ผีเสื้อ ความอุจจาร และการเปรียบเทียบเชิงอุปลักษณ์ในนวนิยายเรื่อง กีฏมนตรา/The Butterfly, The Abject, and Metaphor in Novel Keetamontra

Abstract

          This article aim to analysis the meaning of the butterfly in novel Ketamontra by Mokemungmueang. The key concepts that are used for this study are ecocriticisim and abject concept. This paper is devised two issues are the butterfly as metaphor human and the butterfly as the abject. The results are: the butterfly is the sign of metaphor characters. In novel characters as the butterfly that try cast the ugly skin. It means to both internal and external ugly. In addition to it is the sign of female and erotic as the abject. This sign is represented by Keetaya, the artificial prion, who is made from cells of butterfly. She exposes dark side in mind of people and become as the abject which erode them mind until they vomit the past. The past is the other of own although it was a part of them life. In sum the butterfly in this novel is the sign of exposing dark side in the mind of human.