In this research, the writer analyzes the personality structure of the main character in Catch Me If You Can Movie. The writer carefully analyzes the main character by using the theory of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis, which focuses on the structure of the personality, Id, Ego and Superego. Praise be to Allah SWT, the Lord of the Universe, Alhamdulillah, with His amazing guidance, the writer can accomplish the process of making this thesis.
According to Wellek and Warren, the psychology of literature can mean the psychological study or study of the writer as a type and individual. In addition, in this case, the writer is motivated to analyze the main character Frank in Catch Me If You Can, in which the writer notices that he has a psychological problem. In addition, the writer hopes that this research will help in the understanding of the study of literary studies, especially the theory of psychoanalysis in the faculty of Adab.
The writer analyzes the psychological problem of the protagonist in that film using Freud's theory of psychoanalysis. This qualitative research puts the writer as the main tool in collecting data by carefully watching Catch Me If You Can so that he can understand the scenes or the main character. And the writer also gathers some related data by writing down some dialogues from the movie and taking some snapshots of the scenes that support the investigation.
INTRODUCTION
- Background of the study
- Focus of the Study
- Research question
- Objective and Significance of the Research
- Methodology of the Research
- Method of the research
- Data Analysis
- Instrument of the Research
- Unit of Analysis
- Place and Time
The third research is "The Analysis of Renato's Structure of Personality in Malena Movie" by Sulaiman. From this time on, Frank tried to dilute the money in the bank with the checking account given to his father. Frank was very sad and upset when he learned that his father had died and his mother was married to another person.
On his birthday, he did not want to bother his father, because he exposed the business problems. In image nine, Frank tried to withdraw money from the blank bank check his father had received and changed the names and year. In this scene, Frank gave the message to his father that he has already become a pilot:
Why would she do that to you?” Frank felt stress for the second time when Frank heard his mother marry another man, he was disappointed, sad and depressed.
THEORITICAL FRAMEWORK
Previous Research
The concept first described the main character and then combined Sigmund Freud's theory of personality structure into the story. The second and the third describe the characterization of both main objects using the Sigmund Freud theory. Rabbiatul and Sulaiman give a broad description of characterization, which is of great importance to the writer's thesis.
The reason why the writer chose Freud's theory is to prove that it is the most suitable one that can explain the mental development of any human character. The story in Catch Me If You Can starring Leonardo Dicaprio as Frank Abagnale is a unique personality problem, so the theory the writer uses to observe the story is Sigmund Freud's Psychoanalysis of Personality Structure. However, applying Sigmund Freud's theory of personality structure requires an analysis of the inner story element.
The writer takes Freud's theory of psychoanalysis as a reference to analyze the character of Frank Abagnale.
Sigmund Freud’s of Psychoanalysis theory
- Id
- Ego
- Superego
However, that changed when his father became involved in a tax evasion case that bankrupted the business and his parents no longer faced each other. So his father had an idea and brought Frank to the clothing store to buy suits. Arriving at the bank, the Bank's loan officer did not give his father a loan because his father did not have a job and the officer knew that Frank's father was bankrupt.
Frank thought that a respected profession and a lot of money would make him respected by people, just like his father before bankruptcy. Frank also forced his father to invite his mother to go on vacation with a new car. After his father died and his mother married another man, Frank began to think logically.
Frank began to feel a big difference in his life since his father went bankrupt. His father felt that his son did not deserve to celebrate a birthday, just make pancakes and nothing special. Earlier, Frank already knew that the mother was having an affair, but Frank deliberately did not tell his father to avoid big problems.
In this scene, Dick Kesner told Frank to choose who he lived with, his father or his mother. Frank was very interested in the profession of a uniformed and authoritative pilot. considers a high profession and has a lot of money will make himself respected as his father figure before bankruptcy. Frank wants his father and mother not to be divorced and to go back to being happy like at the beginning of the story.
However, as he realizes that his father had died and his mother married another person, he becomes upset and disappointed because he has no soul at all. To end Frank's criminal activities is a way to protect himself from the traumatic situation when he loses his father figure.
RESEARCH FINDINGS
Character of Frank
He was a good boy, obeyed his parents and Frank is the figure of a child who does not like to complain to his parents. One day, when Frank's father was out of work, he brought Frank to American banks to borrow money. When the main character enters his new school, he is treated badly by some of the students, Bradd, at his new school.
While in the classroom, he saw Bradd in the same class as him, and the teacher was not randomly in the classroom. So Frank took a chance by pretending to be a teacher because no one knows him at his new school. When he got home, Frank was very shocked and saddened to hear about his parents' divorce.
Frank who used to live in dignity and harmonious family and now his parents separated due to money problem. Frank tried another plan, he was interested in the profession of a pilot, because uniformed and authoritative. However, Frank's wish was not easy for his father to achieve because his parents had divorced.
But Frank did not give up with great ability to make money, Frank promised that his. Then Frank began to think about another profession, and finally he changed it and soon became a doctor, a fake doctor. With the help of an FBI agent, Carl Hanratty, Frank was allowed to move to an American prison because Frank is a citizen of America.
At the end of the story, Frank accepts the offer of the FBI government to help them deal with the crime of Fraud. Frank felt that he could not continue to be a criminal who was always chasing the police and FBI.
Frank’s Structure of Personality
In the picture above, the main character understands what happened to his family, that they are no longer rich, which forces Frank to his Superego. Unknowingly, Frank brings the authority figure of his father to people who are honorable and good at lying to trick people at school. Thus, Frank's superego was no longer looked at from the side of the heart because he was overcome with anger and wanted to take revenge by pretending to be the French language because there was no real teacher at the time.
From the dialogue above, Frank tried to explain his reason why he wanted to be a substitute teacher to brad's answer and shame, the students who bothered him, with his power to become a teacher. Furthermore, the dialogue above shows Dick Kesner, a lawyer, wanting to say to him sincerely, "Now I want you to leave your things here and follow me into the next room okay?" that his parents were going to divorce. The dialogue above shows that Frank didn't have a choice and cheat of reckless behavior, as Frank ran away from home because he needed money to survive and tried to think of a way to save his broken family.
Frank's structure personality explains that I would act candidly. so, because he started to realize the situation and started to worry because he didn't have the money. It was explained from the post above that Frank did not run because of his desire. But it's meant to do something that could save his family from being broken and rich again: "I'm going to get it all back now". he is going to have a lot of money and start his family.
From this condition, it seemed that Ego's efforts could fulfill his Id's wishes to make a lot of money and save his family. Increasingly unrestrained psychological state because he felt he no longer knew what to do to save his family. Carl, after Frank's job as a con artist that caused a few banks in America to suffer a financial loss.
Frank tries to struggle, Frank didn't want to get himself caught by FBI because his mission is not complete to reunite his family. This forced Frank to follow the ID of his natural desires to reunite his family, so frankly sacrificed Ego that must keep him from committing a crime and Superego to realize that the way he did to his mother and making dad happy is wrong. As a result, after analyzing the movie, the author finds that the main character of Catch Me If You Can, Frank Abagnale, is the effect of his parents' divorce.
As the government confiscates his business for not paying taxes, Frank's father becomes less respected, powerless, and losing money.
CONCLUSSION AND SUGGESTION
SUGGESTION
From the film's main character above, the writer suggests viewers to observe his struggle more deeply, why he wants to be a con man.
