more than usual. Giving the children a lot of tasks, it is demanding. Count Olaf always gives notes to the children. The note usually asks the Baudelaire children
to do some difficult chores. When it does not get what Count Olaf wants, he is angry and sometimes be rude.
“In agreeing to adopt you,” he said,” I have become your father, and as your father, I am not someone to be trifled with. I demand that you serve
roast beef to myself and my gue sts” p. 46.
From Count Olaf’s speech in the preceding quotation, Count Olaf does not want to be blamed. As the legal guardian of Baudelaire children, Baudelaire
children must obey what he wants even sometimes his demands are too much. In the preceding quotation, Count Olaf has an alibi that he pretends to be like
Baudelaire’s parent. In fact, he has a secret purpose to steal Baudelaire’s fortune. The writer uses the theory by Murphy which is speech, to analyze Count Olaf’s
characteristics.
3. Rude
Rude is about our bad behavior to someone. Count Olaf is described as rude. In the novel, the writer finds some proofs which shows that Count Olaf is
rude. His attitude towards Baudelaire children shows his rudeness. There is a quotation which shows Count Olaf
’s rudeness. Count Olaf looked down at Sunny, who had spoken so suddenly. With an
inhuman roar he picked her up in one scraggly hand and raised her so she was staring at him in the eye. Needless to say, Sunny was very frightened
and began to crying immediately, too scared to even try to bite the hand that held her p. 46.
His anger grows in sudden and he picks Sunny up in the air. Count Olaf is angry because Baudelaire children reject his demand to fix his house. Count Olaf
in sudden movement picks Sunny up. Klaus tries to help Sunny, but then Count Olaf’s theater troupe comes and Count Olaf puts Sunny down. Count Olaf’s
manner shows his rudeness toward Sunny. In analyzing this quotation, the writer uses the point of mannerism by Murphy.
Count Olaf ’s face grew very red. For a moment he said nothing. Then, in
one sudden movement, he reached down and struck Klaus across the face p. 53.
In the preceding quotation, Count Olaf strikes Klaus in his face. From his reaction, his anger makes him rude. Count Olaf is bad-tempered and his temper
grows then become rude. In disciplining the Baudelaire children, Count Olaf does not need to be rude. In this novel, it is Count Olaf’s characteristics. He is rude and
it is shown in this quotation. The point of reaction by Murphy is used to analyze this quotation.
“Oh no,” Klaus said in a small, scared voice, and Violet looked again. It was a birdcage, dangling from the tower window like a flag in the wind,
but inside the birdcage she could see a small and frightened Sunny p. 105.
Sunny is kidnapped by one of Count Olaf’s theater troupe. Count Olaf is very rude in this time. He cages and hangs Sunny in the tower. Sunny is just a
baby, it is very rude to treat a baby like that. Besides it is rude, it is very dangerous. Sunny is caged and hanged in the high tower. If something goes
wrong, Count Olaf will call his theater troupe to cut lost the rope which hangs Sunny in the cage. Of course with the condition like this, Violet and Klaus cannot
do anything except they must obey and finish the play. From this quotation, the
writer uses the point conversation of others so that the writer states that Count Olaf is described as someone who is rude.
If anything goes wrong during tonight’s performance, your sister will be dropped to her death p. 132.
In the preceding quotation, the word anything is italic. It emphasizes that if there is anything wrong in the play, Count Olaf will drop Sunny down. Count
Olaf is very angry with the Baudelaire children because they always reveal and defeat his plan. His speech shows that Count Olaf is rude; he dares to drop Sunny
down if his plan is defeated again. In analyzing this quotation, the writer uses the point of speech by Murphy.
In this subchapter, the writer has shown the characteristics of Count Olaf which is assisted by the theory of M. J. Murphy. The writer found that Count Olaf
has the characteristic of bad-tempered since he is always angry. When something goes wrong or run not in the right way, Count Olaf is angry. The second
characteristic is demanding. Count Olaf demands the children to do anything which he instructs. Count Olaf always gives the children difficult chores to do.
Before leaving his house to go out, he never forgets to leave a note which contains many difficult chores. The last, Count Olaf is rude. How Count Olaf treats
Baudelaire children in his house is rude. When Count Olaf goes out to rehearse with his theater troupe, he always leaves a note which contains of many difficult
chores. The children must do them all. If the children make a mistake, Count Olaf is angry. Then, when he cannot control his anger, he is rude. These characteristics
of bad-tempered, demanding, and rude are dominant in Count Olaf.
B. Count Olaf’s Failures
