Abstract :
REPRESENTATION OF SEX BEHAVIOUR IN THE NOVEL ?SWASTIKA?
WORK OF MAYA WULAN
Globalization have impact on lifestyle changes adopted to the bleak western
cultural tastes of clothing, tastes in music, promiscuity, to the direction of sex
behavior. Free sex is to understand where a person can or want to have sex with
whomever he/she wants, or on the basic consensual.The theme of sex is still the hot
issues among the writers, so it means a lot of writers who make free sex-themed
novel. Included in the novel SWASTIKA. The study aims to determine how the
representation of free sex behavior depicted in the novel Swastika with research
leksia exist in the entire text using a novel approach of roland barthes?s semiotic
The theory used is roland barthes semiotic theory that divides the signal and
reference to five code reading : Semik code , Simbolik Code, Proaretik code, and Gnomik
code Conclusion of this research is how a young woman who ones difines freedom in
the search for identity that ultimately it destroys her future and create a lifetime of
regret.
Keywords: Representation, Free sex behaviour, Novel, Swastika