a distinguishing trait. Trait is distinguishing characteristic or quality, especially of one’s personal nature, while character is the group of features, traits and
characteristic that from the individual nature of some person or thing. The characteristic, a distinguishing trait, quality, or property, an element of character,
that which characterized.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH FINDING
A. Data Description
The presentation of the characters can be flat or round and static or dynamic. Amazing Grace Movie talked about the British anti slavery pioneer.
William Wilberforce was the most vocal parliament member who strove against the slavery trade and war. Introduction of the characters of William Wilberforce
marks the beginning session of the story of this movie. At the time, it was in 1797. The story jumped back to talk about Wilberforce’s struggle fifteen years
earlier before 1797. He was 21 years old when he became a new member in the House of Commons. He was the representative of Yorkshire. He decided to fight
against the slaves trade. He had some colleagues who supported him, they were; William Pit, Thomas Clarkson, John Newton, Lord Charles Fox, Hannah Moore,
James Stephen, Ouladah Equiano, Henry Thornton, and Barbara Spooner.
1. William Wilberforce’s Characteristic As The Main Character
NO Corpus
Characteristic Minute
1. Barbara
:“How long have you been talking
laudanum? I
recognize it presence.” Wilberforce
:“My illness
and my
crusade were born around the same time.”
Barbara :“What is your illness?”
Wilberforce :“The doctors tell me, it’s called colitis. They don’t
ready understand it. But I do.”
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2. Duke
:“Brave in the house but at the table a mouse.”
Tarleton :“Your Grace, you know
these merchants’ boys are richer than we are.”
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3. Richard
:“Sorry, to interrupt, sir. There is a beggar at the
kitchen door. I would turn him away, sir, but you
insisted I always check.”
Wilberforce :“Just give him breakfast.”
Richard :“Very good, sir.”
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4. Wilberforce
:“Some simple truth about this horrendous war need
to be restated for the
benefit of my honorable friends. Simple fact. We
have three rebels on the anvil and hammer in our
hands.
There is
no question that our military
force is far to that of Americans. But we must
distinguish between force and justice.”
Fox :“Where did this terrier
spring from?” Tarleton
:“I believe
he’s a
Yorkshire terrier,
my lord.”
Wilberforce :“Rather
than able
statesman. Surely it is time for the fat fellow and his
friend opposite to make way for the others who
consider the good of their country of greater moment
than their own personal interest.”
Duke :“My
honorable friend
suggests we surrender to the
revolutionaries. Revolution is like a pox. It
spreads from person to A Good
Debater, Public Speaker and A
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person.” Wilberforce
:“I bow to my honorable friends superior knowledge
and experience
in all
matters regarding the pox.” Tarleton
:“Why would we withdraw from American when half
of the American is loyal to the crown?”
Wilberforce :“Less than one in four
Americans are loyal. If he calls that half, I’d hate to be
his wife and share half his bed.”
Fox :“My foreign secretary. My
honorable and my young friends should explain to
the house the difference between appeasement and
surrender.”
Wilberforce :“The difference between
appeasement and surrender is merely a matter of time
and perhaps 10.000 more young lives wasted for no
reason.”
5. Wilberforce
:“You talk
about revolution as if it were a
safe thing.” Thomas
: “It’s just a word.” Wilberforce
:“Everyday we
change things,
by degrees,
education, factories.” Thomas
:“By degrees, you sound like Dundas Gradually”
Wilberforce :“An
imperfect order’s
better than no order.” Thomas
: “We must fight for a perfect order.”
Wilberforce :“I’ve pledge an allegiance
to the king.” Thomas
:“You know as well as I do the King is insane. He
shakes hands with oak Principle Man
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