CHAPTER III RESEARCH FINDING
In this chapter, the writer discusses the character of EstherLeena Klamer as the major character in film Orphan. Then th
e writer analyzes Esther’s characteristic in Esther
– who stuck in her little body-- viewed from Freud’s Psychoanalysis Theory.
A. Data Description
Here are the lists of Esther’s characteristics in Orphan film.
No. Issue
Detail Corpus
Timeline
1. Often Lie
- When John asks Esther
about Brenda’s
accident. John
tells to Esther that Brenda’s father
says that Esther pushes her. But
Esther do
esn’t tell the truth.
-
When Kate
offers to teach Esther
to play
piano, Esther
doesn’t say that she
can play
piano. So, when Kate knew that
Esther can
do that,
Esther doesn’t care of
John : “Brenda’s
father says that you pushed her”
Esther : “That’s not
true, we were just playing. I swear”
Kate : To Max Okay, and did you
see what
happened?” Max
: with sign language she
slipped. Kate:
“You told me you didn’t how to
play?” Esther:
―No, I
didn’t.” Kate:
“Yes you did” Esther:
“You offered me to teach me and I
accepted.” 00:45:30
00:48:30
that and make another statement
to prove that she’s not lying.
2. Lack
of Empathy
It shows when Esther killed a
bird easily and when she gives
Kate the flower which Kate plant
for
her death
daughter -
Esther: takes a rock and gives
that to Danny “Put it out a
misery. It’s in pain, and it’s
your responsibility.”
Danny: “It was
just an accident.” Esther:
“If you walk away now,
it’ll starve to death.
Is that
what you want?” Danny:
“I’m not doing it.”
And Esther kills that
bird by
herself. 00:29:50
3. Aggressive
Esther’s aggressive act is
showed when she pushes
her classmates,
Brenda, when she threatens Daniel
with knife and when she tries to
harm Max with release the hand-
brake of their car. 00:43:37
00:59:36
01:15:25 4.
Impulsive and Difficult
to Control
Their Self It shows when she
come to school for the first time
and gets bullying from her friend.
Brenda
who 00:34:16
wants to take her ribbon off and
Esther scream
suddenly that
makes her look weird.
5. Lack
of remorse and
guilty feeling
She doesn’t have a guilty feeling
when she kills Sister
Abigail. Esther
also doesn’t
have regret when she
broke Jessica’s
flower that make Kate angry
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01:09:57
6. Manipulative Esther
can manipulative her
face expression
and people’s
opinion about her -Esther:
”What happened to her?
Kate: “She died
while she was still in my tummy.”
Esther: while
crying,”She would have
been lucky,
you’re a
great mommy.”
- Dr. Bowning: “My
initial instincts that there’s not a deeply
–rooted problem in Esther’s past.”
Kate: “So, there’s
nothing wrong with her?”
Dr. Bowning: “No.
it’s not all good news. I think what
needs to
be examined in Esther’s
relationship with
those around her. 00:36:05
01:00:43
Specifically with
you, Kate. It seems she feels there’s
been some
real tension between the
two of you.”
In this chapter, the writer applies Sigmund Freund’s psychoanalysis theory to analyze the scenes and the dialogues those describe
the main character’s problem. And before analyzing
the main character’s problem with Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis, she would like to discuss how the main character
described in the film.
B. Character Analysis
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