CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
A. Background of the Study
A nanny or a baby sitter is a person who gets a work to take care the children. It is a kind of job in work vacancy. Although it is a lower class job, many people still
look this for job as livelihood. It is so simple, because being a nanny does not need any skills or any good experiences in work. A job as a nanny just claim to take care of
the children, have a good personality and also how to guard the emotions in every situation when raising a child.
Emotions are memorable experiences that appear in daily life. According to Robert Plutchik, he considered eight primary emotions.
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There are positive and negative emotions. Positive emotions like surprise, joy, excitement and love.
Negative emotions like fear, disgusting, anger, guilt and sadness. All of moments when feel love, fear, anger and else may be remembered for years in life.
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Film is a series of moving pictures recorded with sound that tells a story, shown on television or at the cinema. Watching a film are consolation and kind of
daily activities in human life. According to Robert Stanton, nowadays, Western Film
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Robert Plutchik, Wikipedia: Free Encyclopedia, Accessed on December 16, 2009. http:en.wikipedia.orgwikiRobert_Plutchik
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Philip R. Newman and Barbara M. Newman, Principles of Psychology, USA: The Dorsey Press , 1983, p. 323
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is one of the famous popular fictions after the novel and it is not categorized as fiction because of more tendentious to drama.
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The Nanny Diaries film is one of the famous film works in 2007 directed by Shari Spinger Berman and Robert Pulcini.
The Nanny Diaries film is story about New Jersey one Annie Braddock, freshly graduated with honor from New York University, who realized during a
corporate interview that she doesn’t know what she wanted to do in her life until there is a woman, Mrs. X, who is Upper East Side clan, meets her in Central Park and looks
for a nanny for her child, Grayer X.
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The real is, to be a good nanny is not easy, because there are many problems to take care of children, especially a naughty child
such as Grayer. For there, the writer interests to analyze positive and negative emotions in
Annie Braddock as a main character in this film and viewed it from psychology of emotion. It is because her positive and negative emotions that appeared in film since
being a nanny has appeared her characteristic. So the title is “The Emotion of Main Character in the Nanny Diaries film”
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Robert Stanton, Teori Fiksi Robert Stanton, Penerjemah, Bernard Hidayat Yogyakarta: Pustaka Pelajar, 1965, p. 13
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Ed Uyeshima, Superficial Life Lessons Eked Out of A Trivial Urban Fairy Tale, Accessed on September 12, 2008.
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B. Focus of the Study
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