Novia Gratiwi, Rasiah, & Muarifuddin Page 1 of 13 Volume 1 Issue 1 June, 2021 E-ISSN 2797-8117 GOLDILOCKS AND THE BEAR: TRANSFORMATION OF FAIRY TALES AND POLITICAL CODES Novia Gratiwi 1,4 , Rasiah 2 , Muarifuddin 3 1,2,3 Department of Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities, Halu Oleo University 4 Corresponding Author: email: novia.gratiwi2020@gmail.com Abstract Goldilocks and The Bear is a novel transformed from The Story of the Three Bears and Aladdin and Magic Lamp fairy tales. The novel presents a non-linear plot since it mixed up the plot and characters from those fairy tales as its hypo-grams. The process of the mixture is surely not merely innovation, but it has a politic code appeared in it. This study is investigating the transformation of the fairy tales into the novel, and entails the political code behind it. Hutcheon‘s concept of poetics and politics of postmodernism is used to display the novel through its double sides; its structure (as well as its contexts) and ideological sphere. This study suggests that the novel is using and distorting in the fairy tales through the women characters; Goldilocks named Victoria, a new women character Safiyya, Bear male as Ramsey as representation of white male, and Aladdin as dark-skinned man. The composition of the characters actually represented political codes of gender and white supremacy in Western narrative. It is legitimating and subverting the narrative representation of women and dark skinned people who used to be placed as marginal people in the western society. The novel, reversibly, raised other possibility that those peripheral characters (women and blacks) can be competed with central character (men and whites). The narrative text of Goldilocks and the Bear displayed the reconstruction of women and black characters that used to be depicted in negative label in literature and cultural product, especially in Western representation. Keywords: Fairy Tale, Novel, Politic, Postmodernism, Tranformation INTRODUCTION It is undeniable that many contemporary literary works in the form of novels and films, which appear today, are the result of adaptation or transformation from fairy tales. Let say, the three Brothers Grimms‘ fairy tales; Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty, and Rapunzel have been adapted and become the inspiration of the writing contemporary novels and films, comics and another media in various segments. In Indonesia, the transformation or adaptation of fairytales into the novel or film can be found in Nyi Dasima, Ande-Ande Lumut, Bawang Putih Bawang Merah, Legenda Tangkuban Perahu, and Malin Kundang. They adapted the old stories to the contemporary spectacle, not only to adjust the audiences‘ tastes of the present era for commercial profit, but also to critize the specific