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2. Data Analysis
In this research, the writer uses descriptive analytical technique, which is describing the facts and then followed by analysis.
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The writer watches the film for several times and analyze the content of the movie that related to
existentialism. 3.
Research Instrument The instrument of the research is the writer himself. The writer as the
subject of the research is watching Fight Club. Then analyze it by using existentialism concept by Jean Paul Sartre.
4. Unit of Analysis
The unit analysis in this research is Fight Club film on digital copy format. It is based on the novel with same title written by Chuck Palahniuk in 1996. The
movie directed by David Fincher, released in United States on October 15
th
, 1999 and distributed by 20
th
Century Fox.
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Ibid., p.53.
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CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
A. Character and Characterization
1. Character
In a film, character is an important element that will develop the story. Character is a person who carries out the events of film and then those events
become a story. A character then, is presumably an imagined person who inhabits a story-although that simple definition may admit to a few exceptions. Character
is any person, persona, identify or entity that exists in a work of art. Along with plot, setting, theme and style, character is considered on of the fundamental
components of fiction.
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2. Characterization
Characterization is the use of literary techniques to reveal the nature of a character. Characterization broadly refers to description and development of
characters. Arguably, most fiction is characterization in aboard sense; one could say that plots and settings, for instance, generally work to develop character.
Characterization can involve developing a variety of aspects of a character such as appearance, dialogue, external action, internal action or reactions of other
characters.
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Kennedy, X.J. An Introduction to Fiction, Boston: Little, Bown, 1983. p.45.
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Joseph M. Boggs and Dennis W. Petrie, The Art of Watching Film, 5
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ed. London: Mayfield Publishing Company, 2000. p.50.
