Picture 16 Wilberforce
: “I am speaking of ….the slaves trade.” The members protesting drown out Wilberforce.
00: 45: 11 From the dialogue, the members showed that they fought against with
Wilberforce. They obscured the protagonist to reach his goal. The picture above, Wilberforce stands up, and he talked to the Member of Parliaments and he gave
information that slavery trade was disadvantage all. From all the statement, we found William Wilberforce’s character and
how the involvement of William Wilberforce against the slave trade conflict in the movie of Amazing Grace.
C. The Main Character Described in the “Amazing Grace” Movie
In Amazing Grace movie, there are some characters that to bring well the main topic in the story. The main character in this movie is william Wilberforce.
William Wilberforce is a major character, round character, and static character. He was the vocal parliament member in british.
He was a handsome boy and loyal person. He had a handsome face, he wore the neat dresses, and he never looked tidy. He got married with Barbara,and
he had a child with her. William Wilberforce was a hard worker, a sick man, and good public speaker. He never gave up to fight slaves trade and enforced the
justice.
Wilberforce knew well about law more than the others, he struggled in fighting the slaves trade. He was the man who had an idea how to defeat the
opponents. The director reveals Wilberforce’s characters by using direct and indirect ways, such as, by what other characters talked about him, the actions, and
also appearance. His character are believable and consistence. William Wilberforce is the same at the beginning as that at the end. He
always committed to his decision in passing the bill of slavery abolition although many people were opposing him. Even, in the middle of the story, his closet
companion. Wilberforce never changed his opinion about slaves trade. Until the ending of the story, he committed to abolish the slaves trade. He talked that we
must not prohibit all political discussion of political subject. The issue of slavery is not made any less important by the unrelated issues of war. In war or in peace,
the buying selling of human beings is equally abhorrent. it shows the struggle of Wilberforce in fighting the slaves trade. From the explanation, its mean that
William Wilberforce cared with other people.
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CHAPTER IV CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
A. Conclusion
From all the discussion, there was information that can be concluded in the previous chapter. The characters in this movie can involve in the conflict of the
story well, because the charcaters in the Amazing Grace movie supported to conflict in the movie.
The interesting of this movie is structural elements such as characters and characterization, setting, plot, and theme. The major character in this movie is
William Wilberforce. William has a character that had a big conflict in the movie that talked about his struggle to erased a slavery trade in British. The protagonist,
Wilberforce defended powerfully from the antagonists. The supporting character in this movie also gave some essential contributions to help the protagonist in
fighting against the slavery, because the supporting character has a significant role in this movie.
There are two reasons the writer interested in the story of Amazing Grace movie: The first, because the movie talked legislative battle from the view of
William Wilberforce and other British abolitionists. He wants to persuade some society to give support for him, to campaign the slave in 18 century in the British
in conference. The second, because the movie spoke about a man who stands up for what
was right and to makes no different between all the human being, and the man
