AN ANALYSIS OF GRENOUILLE’S STRUGGLE TO GET HIS
AMBITION IN FILM
PERFUME “THE STORY OF A MURDERER”
BY TOM TYKWER
THESIS
This thesis is submitted to meet the requirements to achieve Sarjana Degree
in English Education
Written By:
HAPPY SEPTIAN RIZAL NUANSA
(07360164)
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
This thesis written by Happy Septian Rizal Nuansa was approved on August 1, 2012.
By
Advisor I, Advisor II,
This thesis was defended in front of the examiners of the Faculty of Teacher
Training and Education of University of Muhammadiyah Malang
and accepted as one of the requirements to achieve
Sarjana Degree in English Education
on August 1, 2012.
Approved by:
Faculty of Teacher Training and Education
University of Muhammadiyah Malang
Dean,
Dr. M. Syaifuddin, M.M
Examiner: Signatures:
1. Dr. Sri Hartiningsih, M.M 1.____________
2. Puji Sumarsono, M.Ed 2. ____________
3. Drs. Jarum, M.Ed 3. ____________
MOTTO AND DEDICATION
“Life is about the struggles”
“Hard work is always bring satisfying result.”
“Sesungguhnya sesudah kesulitan itu ada
kemudahan” (Qs. Al-Insirakh: 6)
I dedicated this thesis to:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Bismillahirrahhmanirrahim Assalammu’alaikum Wr. Wb.
Alhamdulilllah, all his grateful prays are praised to Allah SWT, the Almighty and
The Most Merciful, for His gift to the writer in finishing the thesis. His prosperous
pray is also up to our prophet, Muhammad SAW, who is the best leader to obey and
also the best apostle to convince.
He would like to express his deep appreciation and gratitude to Drs. Jarum, M.Ed
and Drs. Adiloka, M.Pd, his supervisors, for their patience, willingness and
invaluable guidance as well as suggestion for the completion of this thesis.
He dedicated his deepest and whole hearted gratitude to his beloved mother, Sri
Masdiati, for her endless love, hard work and prays until the end of time and to her
sister, Imtias for the disturbance and the troubles and also all of his family who
always support him until the end.
He also would like to thank his dad for his love and pray and for giving her worth
experience in his life.
His deepest and special thank goes to all his best friends of 3.5 Community of
UMM whose names cannot be mentioned here one by one. May God bless him.
Wassalamualaikum. Wr. Wb.
The Researcher,
AN ANALYSIS OF GRENOUILLE’S STRUGGLE TO GET HIS AMBITION IN FILM PERFUME “THE STORY OF A MURDERER” BY TOM TYKWER
ABSTRACT
Novel, poetry, short story, and drama are parts of literary works. By learning them, we can take the messages about the life in the stories; since literature is a picture of human’s life that is written with beautiful language and interesting style. Film is a part of literary work that has the story about human’s life and experience. And also film is a good media to deliver the message of the life. It has a lot of interesting aspects that we could learn from film, one of them is the struggle that done by the main character, Grenouille.
The main purpose of this study is to answer the problems. (1) Why did Grenouille struggle to get his ambition? (2) How did Grenouille struggle to get his ambition? (3) What were the effects of Grenouille’s struggle?
This study uses descriptive because the object of the study is film which is rich with description of the people, place, action, and dialogue. And the approach used in the study is objective approach, because the researcher did not study about anything related about author’s life. Furthermore, the data are taken from script and screenshot of the Perfume “The Story of a Murderer” film by Tom Tykwer.
The result of analysis found that (1) Grenouille struggled to get his ambition because he was interested in the perfume and the scent of a girl. (2) There are two ways of struggle that Grennouille did; the first was physical struggles when Grenouille learned about preservation and his series of murder to collect the scent of the girl, and the second was mental struggles when Grenouille showed his patience to Baldini and felt the regret of himself. (3) The effects that Grenouille caused after doing his struggle was satisfaction from himself because his ambition was fulfilled and fear for the people of Grasse.
The Advisor 1, The Writer,
TABLE OF CONTENTS
2.4.1 Story ………. 12
CHAPTER IV: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION 4.1 Research Findings ... 24
4.1.1 The Reason of Struggle ... 24
4.1.2 Grenouille’s Struggle ... 27
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
In this chapter, the writer presents about the background for conducting the
research. It is includes the background of study, statements of the problems, purposes
of the study, significance of the study, scope and limitation, and definition of key
terms.
1.1Background of Study
Literature is very interesting to discuss because there are so many literary works
around the world. Also, literary works is interesting because it is an expression of
human’s thought, feeling, and experience written in form of poetry, novel, and drama.
Literature is the expression of written works, especially those regarded as having
artistic style. Literature describes the emotion of the writers, it represents their
feelings. Literature has a function as a tool for expressing ideas, concepts, and
thoughts. It also becomes the reflection of someone’s personality. So, it is true that
literature is one of the important parts of human’s life. Literature and human beings
cannot be separated each other because they are interrelated.
According to Rob Pope (2005:60), literature has become narrowed in meaning to
its current dominant sense of creative or imaginative writing of a specifically
aesthetic kind. It means that literature contains very high sense of art, which is very
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There are some literary works which can be elaborated into deep analysis. There
are three genres of literature; they are prose, including novel and short story, poetry,
and drama. Drama, also known as a play, is one of the literary works which contains
dialogues presented by the actors or actresses on the stage in front of the audience.
Pfister (1988) and Chatman (1990), in “A Guide to the Theory of Drama by Manfred
Jahn”, point out that drama is a narrative form that represents or ‘tells’ a story,
sometimes literally so. It means that drama is a show that performs about the dialogue
of a story and happens in a certain setting. Film is a part of drama because it contains
dialogue, setting, and story.
Film is also the happening story in time, (Pamusuk Eneste, 1991:16). This means
that film is the combinations of some situations connected each other and create a
story. With a lot of improvisation, the director could make a film able to arouse the
emotion of the viewers. Also, film will show how people act, behave, and manner.
Film is a part of the drama, one of the literary works. It contains many valuable
lessons, messages, and entertainments. The readers can learn and take many valuable
things through the film related to the problems in daily life. Film always gives
interesting and different story to the viewers. In relation to this study, the film entitled
Perfume “The Story of a Murderer”, directed by Tom Tykwer in 2006 and based on a
best-selling 1985 novel from Patrick Suskind, is analyzed because it is one of good
example film which tells interesting story. Ben Whishaw as Jean-Baptiste Grenouille
struggled to get his ambition to preserve the smell of woman in order to create the
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Considering the above background, the writer wants to conduct a literary study
with title “Grenouille’s Struggle to get his Ambition in Perfume “The Story of a
Murderer””, in which it has some lessons for the reader, especially about principles
of life. As we know that people cannot live without struggling in the world, but
struggle to get everything we want without considering the effect to another and
ourselves is improper.
1.2Statements of the Problem
1. Why did Grenouille struggle to get his ambition?
2. How did Grenouille struggle to get his ambition?
3. What were the effects of Grenouille’s struggle?
1.3Purposes of the Study
1. To explain why Grenouille struggled to get his ambition.
2. To describe how Grenouille struggled to get his ambition.
3. To explain the effects of Grenouille’s struggle.
1.4Significance of the Study
This study is expected to provide a description of the important knowledge about
human being, especially when the readers face the same situation in their life. So, it
can be used by the readers to anticipate a situation that may happen in their life. The
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It is also able to be used as source of information and reference for students and
lecturers of English Department who are interested in analyzing the literary works,
especially film.
1.5Scope and Limitation
The scope of this study is Grenouille’s struggles to get his ambition and the
limitations are the reason why Grenouille struggled to get his ambition, the way how
Grenouille struggled, and to know the effects of Grenouille’s struggles.
1.6Definition of Key Terms
a. Struggle is an act of struggling; to put a great effort on something.
b. Ambition is a strong desire to do or achieve something.
c. Film is a story or event recorded by a camera as a series of moving images
and shown in cinema or on television.
d. Perfume “The Story of a Murderer” is a film directed by Tom Tykwer in
2006 and based on a best-selling 1985 novel from Patrick Suskind.
e. Grennouile is a main character of the film Perfume “The Story of a
Murderer”.
