Interpreting Dancing as Symbols of Freedom in Remy Sylado’s Namaku Mata Hari from Its Protagonist Personality

This study interprets the ‘dancing’ as symbols of freedom expressed by a Dutch dancer, Mata Hari (alias Margaretha Geertruida Zelle) in Remy Sylado’s Namaku Mata Hari, a protagonist novel. The data in this study are sentences or paragraphs containing dancing as symbols of freedom. Those sentences or paragraphs were collected by conducting library research through reading carefully the novel Namaku Mata Hari, coding each part of the novel showing the dancing as a symbols of freedom and the role of her id, ego and super ego, classifying data into symbols proposed by Hayek’s (1960) and Hospers’ (1984) theories, and analysing the data simultaneously. The result shows that the dancing as freedom symbols is interpreted in a lot of expressions: dancing expressing her freedom of being life, of taking back her rights, of avoiding Western aesthetic principles, of being peaceful state of mind, of finding her desire, of gaining a deep hypnotic trance, of gaining humanity instead of being prejudice of her nationality, and of avoiding Western civilization..

Interpretation is the attempt to know a meaning that exists in the literary work which is being analyzed. In this process, the readers will try to point out the author's intention in a particular symbol.
Interpretation in the form of comments, analysis, review or critique can be different for every reader because this process can be done in various ways and approaches.
A symbol is usually interpreted by readers with many meanings. These difference interpretations of a symbol will eventually lead to ambiguity because every interpretation seems to have its own reason in choosing a certain meaning. This notion coincides with the definition given by Zhang (1998) (Seidman, 2006) and Cresswell (2012).

A. FINDING AND DISCUSSION
The data are not presented thematically but presented simultaneously like a flowlet it flow. Based on the data analysis, it was found that dancing as the symbols of freedom has been expressed into many The symbol in this novel is in the form of the total action, which is dancing. Mata Hari loves to dance since she was a child as shown in this quotation: "Sejak kecil aku suka menari." -Mata Hari (Sylado, 2011: 38) The "Wat 'n schandaal," katanya sembari menyeret aku dari arena langsung ke bawah. (Sylado, 2011: 50) He insults her of doing so in public area.
He treats her in a mean way and he even takes her rights of doing what she wants, or in the broader sense, he limits her freedom.
It is obvious now that the ego plays the role "as an intermediary between the id and the external world (Freud, 1940 consider the norms of super ego (Freud, 1940). or anything which is socially correct that people got as they are growing up (Freud, 1940). People usually got this system from their parents when they were a child.  (Sylado, 2011: 85) She says explicitly in this quotation that she wants to be like the birds who can sing and dance happily. The id views dancing as its ultimate source of pleasure and freedom, and the ego wants to satisfy this demand.
Her statement afterwards proves that dancing does mean freedom for her.
Manalah mungkin orang menyanyi dan menari ketika orang itu tidak menemukan jalan menuju pembebasan terhadap rasa benci?" (Sylado, 2011: 85) The freedom that she talks about is not only concerns of coercion from other people towards herself but also the freedom from her own feelings. Hospers (1984) argued that "though freedom from the  (Sylado, 2011: 89) The symbol in this quotation is shown by Mata Hari's description of the feelings she got while she is dancing. A symbol is "a word or phrase that signifies an object or event which in its turn signifies something, or has a range of reference, beyond itself" (Abrams, 1999: 311 (Sylado, 2011: 105).
Once again in the quotation above she tells that being there makes her feel her freedom, the feelings that she never gets during her marriage life with Ruud.
Therefore, when Didik asked her if she did not have any intention on coming back to Borobudur again to dance with the people there, she said there is no way she did not want to.
"Rasanya jiwa saya ada di sana," -Mata Hari (Sylado, 2011: 116) "Bagian dinding candi yang melukiskan dua penari itu serasa menjadi bagian dari tubuh saya. "-Mata Hari (Sylado, 2011: 116) " "My dance is a sacred poem in which movement is a word, and whose every word is underlined by music, the gending." -Mata Hari (Sylado, 2011: 473) This final quotation of this essay proves that dancing is a symbol that symbolize something bigger than what it really is as said by Mata Hari herself. It then lies in the process of interpretation of the reader.

B. CONCLUSION
Mata Hari's id wants to obtain as much as pleasure as possible. She believes that one of the ways to get this pleasure is by acquiring her freedom. According to the theories of freedom from Hayek (1960) and Hospers (1984), the term freedom can be defined as a state in which one is free to do everything according to his/her will and plans without any coercion from others.
The coercion here is not only from others' arbitrary will but also from one's own feelings and thoughts. This kind of freedom is often called as personal or individual freedom. Thus, 'freedom' can be defined as only the relation among human beings with its only infringement is the coercion by other human beings (Hayek, 1960).
Hayek focused on the coercion that according to him take away people's right in order to get their freedom.
In addition to the previous definition of freedom, Hospers (1984)