scholarly journals Dysfunctional american dream reflected in arthur miller’s death of a salesman

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivana Nabilah Qoriroh Mujahidah ◽  
Agista Nidya Wardani
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
American Dream ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Research Paradigm ◽  
Arthur Miller ◽  
Mimetic Theory ◽  
Death Of A Salesman ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

The research aims to find the dysfunctional American Dreams; the causes of dysfunctional American Dreams and the effects of dysfunctional American Dreams experienced by the main character, Willy Lowman, as a representation of American society.This paper is examined by applying descriptive qualitative research paradigm which is naturally interpretative. Thus, the key instrument is the researcher herself who has the authority in managing and analyzing the data, and certainly producing meaning in the process of discussion and interpretations. Moreover, to facilitate her in collecting and identifying the data, she used supporting instrument in the form of table. This study, theoretically, applied the mimetic theory as the research approach.The researcher found that Arthur Miller uses the character of Willy Loman to represent the failure of the American Dream. Willy’s quest for the American Dream leads to his failure because throughout his life he pursues the illusion of the American Dream and not the reality of it. The unachievable part of Willy’s view of the American Dream is perfection. He has subordinated by the capitalism in which Willy belongs to the proletariat where his dream is a utopia.  HIGHLIGHTS: The character of Willy Lowman represented the failure of American Dream because throughout his life he pursues the illusion of American Dream. Some misperceptions of American Dream have made Willy living in utopia and committing a suicide. The study represented that not all Americans or immigrants have the same perception of the American Dreams and not all of them can reach the dreams

scholarly journals Indirect Speech Act of Spongebob Squarepants the Movie

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 203-206
Author(s):  
Ima Frafika Sari
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Domain Analysis ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Indirect Speech ◽  
Know How ◽  
Indirect Speech Acts ◽  
Indirect Speech Act ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

Direct and indirect speech acts are the two types of speech acts. This study aims to know how indirect speech acts are employed in the movie "SpongeBob SquarePants." It employs descriptive qualitative research to explain the main character's speech act types. There is currently a scarcity of studies examining speech act types in cartoon or animation films; yet, it is necessary. According to this study, the result of this article is: first, there are seventy-four discussions of indirect speech acts obtained from all characters in the movie SpongeBob SquarePants. Each dialogue in the film SpongeBob SquarePants can be deduced to reveal the meaning of indirect speech acts. Second, The reader can use the domain analysis indirect speech acts summary to help them understand each dialogue in this movie that has a different meaning. This stage permitted the main characters to say literal things to the listener. The main character did not make a difficult-to-understand statement to the listener. This research looks at Yule's theory's utterances of indirect speech activities. As a result, the outcome differed from the prior study, despite the same issue.

scholarly journals THE ANALYSIS OF SEMIOTICS IN “THE MAIN CHARACTER OF RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON FILM”

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-64
Author(s):  
Karta Atmaja
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Moral Value ◽  
Qualitative Research Method ◽  
Walt Disney ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This research is aimed to find the signs then interpret the meaning of signs in Raya and the last dragon film. This film is the first Walt Disney project that was inspired by Southeast Asian cultures especially Indonesia. The design of the study is a semiotics approach by using Charles Sander Peirce’s theory. The type of research is a descriptive qualitative research method. The signs are collected, reduced, classified with Object Triadic; Icon, Index and Symbol then find the Interpretant through correlation between Representamen and Object. There are 30 signs found in the research. The meaning of the sign is divided into two categories, namely the meaning is appropriate with the story and the rest have representation about cultures. From the research of this film we can conclude a moral value: trust and togetherness and also pride about Southeast Asian cultures especially Indonesia can be shown abroad.

scholarly journals Study on the Changing Connotation of the American Dream in Death of a Salesman

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. p56
Author(s):  
Shuaiqi Chen
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
American Dream ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Revolutionary War ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Arthur Miller ◽  
Death Of A Salesman

Arthur Miller is considered one of the greatest American playwrights of the twentieth century. His masterpiece—Death of a Salesman—tells a tragic story about an ordinary American and chronicles the changing connotation of the American dream. The American dream originates from the puritan spirit, develops in the Revolutionary war and distorts as society changed. The essay attempts to reveal the changing connotation of the American dream reflected in this play by analyzing the representative character portrayed by Miller. On the basis of a better understanding of the play, the great influence of values in different time, such as the American dream, on ordinary people are expected to be learned.

NEGATIVE POLITENESS STRATEGIES USED BY MAIN CHARACTER IN “THE IMITATION GAME”

IdeBahasa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-92
Author(s):  
Julius ◽  
Ambalegin Ambalegin
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
General Rule ◽  
The Other ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Imitation Game ◽  
Alan Turing ◽  
Politeness Strategies ◽  
Participatory Method ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This research aims to find out types of negative politeness strategies expressed by the main character in the movie titled The Imitation Game. This research is categorised as descriptive qualitative research. The data of the research were taken from utterances identified as negative politeness strategies by the main character “Alan Turing” and analysed with theory proposed by (Brown & Levinson, 1988). Data were collected using the observation and non-participatory method. Additionally, to analyse the data, pragmatic identity method were used. The result discovered in this research are; 5 be conveniently indirect, 16 question and hedge, 1 be pessimistic,   6 give deference, 4 impersonalise interlocutors, and 4 state the FTA as the general rule, totalling to 36 indication of negative politeness strategies. Question and hedge became the most frequently used strategy the main character tends to assume unwillingness to comply to the other characters in The Imitation Game movie.

scholarly journals ANALYSIS ON PRAGMATIC FORCE OF DECLARATIVE UTTERANCES IN FILM ENTITLED “AVATAR”

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Eko Widianto ◽  
Suparno Suparno ◽  
Teguh Sarosa
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Illocutionary Force ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

<p>This is a descriptive qualitative research. The data sources are thevmanuscript and video of “Avatar” film. From the sources, the researcher takes 40 declarative utterances uttered by the main character (Jake Sully) to be analyzed. The research goals are 1) to identify the contexts of declarative utterances, 2) to identify the hearer’s responses of declarative utterances, 3) to explain the pragmatic force of declarative utterances viewed from the illocutionary force. Before define the force, the researcher explains the context for a better understanding about the speaker’s intention. The results of this research are, 1) every utterance has its own context: situation, participants, ends, act sequence, key, instrumentalities, norms, and genre, 2) the hearer’s responses are words response and act response, 3) utterance’s function reflects the pragmatic force, those 40 declarative utterances bring various forces; suggesting, appointing, reporting, requesting, claiming, thanking, asking, complaining, apologizing, confirming, blaming, ordering, advising, and sentencing.</p>

scholarly journals WOMAN VIOLENCE AND RESISTANCE IN “SWEAT” SHORT STORY BY ZORA NEALE HURSTON: FEMINIST APPROACH

JURNAL BASIS ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 249
Author(s):  
Noviana Osinta Bere ◽  
Tomi Arianto
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Zora Neale Hurston ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Sexual Form ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

Zora Neale Hurston’s short story is a story of women with different perspective. This revealed the violence toward women and women’s resistance toward the construction of patriarchal. The violence was shown by a husband toward his wife in psychological, physical and sexual form. The theory used   Beauvoir‘s theory (2012). The researcher analyzed the problem in feminist approach. Women who experience oppression took the resistance as a form of struggle over their existence as women. It was reflected toward the main character in this short story. This descriptive qualitative research was used in this short story. This method was used for looking at data contexts that were hidden from quotations in a short story. The findings showed that Delia was able to resist her husband named Sykes. Delia sought her freedom by escaping the scandal the cruel treatment of her husband. Delia’s action contradicted with patriarchal construction that women had to be submissive and respectful towards men due to the women basically were dependent on men. Feminism appeared in this short story was concerned on women’s resistance toward violence experienced in social life in order to get freedom, rights and opportunities as a human.

scholarly journals SELF-CONCEALMENT IN JEAN WEBSTER’S DADDY LONG LEGS

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Fania Hasri Fitranti ◽  
Mamik Tri Wedawati
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Defense Mechanism ◽  
The Self ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Johari Window ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This research studied the self-concealment of the main character in Daddy Long Legs novel. It is aimed at identifying self-concealment through the main character’s Johari Windows. This research also described fear of self-disclosure. The method used is descriptive-qualitative research This analysis is collaborating the concept of self-concealment with Johari Window. The results showed, Judy Abbott, the main character does self-concealment which is identified by the most dominated hidden area in her Johari Window which is including fear of self-disclosure. By comparing with previous self-concealment analysis in some literary studies, it is found that self-concealment is connected with queerness, deception, and either repression or suppression defense mechanism.

scholarly journals The Speech Act of Cartoon Movie: Spongebob Squarepants’ The Movie

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 126
Author(s):  
Ima Frafika Sari
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Similarity Data ◽  
Speech Act Analysis ◽  
The Way ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This research aims to reveal: the types of speech acts used by the main character in “Spongebob Squarepants’ the movie and the previous studies in speech act analysis for knowing the way of the directives of speech act appears. It employed descriptive qualitative research in the explaining of speech acts types used by the main character. There is still a lack of research about the analysis of speech act categories in cartoon movie or animation movie, it is substantial to be carried out. The finding of this research is the directives speech act is the most frequently in SpongeBob SquarePants the movie with data 118 or 44,36% from a total of 266 or 100% of the whole data. Then, the similarity data found in the three journals about analysis of speech act with data that the directives speech act is the highest utterance in a cartoon movie.

scholarly journals Directive acts uttered by main character in I care a lot movie

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-244
Author(s):  
Fanny Virginia ◽  
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Ambalegin Ambalegin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Pragmatic Competence ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Observational Method ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This descriptive qualitative research essentially aimed at exploring the types of directive acts uttered by the main character in I Care a Lot movie. The data were taken from utterances of directive acts uttered by Marla as the main character. It was analyzed by applying the types of directive acts theory carried out by Searle (1979). The method of collecting the data was the observational method and non-participatory technique. Furthermore, pragmatic identity method and pragmatic competence- in equalizing were conducted to analyze the data. The results revealed that there were 15 utterances of directive acts uttered by the main character in I Care a Lot movie. There were 5 data showed asking, 4 data showed ordering, 3 data showed permitting, 1 data showed advising, 1 data showed requesting, and 1 data showed inviting. The type of asking became the commonly produced type because the main character frequently asked questions to other characters in I Care a Lot movie.

scholarly journals Commodification of media in helping public relations performance in the regional development sector in Indonesia

2022 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zulfiah Larisu ◽  
Leila Mona
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Development Communication ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Communication Approach ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

Indonesia is referred to as a multicultural country, so the context of the multicultural country that is built is based on ethnicity, race, religion, groups and not customary groups where the placement of customs is part of the process of formulating public policies. This means that the context of life in the Indonesian state is multikulepresion or a country consisting of various kinds of differences. Therefore, to build good relations, it is necessary to build multicultural communication, especially in any media in supporting development in various regional sectors in Indonesia. The purpose of this paper is to describe commodification of media in helping public relations performance in the regional development sector in Indonesia: multicultural communication humanization. This research is descriptive qualitative research with ethnographic communication approach. Processing of data through the process of collecting, collecting, selecting, and presenting. The analysis technique uses communication interpretation. The results of the study indicate that development communication includes; (1) multicultural as the main character of the Indonesian nation; (2) dimensions of development through media; (3) humanization and societies in the regional development sector in Indonesia.

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