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compared the other princess like Cinderella versus Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games movie and Beauty and the Beast versus Bella Swan from Twilight
movie using gender role theory. The second journal that the writer found is from University of Indonesia.
The writer is Anniza Rizkita Mulia Putri. The journal entitled Analysis of Woman’s Roles and Stereotypes, is discussed about the role of Princess Merida
and her mother, Queen Elinor which have more power than King Fergus in Brave movie. This research is using feminism method in analyzing the movie. The
difference from this journal and the writer’s thesis is, in Anniza journal, she analyzed Princess Merida’s gender role and stereotype as a woman in general, not
as a princess. She does not mention that Princess Merida was different with another Disney’s princesses. Besides in this thesis, the writer tells Princess Merida
difference with other Disney’s classic princesses with mentioning what are the differences. Also, in this research, the writer will use representation theory and
character theory to help the writer seeing how princess represented in the movie.
B. Character and Characterization
1. Character
When we talk about characters in our analyses of movies, we should consider it as beings have discernible traits, habits, and dispositions and as formal
elements that help develop the story and stories cannot exist if character is missing.
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It means that character is very important in the story either it is narrative, like novel and short story, and film. In the story, a character is a person
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Richard Barsam, Looking At Movies: An Introduction To Film Third Edition London: W.W. Norton Company Inc., 2010, p. 134
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created for a work of fiction.
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The story will not work without any figure on it, because the story must tells about somebody, or something. It means that a
character’s presence plays a big role in the story. Character in the story must have some habits or attitude that made us
interested in analyzing them. In the movie, if we are interested with the characters, means that there are possibilities that we will interest to watch the movie until the
end, that is why character plays a big role in the story. According to Barsam
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, character divided into three; 1 Round and Flat character, 2 Major and Minor
marginal character, and 3 Protagonist and Antagonist character. Round character are complex and three dimensional character, they are
unpredictable. Their attitude is different from the beginning of the story until the end. They can surprise us in convincing way. Otherwise, flat character is one
dimensional character. Their action and motivation is predictable and their attitude does not change until the end of the story.
Major character is the most important character in the plot because he or she makes the most things happen or most things happen to them in the story.
Major character can be either a protagonist or antagonist. Protagonist is the central figure in the story and sometimes referred as a hero, but the hero can be good or
bad. It depends on who heshe struggles with. Besides, minor character plays a less important role in the overall movie. His function is only to make the movie’s
plot going forward or to fleshing out the motivations of the major characters.
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Jane Bachman Gordon and Karen Kuehner, Fiction The Elements of the Short Story, Columbus: Mc. Graw Hill, 1999, p. 95
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Barsam, pp. 134-138
