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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
People use language to communicate their ideas and thoughts. They could communicate them explicitly by using linguistic forms to present their ideas,
feelings and thoughts. They could also present them implicitly by asking their addressees to infer utterances. Human beings use the language to get along among
themselves. Language is used to convey ideas in literary works. People use language for various purposes in different forms of writing. They discuss and
write a variety of issues, such as: family, politics, environment, women, education, etc. Prose poems, dramas and other literary works use language in
written form. When we are attempting to learn literature first of all we should carefully observe various conceptions of literature through its definition. There are
a lot of literature definitions that have been produced by many experts; nonetheless it is not our obligation to know all of them.
Francis Connolly, as quoted by Sunaryono Basuki Koesnosoebroto on 1988 claims that there are two kinds of literature: literature of imagination and literature
of knowledge. The literature of imagination i.e., drama, poem, novel, etc interprets experience by a fictitious presentation of person, ideas, and events. Here
the author is not primarily concerned with the truth of particular events, but he invents a life like image or story that embodies truth of human nature. Whereas,
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the literature of knowledge, i.e., technical books, textbooks, etc interprets facts, ideas, or happenings. It is based on the people’s need of factual information.
Film or motion picture is a work of literature. It is made for a certain purpose. I use film as my subject to show movie goers that film can be enjoyed in a
different way. A film with its characteristics can become very enjoyable to study in psychological perspective. One of many things that we can meet is that we can
see the conflicts among the characters in the different points of views. That is why when we watch a film we can simply drop our tears. The characterization is alive;
it can make you cry, happy, sad, or even irritated by the story. It is a part of film that never boring to analyze-conflicts that fill up the story.
Nowadays film is made for a certain purpose. In this project I try to show the readers a psychological point of view to analyze a film. In this point of view we
can see what actually a film is made. In this study I use National Treasure motion picture to get an analysis of a film maker’s purpose. In this film we can deal with
several conflicts that fill up the story. The Benjamin Franklin Gates’ obsession to get the national treasure is one of the conflicts that are interesting to analyze. In
this case I see a strange conflict that inspires me to raise it up as the main analysis. What makes someone do something? The most appropriate answer is the
motivation. People have motivation to achieve a goal or to get something. In that process, people do some effort through various behaviors, including everything
that is integrated with the goal. Kleinginna and Kleinginna 1981: 263-291 as quoted from http:chironvaldosta.eduwhuitmotivationmotivat. html state that
motivation is an internal state or condition that acts behavior and gives direction,
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desire or want that energize and direct goal oriented behavior; influence of needs and desires on the intensity and direction of behavior. This means that someone
who has a motivation does something seriously. He tries it hard to get his needs.
1.2 Reason for Choosing the Topic
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