relatives. He mixed his intelligent to purpose his goal and created some tricks to hurt them.
Based on the statement above, the writer is interested in analyzing about the psychological aspect that happened to the personality of Joshua. Such as Bully
and Tyrannize, but the writer will give the further analysis about it in chapter three
B. Focus of the Research
This paper focuses on the analysis of Joshua character as the main character that suffers from psychological disturbance in the movie Joshua.
C. Research Question
Relating to the limitation of problem above, the questions can be formulated as follows:
1. What are the characteristics of Joshua on Joshua film? 2. Are there any personality deviations of Joshua and what causes the
deviation?
D. Significance of the Research
Through this research the writer expects, this research can give the awareness readers and audiences, in order not to see the film only from
entertainments view, but rather to see the form of the main character’s personality and its ideas that gives the positive meaning. This research also expects can be
drawn the enthusiasm of other researchers and readers who want to analyze and perform the same research at film main character. The result of the research
hopefully will be useful for the process of learning English literature.
E. Methodology of Research
1. The Objective of The Study The objectives of this research are to know about the psychological
characteristic and personality deviation of Joshua. 2. Method of The Research
To analyze the data, the writer uses the descriptive – qualitative method. First, the writer watches the movie over and over again. Second, the writer quotes
the dialogues that have sociopath deviation in direction. Third, the writer put them together in order.
3. Technique of Analysis Data The data will be analyzed by using the psychological approach. First, the
writer gives description about the film; and the second, the writer began to analyze the psychological problem of the main character through psychological
approach.
4. Research Instrument In collecting data, the writer uses himself as the instrument who tries to
analyze accurately the phenomena relating with the research question reveals in this research, by watching the movie, reading, identifying, and classifying the
information related to Joshua character and psychology. 5. Unit of Analysis Data
The unit that is analyzed in this research is “Joshua” film, which directed by George Ratliff in 2007.
6. Place and Time The writer is begun this research at seventh semester of academic years
2007 – 2009, at the Department of English Letters, the Faculty of Adab and Humanities, Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta. And others
libraries located in Jakarta.
CHAPTER II THEORETICHAL FRAMEWORK
Psychology has always been a popular topic within the movies; however, there has been concern raised within the discipline that its portrayal in general
along with that of psychologists and psychological disorders has been far from accurate on the whole. Psychologically minded investigator can approach movie.
From one direction, film is a representational medium that is capable symbolizing an enormous range of human actions using such cinematic or narrative devices as
character, action, plot, them, editing, etc. The actions in the film are the analyzable from the perspective of variety of psychological theories.
Psychology is a study of behavior. According to Dr. Sarlito Sarwono, psychology is a science that learns about human behavior in relationship of the
environment
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. Psychology also refers to the application of such knowledge to various areas of human activity including the issues that related to daily life.
Everyone certainly has an uniqueness or specific characteristic that would be coloring the interesting about reality, because everyone has different experiences
at the process of growth. The descendant factor can also caused someone does not have love feeling. A mother is an influential figure within her child character
development too. If a mother has personality deviation too, so there is no place for a child to learn the meaning of love and affection.
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Sarlito Wirawan Sarwono, Pengantar Umum Psychology. Jakarta: Bulan Bintang, 1976, p. 5
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A. Abnormal Psychology 1. Definition of abnormal
