3 Andrew has mental disorder when he believes and act like a detective. He
wanted to settle a case on an island which is a psychiatric hospital of the island called Aeshecliffe. Andrew believes that he is Teddy Daniels, a detective who will
investigate a case of a patients escape at the hospital, Rachel Solando. In fact, Andrew is a mental disorder patient in Aeshecliffe and his entire story is fictional
story which is part of his delusion and hallucination. This film many found the action or dialogue that reflects the schizophrenia
of Andrew. The main character shows symptoms of schizophrenia such as delusion and hallucination. Therefore, the writer is interested to choose this film
as research material. The writer would like to exploit further how psychoanalysis views the main character who suffers schizophrenia.
B. Focus of the Research
Based on background of the research that have been described previously, then the writer will limit the problem in this study with a focus on dialogue,
setting, and behavior of the main character in the Shutter Island film so that it can be seen schizophrenia on the main character that was featured in the film from the
psychoanalysis perspective.
C. Research Question
Based on research focus above, the writer formulates the problem into the following questions:
1. How is the schizophrenia of the main character depicted in the film? 2. How is the main character
‟s schizophrenia problem seen from Freud‟s Psychoanalysis theory?
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D. Significant of the Research
Significances of the research are: 1. The first one of the requirements for the degree of Strata 1 in English Letter
Department, of Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University. 2. For academics, the writer also hope that in this research could be a reference
for students who want to study and examine case studies of psychoanalysis view on schizophrenia character presented in this film.
E. Research Methodology I. Objectives of the Research
Based on the research questions above, then the purpose of this study are:
1. To describe of schizophrenia on the main character that portrayed in the Shutter Island film
2. To know the main character ‟s schizophrenia problem seen from
Freud ‟s Psychoanalysis theory.
II. Method of Research
The writer uses the qualitative method in analyzing the film; the writer would like to relate the data analysis with the concept. So, it will get
relation among the data analysis, concept and the research question. Qualitative method sees the correlation between the word and sentence
that shaping a certain meaning, and analyzing the correlation and
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The writer uses two data sources, namely primary data source and secondary data source. The primary data source of data
collection is the film “Shutter Island”, while the secondary data are taken
from the another source that is related to primary data and support the analysis like books, articles, journals, and scripts of the film. The method
of data collection is library resources to get information in order to support the analysis.
III. Technique of Data Analysis
In this paper, the writer uses the psychoanalysis theory to analyze the data. The data which are collected will be assessed by using the
psychoanalysis theory to know the scenes and the script. The following processes are conducted by:
1. Watching the film closely 2. Categorizing the script and scenes description that is the main character
through a form of monologue, dialogue, and scenes. 3. Analyzing the data and also interpreting the data with the theory of
psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud.
IV. Instrument of the Research
The instrument of this research is the writer himself. The writer watches the film, read the script and collect the data and theory.
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Muhammad Farkhan, Proposal Penelitian Bahasa Sastra edisi revisi Jakarta: Adabia Press UIN Syarif Hidayatullah, 2010, p.115.
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V. The Unit of Analysis
The unit of analysis in this study is Martin Scorsese Fil m‟s that is
Shutter Island which is released on February 19, 2010 in the United State, produced by Paramount Pictures. The film is played by Leonardo
DiCaprio Teddy Daniels, Mark Ruffalo Chuck Aule, Ben Kingsley Dr. Cawley, Max von Sydow Dr. Jeremiah Naehring, Michelle Williams
Dolores, Emily Mortimer Rachel 1, Patricia Clarkson Rachel 2 and Jackie Earle Haley George Noyce.
VI. Time and Place of the Research
This research was conducted in 2012 in English Letters Department of Adab and Humanity Faculty, Islamic State University
Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta. Moreover, the research took place in English Department and main Library of UIN and other libraries that can support
references material that are needed for this thesis.
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CHAPTER II
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
A. PREVIOUS RESEARCH
According to the previous research which are done before the writer starts to analyze this film is Shutter Island, the writer found some previous research
about this film from any resources are a thesis about A Psycholinguistic Study on Comprehension Disorder of The Schizophrenic Main Character in Shutter Island
Movie written by Dian Luvia Rohmawati 07320085 at English and Language Department Faculty of Humanity State Islamic University of Malang at 2011.
Dian Luvia focus on psycholinguistic study which means she only explain about types of comprehension disorder occur in the conversation between the main
character and other characters in Shutter Island movie. She explain that there are 7 types of comprehension disorder; perseveration, irrelevant answer, derailment,
flight of idea, pressure of speech, retardation and circumstantially. Dian Luvia does not explain how the main character in Shutter Island has schizophrenic
disorder. She only assumes that the main character has schizophrenic and analyze using psycholinguistic study.
Based on the previous research the writer interested in another research topic about schizophrenia on the main character of the Shutter Island film. The
writer uses psychoanalysis theory to analyze the main character ‟s schizophrenia.
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B. FILM
