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about a character, the things that the other characters say often give the reader clue to a character’s characterization. 6 Reaction is a clue to a
characterization by letting the reader understand how the character reacts to various situations and events. sometimes helps the character to reveal its
characterization from how it react towards something that happen. 7 The easiest way to make characterization of a character is by the author simply
mention the characterization directly in their novel. 8 Characterization also comes from the way they think. 9 The last way is mannerism, where the
reader can analyze the character from its habit or mode of behavior pp. 161- 173.
2. Psychological Approach
Literature is not something that can be analyzed by counting the data or using an interview - it’s not possible because sometimes the researcher of a
particular literature had passed away. The researcher finds that there are several approaches that can be used to analyze literary work. One of them is called
Critical Approach from Rohberger and Woods 1971. Critical approach has several branches of its own. Rohberger and Woods elaborate critical approach
into five other approaches. Those are formalist approach, biographical approach, sociocultural-historical approach, mythopoeic approach, and psychological
approach p. 3-15. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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This problem of this study is focusing on the interpersonal conflicts between Joy and Sadness and the meaning of their interpersonal conflicts delivered from
the film screenplay. The conflicts triggered by their inside needs that can not be fulfilled easily because the existence of others. The screenplay gives clue that
each character has their own needs with different ways on fulfilling their needs. For that reason, psychological approach is being used to analyze the matters
between Joy and Sadness through psychological point of view. According to Rohberger and Woods 1971, psychological approach is involving the effort of
the character to locate and demonstrate certain recurrent patterns. Moreover, psychological approach can also help the readers understand about the thoughts
of the character and its behavior p. 13. Guerin 2011 adds that psychology approach is a psychology interpretation which afford many profound clues
toward solving a work’s thematic and symbolic mysteries p. 201.
3. Personality Theory Sigmund Freud
When talking about character, personality will be discussed as it will be seen in character’s behavior. Freud 1927 states in his book The Id and The Ego that
in every movement of a person, including what they think and what they do are possible to happen consciously or unconsciously. The division of the physical
into what is conscious and what is unconscious is the fundamental premiss of psycho-analysis; and it alone makes it possible for psycho-analysis to understand
the pathological processes in mental life p. 2. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
