In this research, the writer uses the actantial and functional model to analyze the narrative structure of The Water Diviner film. Thus, the two models
are important and relevant to be used as the theoretical framework to this study because Greimas’ theory of actants can be used as a device to analyze an action in
the story and this theory has an adva ntage to present the details of character’s life
in the story from the beginning to the end. Moreover, the actantial and functional model have a relation in constructing the main narrative in The Water Diviner
film. The actantial model schematically shows functions and roles of the character that perform in narrative, and the functional model is a sequence events that occur
in the film called function to elaborate the role of the subject in order to carry out the task from the sender.
CHAPTER III DATA ANALYSIS FINDINGS
The writer divides the analysis into two parts. On the first part, the writer discovers the role or the function of each character by determining the character
into six actant functions, such as sender, receiver, subject, object, helper and opponent. Then, the writer describes the actantial scheme which builds the
narrative structure from the events that occurs in the story. The second part, the writer finds the correlations between the results of the analysis of actantial and
functional model to find the main narrative structure in The Water Diviner film.
A. The Data Description
In this chapter, the writer finds the data that will be analyzed in this research. The table below is the list of the acteurs and their actant functions in
The Water Diviner film: Table 3.1
The Actant Function Data
No. Actants
Acteurs Human or Non-Human
1. Sender
Connor desires to find the water Receiver
Connor ‘s Family
Subject Connor
Object Water
Helper Connor’s Ability on dowsing rods
Opponent
2. Sender
Lizzie
Receiver Lizzie
Subject Lizzie
Object Lizzie’s death
Helper Connor’s sixth-sense
Opponent Priest
3. Sender
Connor’s promise Receiver
Connor Subject
Connor Object
Connor’s promise Helper
Connor’s sixth-sense Opponent
Orhan
4. Sender
Connor Receiver
Connor Subject
Connor Object
The way to go to Gallipoli Helper
Orhan, Ayshe Opponent
British Officer
5. Sender
Connor Receiver
Connor Subject
Connor Object
To trace his three missing sons Helper
Arthur’s diary, Major Hasan, Connor’s sixth-sense
Opponent Lieutenant-Colonel
6. Sender
Major Hasan
Receiver
Connor
Subject
Major Hasan
Object
Connor
Helper
Major Hasan
Opponent
7. Sender
Connor
Receiver
Connor
Subject
Connor
Object
Where the prison camp is.
Helper
Connor
Opponent
Major Hasan, British Officer
8. Sender
Orhan
Receiver
Orhan
Subject
Orhan
Object
Connor
Helper
Orhan’s whimper
Opponent
Ayshe
9. Sender
Omer
Receiver
Omer
Subject
Omer