A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS’ MANIPULATIONS BETWEEN “THE TALENTED MR.RIPLEY “AND “TO DIE FOR” MOVIES

Safnidar Safnidar Siahaan

Abstract


This research will analyze one of literary works namely movie. This research will be focused on the manipulation action as the human personality part that can be found in the movie especially about the main characters’ manipulation actions in two movies namely movies entitled “The Talented Mr. Ripley” and “To Die For”, then the writer will compare them. There are two points that will be described relating to the manipulation, those are; manipulation as one of Machiavellianism traits and manipulation as one of the behavior patterns used by narcissists. The purpose of this research was to describe the similarities and differences of both movies through the manipulation action from the both movies. In this research, the writer used the descriptive qualitative method. Furthermore, the writer collects the data from the two movies to classify the similarities and differences refer to manipulation action of the main characters. The data collection in this research was done by watching, and took notes before do the analysis from the dialogue, situation who delivered in the movie which becomes the main data in this research.

Keywords


manipulation, Machiavellianism, Narcissistic, Behavior

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33373/as.v12i1.3201

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