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AN ANALYSIS OF INFERIORITY FEELING FACED BY OLIVER
TWIST IN ROMAN POLANSKI
’S FILM “
OLIVER TWIST
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THESIS
BY:
WINAROH ANDANI
07360072
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
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AN ANALYSIS OF INFERIORITY FEELING FACED BY
OLIVER TWIST IN ROMAN POLANSKI
’S FILM
“
OLIVER TWIST
”
THESIS
This thesis is submitted to meet one of the requirements to achieve
Sarjana Degree in English Education
BY:
WINAROH ANDANI
07360072
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
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This thesis written by Winaroh Andani was approved on October 24th, 2012.
By:
Advisor I, Advisor II,
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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 October 24th, 2012
Approved by:
Faculty of Teacher Training and Education University of Muhammadiyah Malang
Dean,
Dr. M. Syaifuddin, M. M
Examiners: Signatures:
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Alhamdulillah, all praise be to Allah SWT, the Merciful and Charitable. Because of the guidance, blessing and affection, the writer can finish this thesis.
The writer would like to express her deepest gratitude to Rina Wahyuni Setyaningrum, M. Ed, her first advisor and Dian Inayati, M. Ed, her second advisor, for their suggestions, valuable guidance and advice during the consultation period, and their comments and corrections during the completion of this thesis.
The writer’s sincere gratitude and appreciation are also extended to certain people who really helped her in conducting this thesis. First of all, to her lecturers in English Department who gave her precious suggestion and guidance in conducting this thesis. Also to her friends who support her in conducting this thesis, they are Dana, Mia, Tya, Ciezka, and Bebeb Iman
Finally, a special thank goes to her beloved mother (Umi Rumyati), The deceased of father (Muhammad Sutrisno), brother (Prasetyo), Mami, all of her best friends in Amelia Kost (Dewi, Ayufredy, Mia, Mba Mey, Mas Den and Melinda), the helpful person Kris Subargo P, and her special someone (R.Widho Widhaswara S.E) and family for their encouragement, love, care, and pray so that the writer can finish this thesis.
Malang, October 2012
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MOTTO AND DEDICATION
“Take the good thing of every bad thing happens”
“Don’t say that you can, but prove that you can”
By: Andhani
DEDICATION:
I dedicated this thesis to:
My beloved parents, I really want to see both of you happy
My beloved Aii, brother, and big family
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CHAPTER II: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 2.1 Literature ... 8
2.2 Film ... 9
2.3 The Similarities and Differences between Drama and Film ... 10
2.4 Film Genre ... 14
2.5 Element of Film ... 20
2.6 The Concept of Inferiority Feeling ... 24
2.7 Previous Studies on Inferiority Feeling ... 30
CHAPTER III: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 3.1 Research Design... 33
3.2 Approach ... 34
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3.4 Data Collection ... 35
3.5 Data Analysis ... 36
CHAPTER IV: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION 4.1 Findings ... 37
4.1.1 The causes of Oliver Twist’s Inferiority Feeling ... 37
4.1.1.1 Social Disadvantages ... 37
4.1.2 The Effects of Oliver Twist’s Inferiority Feeling on His Life... 42
4.1.2.1 Anxiety Increase ... 42
4.1.2.2 Insecurity Feeling ... 44
4.1.3 The Way Oliver Twists Overcome his Inferiority Feeling ... 45
4.1.3.1 Staying Away from Bad Company ... 45
4.1.3.2 Improving Self...46
4.1.3.3 Getting Support from Mr. Brownlow... 46
4.2 Discussion ... 47
4.3 Lessons ... 49
CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION 5.1 Conclusion ... 50
5.2 Suggestion ... 51
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APPENDIXOLIVER TWIST SYNOPSIS
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ROMAN POLANSKI BIOGRAPHY
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Generation (1955) before studying at the Lodz Film School. His early shorts such as Dwaj ludzie z szafa (1958), The Fat and the Lean (1961), and Mammals (1962) showed his taste for black humor and interest in bizarre human relationships. His feature debut, Knife in the Water (1962), was the first Polish post-war film not associated with the war theme. Though already a major Polish filmmaker Polanski chose to leave the country and headed to France. While down-and-out in Paris, he befriended young scriptwriter, Gérard Brach, who eventually became his long-time collaborator. The next two films, Repulsion (1965) and Cul-de-sac (1966), made in England and co-written by Brach, won Silver and then Golden Bear awards at the Berlin Film Festivals. In 1968, Polanski went to Hollywood, where he made the psychological thriller Rosemary's Baby (1968). However, after the brutal murder of his wife Sharon Tate by the infamous Manson gang in 1969, the director decided to return to Europe. In 1974, he again made a US release: Chinatown (1974). It seemed the beginning of a promising Hollywood career, but after his conviction for the statutory rape of a 13-year old girl, Polanski fled from the USA to avoid prison. After Tess (1979), which was awarded several Oscars and Cesars, his work became intermittent and rarely approached the caliber of his earlier films. He still likes to act in the films of other directors, sometimes with interesting results as in A Pure Formality (1994).
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
This chapter contains background of the study, statement of the problems, purpose of the study, significance of the study, scope and limitation, and definition of key terms. Each section is presented as follows:
1.1Background of the Study
Studying literature is an activity that gives us some new experience because it contains human feelings, human life, love, etc. Stableford (2007:10) states that literature means the production of written works having excellent form of expression and dealing with ideas of permanent interest.
Talking about literature means that we are talking about creative work of art, an object made by human to express their life through language. Writers commonly express what they see and do, even what they feel, and they often convey social condition in literary works. As many writers are inspired by social condition, literature can be said as a portrait of life.
Soepadjar (2000:54) states that literary work is defined as a media or way to express or view toward the condition around human feeling, such as politic, economic, social, and culture. It means that human being and literary work are closely related and cannot be separated each other.
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Scorsese (2002:394) states that films are part of our artistic heritage – some say that film is history. In other words, film as history will show how people live in a certain place, how people think and act to certain things, and show the real life of the society. Film is produced by members of a community, because it is made in a certain period and has a direct relationship with the norms, customs, and social condition which prevail at the moment. It can also be said that film is a sketch of social reality life and it is supported by the behavior of individual with others, which could also describe inferiority feeling.
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personality proposed by Alfred Adler, which emphasizes on the uniqueness of each individual and the processes by which people overcome their limitations and struggle to reach their life goals. From the explanation above, it means that individual psychology seeks to understand how human solve their limitation or sense of inferior by doing some efforts to become superior, perfect or complete in order to achieve their life goal.
In relation to this study, “Oliver Twist” is a 2005 British drama film directed by Roman Polanski and based on a novel by Charles Dickens. This film is interesting because it reflects Roman Polanski's concern for the fate of children in England during the revolution. The children at that time are forced to get down on the streets because of poverty. Now, many children in certain parts of the Third World have similar experience.
“Oliver Twist” film illustrates bad experience on children, particularly on their psychological environment such as in family, neighborhood, workplace, and school. It tells about an orphan who lives in poverty, crime, and suffering. Moreover, it shows the effect on Oliver’s psychology, how Oliver is able to face feelings of personal inferiority in his social life.
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After knowing the film’s case, it was chosen as the subject of the study for some reasons. First, film is a media of communication and education; it can be used as teaching materials in listening subject and pronunciation practice. Second, the events (the story of the film) which can be based on experience or phenomena or imagination can give the audience exploration of human personality, expression, problems and feeling. In film, there are many characters of people and human behavior. It means that film as a mirror of social situation will show what happens in society as a reflection and expression of human characteristic, human mind, feeling happiness, and sorrow. People can learn many things from film because it contains many valuable lessons, messages, and pleasure. By analyzing film, there are several advantages taken from it such as learning how to express something, how to solve problem from the film or even how they can face their life. Fadoli (2011) states that by analyzing film, it will be give us a new knowledge and experience. One advantage from it is we can save the message of film longer in our mind.
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1.2Statement of the Problems
The problems of this study are as follows:
1. What are the causes of Oliver Twist’s inferiority feeling in the film “Oliver Twist” by Roman Polanski?
2. What are the effects of Oliver Twist’s inferiority feeling on his life? 3. How does Oliver Twist overcome his inferiority feeling?
1.3Purpose of the Study
Based on the statement of the problems, the purposes of this study are presented as follows:
1. To know the causes of Oliver Twist’s inferiority feeling in “Oliver Twist” film by Roman Polanski.
2. To describe the effects of Oliver Twist’s inferiority feeling on his life. 3. To explain how Oliver Twist overcomes his inferiority feeling.
1.4Significance of the Study
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Secondly, this study is conducted to give description of the importance of learning human behavior and encouraging student’s motivation to learn literary work especially film. By analyzing inferiority feeling of the main character in “Oliver Twist” film by Roman Polanski, the students can at least learn how to overcome the inferiority feeling in their life, and try to improve the quality of their life by taking lesson from it.
1.5Scope and Limitation of Study
This study is focused on the film “Oliver Twist”. There are several topics that can be analyzed in this film, but this study only focuses on inferiority feeling. In this film, there are also several inferiority feelings faced by some characters. However, the scope of the study isanalyzing the inferiority feeling of the main character only, who is Oliver Twist.
1.6Definition of Key Terms
The definition of key terms in the research is aimed to avoid misunderstanding of the terms which exist in the research. The terms that are necessary to be defined are as follows:
1. Analysis is trying to examine all parts of work in relation to the whole, investigateone aspect or element or part that relates to the whole.
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2. Inferiority Feeling is the highly intensified feeling of a child caused by social disability and he believes that he will never be able to compensate his weakness. (adapted from Frager and Fadiman, 2005:111)
3. Oliver Twist is the main character in “Oliver Twist” film
4. Roman Polanski is a French-Polish film director, producer, writer and actor directing a film “Oliver Twist (2005)”, a story which parallels his own life as a "young boy attempting to triumph over adversity”.
5. Film is a form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images that
