Protagonist Character Research Articles

ENTRE RUÍNAS E SILÊNCIOS: AMORALIDADE X DOGMAS RELIGIOSOS EM SEM GENTILEZA, DE FUTHI NTSHINGILA

We know that violence caused by gender and social inequalities is historically constituted as a ‘plastered’ element in the most diverse relationships and cultures. In this way, this work proposes an investigative analysis of the female representation of the protagonist character, Mvelo, in the novel Sem Gentileza (2016) by South African writer Futhi Ntshingila, with the aim of understanding how the writer aesthetically describes these inequalities in the narrative, especially in the context of violence against women, highlighting, for this section, the South African context of black women. From this perspective, we will discuss themes that we consider pertinent, such as religious dogma and the free will of the moral act, which are absent in the characters that make up the narrative, and we will also consider the necropolitics latent in the social context of the characters. In order to carry out this descriptive analysis from a phenomenological point of view and establish a coherent view of the discussions and characters, we will use the studies of Biko (1990), Baur (2000), Hick (2018), Revel (2005), Mbembe (2016), Fanon (2022), Hill-Collins (2019), Hooks (2020), Arendt (1997, 2004), Almeida and Teles (2012) and Saffioti (2004, 2015) among other scholars and theorists as theoretical anchors. Methodologically, this is a qualitative, bibliographical study with a descriptive analytical approach. Through this description, as a preliminary result, we conjecture that the way Ntshingila delineates violence in her poetic texture produces a certain ‘subtlety’ for such grotesque moments.

Analysis of the Main Characters in Film Titanic by James Cameron

This study is mainly focus on to find out the types of characters and the characterizations of the main character in the film entitle “Titanic” by James Cameron. The study used two theories. The first theory is developed by Kenney ( 1998) that is used in analyzing the types of main character and the second theory from Wellek and Warren (1976) which is used in analyzing the characterization of the main character. The data were qualitatively analyzed and presented descriptively based on the theories adopted. Protagonist character was found as the finding result of the study the type of the character classified as major and dynamic character. In showing the type of the character and characterization of main character,the analysis used picture or scenes and the dialogue from the film. There are three aspects of characterization of all main characters that were found. Those are physiological, psychological and sociological aspects.

AUTHOR`S APPROACHES TO DEPICTING THE PROTAGONIST`S CHARACTER THROUGH THE PRINCIPLES OF EXPOSITION IN FEATURE FILMS

The article examines the author's approaches to the construction of drama used in the presentation of plot events in the first act of feature films. The main subject of the study is the principles of building exposition in feature films as an author's approach to portraying the protagonist's character. The purpose of the study is to outline the approaches to the construction of the first act of a feature film according to the degree of authenticity of the protagonist's character portrayed by the author. The research methodology is based on the search method (for collecting information on the chosen topic), the deductive method (for identifying certain stylistic features of films and principles of the first act), the comparative method (for identifying the peculiarities of the author's methods of constructing expositions) and the method of generalisation (for writing conclusions). The results and conclusions of the work are the allocation of approaches to the construction of the exposition (first act) depending on the degree of naturalism of the protagonist's character. The author's desire to build the exposition depending on the catalyst problem narrows the range of manifestations of the protagonist's individual characteristics, which creates a certain "artificiality" of the character. In contrast to this approach, authors build characters through the depiction of the protagonist's relationships with other characters or through a detailed depiction of the protagonists' circumstances. These conclusions help to outline an approach to building a naturalistic protagonist character in the first act (exposition) of a feature film and its further development throughout the story.Key words: first act, exposition, feature film style, protagonist character, drama.

REPRESENTATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AGAINST THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN THE FILM EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE (2022)

This research study racial discrimination against the Asian characters in the film Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022). The aim of this research is to analyze racial discrimination against the Asian characters in the film Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022). The theory used in this research is Orientalism by Edward W. Said. This theory used to analyze racial discrimination against the Asian characters. This research used qualitative descriptive methods to produce descriptive data in the form of written and verbal data from the objects studied. The results of this research show that there are (7) data showed racial discrimination against the Asian characters. There are (3) data that found on protagonist character, there are (1) data that found on antagonist character, and there are (3) data on tritagonist character.

Bullying Concept in Richard III and Kawakami's Haven

The present paper focuses on a new phenomenon in psychological sciences. Bullying can also refer to power-imbalances between two or more persons and between two organizations. Harassment is not limited to a single school or location. In this paper, Bullying is the subject of one of Shakespeare's historical plays, Richard III, in which his complete competence as a dramatist emerges in his description of the protagonist character's collapse. Heaven is another example of bullying. Kawakami's inexhaustible ability is exposed in this text. Heaven depicts teenage anguish in an honest, brutal, and sympathetic way. The paper follows the comparative approach in dealing with this them as it compares between the selected texts. It starts with an introduction to the subject which is followed by a discussion and it ends with a conclusion that sums up the findings.

Shinto, Buddhism, and Japanese Culture Elements in The Movie Heisei Tanuki Gassen Pon Poko

This paper analyzes the Shinto, Buddhism, and Japanese cultural elements in the movie Heisei Tanuki Gassen Pon Poko (Heisei-era Raccoon Dog War Ponpoko), which is a movie produced by famous Studio Ghibli and released in 1994. The director of the movie chose the tanuki, which is a wild raccoon dog species, as the protagonist character to reflect the destruction of natural environments on the outskirts of Tokyo caused by human expansion. The director also included many Japanese Shinto, Buddhism, and cultural elements in this movie, making the movie both entertaining and reflecting. In this work, I will summarize the plot of the movie, explain the three endings in this movie, and conclude the directors message.

AN ANALYSIS OF PROPPIAN’S ARCHETYPES ON CHARACTERS IN ZOOTOPIA MOVIE

Watching movie has become as one of activity choices by people in spare time. This phenomenon can be influenced by the way its presented. As one of literary works, movie has fiction elements, intrinsic elements and extrinsic elements.Intrinsic element is the elements that build the literary work itself. The elements consist of plot, theme, background, character, and point of view. Character has an important role in building a fictional story.A character can be divided into some categories, they are protagonist character, antagonist character, typical character, supporting character,neutral character, etc. a characters can be created by use the seven sphere of acttion which are the Hero, the the Villain, the Donor, the Helper, the Princess, the Dispatcher and the False Hero.Therefore, this research aims focused on analyzing the seven archetypes in Vladimir Propp’s Morphology of the Folktale theory appear in Zootopiamovie. Finally, the findings show that there are 6 out of 7 archetypes that appeared in this movie. The Helper was the most dominant Archetypes that showed in the film with 4 data, followed by Hero, Villain, Princess, and Dispatcher with 2 data and the least dominance Archetypes that showed in the movie was Donor with 1 data.

Representation of Siri’ in the Novel Tenggelamnya Kapal Van Der Wijck

This article examines how the Bugis-Makassar value of siri’ is depicted in the novel Tenggelamnya Kapal Van Der Wijck by Haji Abdul Malik Karim Amrullah (often shortened to “Buya Hamka,” or simply “Hamka”). Through framing analysis of select dialogue and narration depicting siri’ from the novel supplemented by relevant literature sourced from journals, books, and web articles, this examination found that, although the protagonist character of Zainuddin has both Makassar and Minang roots and was written with the intent to represent the Makassar perspective, Hamka’s own background as a Minangkabau ethnic (albeit one who lived in Makassar for an extensive period) results in incomplete depictions of the regional value of siri’ and Makassar customs.

A MOUSE’S COURAGE: THE CHARACTERIZATIONS OF THE BOY IN ROALD DAHL'S THE WITCHES

This study aims to analyze the character of The Boy as the main protagonist character in Roald Dahl's The Witches. The researcher collected the data by using the method of close reading and note-taking. As the main protagonist in the novel, The Boy was described as cheerful, curious, brave, and intelligent. He was described to be optimistically move on with his life after his parents’ deaths and after he was turned into a mouse. He was also a curious child, which lead him to investigate the witches' activity at the resort. As a brave and intelligent mouse, The Boy found tricks to tackle the Grand Witch and her army of witches. As a child who was turned into a mouse The Boy’s characterizations enabled him to save other children from being turned into a mouse. These characterizations could inspire children and readers in general to be optimistic in facing life.

Analyzing The Protagonist Character of Elliot Anderson As Seen In The Film “Black Or White” By Mike Binder

‘Black or White’ described of complains, blames, jealously, selfishness, and understanding about the family love from Elliot Anderson’s character. This research is aimed to know the character of Elliot Anderson as main character by analyzing the evidence from the dialogues and his actions in the film. To know about the character of Elliot Anderson, the writer used the descriptive qualitative method in this paper. The writer employs himself to collect the data by reading script, watching the film and marking them. The writer used the film of Black or White by Mike Binder released in 2014 by Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The writer focused on the dialogues of the film, and then followed by analyzing the character through conscientiousness and neuroticism of personality. In this analysis, the writer finds out that final result about the protagonist character of Elliot Anderson. Elliot Anderson is a recently widower and visible wealthy grandfather. The writer found Conscientiousness of Elliot Anderson characteristic is ambitious and neuroticism Elliot is irritable or anger, complaining person, blaming person, selfish, and jealous. It’s all happened when on one particularly bad day, in which he loses his wife, he wishes people would recognize how hard he is trying and how good his heart is and just leaving him alone in his big house with its big swimming pool and his Mexican maid to raise his young granddaughter Eloise. Keyword: Black or White Film, Elliot Anderson, Protagonist Character

A Deconstructive Reading of Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)

Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) is a postmodern synthesis of Shakespeare's two most famous tragedies, Othello and Romeo and Juliet. It takes off where Shakespeare plays shockingly end. The experience of the protagonist Constance in with Desdemona and Juliet is essential to develop her character for the better when she realizes that Desdemona and Juliet are part of her personality. She has to drown in her unconsciousness to find her true self and change her determined identity through socially gender constructs. This study aims at identifying the representation of Shakespeare's women characters in MacDonald's play and their roles in developing the protagonist's character and consequently demonstrating her individuality. Moreover, knowing how Deconstruction helps re-evaluate women's position and create a new form of a woman. Thus the new version would constitute a complete updating of Shakespeare's plays within the contemporary culture and ideology. The results show the conventional interpretations; MacDonald utilizes Shakespeare's plays to raise current female issues and form her own story that allows the modern reader to develop a modern, conceivable understanding of Shakespeare's works, demonstrating that he is a feminist whose plays have prefigured postmodern women. Through Deconstruction, MacDonald draws the attention for a feminist reading of those Shakespearian plays, examining how the female characters are victims of the patriarchal society and how women are in need to feel they are liberated and able to make their own choice in life.

The Portrayal of an Iranian Queer Muslim Teenager in Arvin Ahmadi’s How It All Blew Up

This research examines the representation of an Iranian queer Muslim teenager in Arvin Ahmadi's How It All Blew Up. It also evaluates how the novel describes the sufferings of an Iranian queer Muslim teenager through symbolism, which Ahmadi uses as his aesthetic strategies. This research is descriptive qualitative, which examines the primary text by using close textual analysis. This research engages with Stuart Hall's theory of representation and Chris Barker's queer theory. The research investigates the symbolism representing the sufferings of an Iranian queer Muslim teenager and what aesthetic strategies the author uses to question mainstream society, which tends to exclude a queer teenager from “normal” belonging. Indeed, the analysis is engaged with Stuart Hall's theory of representation and Chris Barker's queer theory. This research discovered five representations of the protagonist character in the novel, namely Amir is represented as an Iranian queer Muslim that was born to an Iranian Muslim immigrant family, an Iranian queer Muslim that grew up in a Muslim family that did not strictly implement Islamic teachings, an irreligious Iranian queer Muslim, an Iranian queer Muslim that was attracted to people of the same sex, and an Iranian queer Muslim that struggled with his family's acceptance of his queerness. Indeed, this research discovers four symbols that are used to represent the suffering of an Iranian queer Muslim teenager, including the symbol of fortress, tunnel, tattoo, and wall. Thus, Ahmadi’s novel reveals how a queer Muslim teenager struggles to fight for his rights to be acknowledged and appreciated in the ideas of “normality” and social belonging.

الرواية التشكيلية في الروايات الامريكية والعراقية: دراسة لرواية عداء الطائرة الورقية لخالد حسيني ورواية بابا سارتر لعلي بدر

تتركز رواية عداء الطائرة الورقية (2003) للكاتب خالد حسيني على تطور شخصية الكاتب بعد ما قضى وقت من عمره في امريك. تدور احداث الرواية حول شخصية مضطربة لمراهق غيور يمر بتجارب تعمل على تغير شحصية بطل الرواية, امير بينما كان يعيش في افغانستان. توضح الرواية تطور الجانب الروحي للشخصية الرئيسية. تسرد الرواية احداث مثل البحث عن انقاذ النفس والرجوع الى الانسانية. تهدف الدراسة على تحليل وتقيم لرواية بابا سارتر (2001) للكاتب علي بدر الذي يتتبع قصة حياة فيلسوف وجودي عراقي يمثل المفكرين الزائفين اثناء فترة الستينات خلال فترة دراسته في فرنسا للحصول على شهادة الدكتوراه. يحاول سارتر مدينة الصدرية جاهداً تقليد كلام وطريقة تعامل وحصول على وجه مشابه لجون بول سارتر الفرنسي. بالتالي, تهدف الورقة البحثية على تحليل تطور وتشكل شخصية البطل في كلتا الروايتين. على مدار دراسة رواية عداء الطائرة الورقية, بالامكان القول انه البطل اكتسب نضوج نفسي وعاطفي من خلال قيم الولاء والمسؤولية ومعنى الماضي في حياته. سفر امير الى امريكا ساعده في التخلص من الاخطاء التي اقترفها اثناء فترة طفولته لاقرب واعز اصدقاء لدى امير. في ما يخص رواية بابا سارتر لعلي بدر, يصادف القارئين بشخصية سارتر مدينة الصدرية الذي يقع ضحية عالم الفسوق والشهوانية ويتنقل من حضن امراة الى اخرى. سارتر يعيش حياه غير مكترث بالاخرين. يبذر جميع مايملكه من مال على مسالة تافه. في الوقت ذاته يقدم نفسه على انه سارتر العرب, سارتر الشرق الاوسط. سارتر يكذب عادة وجميع اصدقاءه يدركون قصة حياته الزائفة.

Nora’s Re-birth as a Human: A Critical Analysis of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

Abstract
 This paper scrutinizes Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House where the female protagonist character is analyzed through investigation of the three elements of human beings: soul, body, and mind. This analysis of the play is processed along with the analysis of the dramatic elements, techniques, and conventions of dramatic criticism. The investigation of the stages of social drama in the female character’s situation as presented in this play is intended to highlight woman’s tragedy in patriarchal society. Ibsen sees women caught in a tragic situation where Nora is found in confrontation with society and its patriarchal concepts. This paper, thus, traces women’s attempts to challenge gender inequality as presented through the female protagonist’s acts. The female character actions in incidents of stereotyping, objectification, and oppression which reflect gender politics, sexuality, and power relations, should reveal her stand facing gender inequality under patriarchy. Evidence in the play text that demonstrate the female character’s negotiation, rejection, and/or objection to all that deprives her equal rights to those of man as human should reveal to which extent, she manages to challenge gender inequality. By so doing Nora breaks the inferior status imposed on her being a woman.

KARAKTER PROTAGONIS PANCHITO: STUDI CERPEN THE CIRCUIT KARYA FRANCISCO JIMÉNEZ

The short story of The Circuit substantially carries on the American Dream from the immigrants’ expectations living in California. Their expectations rely on spirituality, wealthy, freedom, and other life necessity aspects. This research reviews the protagonist character as written in Francisco Jiménez’s The Circuit and applies for the content analysis method. Data collection primarily uses the short story of Jiménez’s The Circuit as part of the philology research. Data analysis deals with the intrepretative approach by identifying and mapping the life of a migrant child in 1947 documented in The Circuit facts . The findings showed that the protagonist characters tightly correspond with the life of a-4-year-old Panchito, who is conditionally forced to work with his parents as the nomad fruit picker in the entirely ready-harvesting plantation areas of California Federal State with a very low wage granted and dwell in inappropriate housing. Panchito’s protagonist character addresses a positive and tough motivation in happening his dreams that trigger the expansive morality values toward life struggles. Keywords: mexican immigrants, life struggle, protagonist, Panchito

AN ANALYSIS OF THE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE CHARACTERS IN SHORT MOVIE ENTITLED IBU

ABSTRACTCharacter is someone who appears in the story such as in short stories, novels, dramas, or movies. In this research, the researcher would like to analyze the characterization of the characters in the short movie entitled IBU. The research problems of this research are 1). How is the characterization of the characters? 2). What moral value that we got from the movie?. The purpose of this research is to know the characterization of the characters and to know the moral values that can we get. This research used qualitative descriptive to analyze and interpret the research object in the short movie entitled IBU. The researchers used table analysis in collecting the data. After that, the researchers explain and describe the result based on the table and made a conclusion. Based on the result, the researcher found the characterization of the characters. It is found that Gerry was an antagonist character while the mother was a protagonist character.

Walisongo Da'wah Strategy: Analysis of the Symbolism of Amar Ma’ruf Nahi Munkar in Semar and Togog Characters

The Spreaders of Islam in the early period -Walisongo- used wayang (puppet), which is very thick with symbolic values as a media of da’wah, and two of those are in the character of Semar and Togog. Both Semar and Togog have a crucial position in Javanese Wayang's story, which are used as a strategy to make Islamic teachings reachable in society. By using a qualitative descriptive method, this study explores how the symbolic representation of amar ma’ruf nahi munkar in the construction of Semar and Togog characters. The result of this study that Semar as a guardian of protagonist character, such as Pandawa is a representation of amar ma’ruf. On the other side, Togog, the guardian of giants and other antagonist characters, is represented symbolically as nahi munkar. Nevertheless, the Togog’s position, which is in the part of antagonist does not make him automatically become an antagonist itself. He even has a more challenging and more glorious role than Semar because he must be in the dark circle without being a part of that dark itself.

A Casa da Madrinha: o processo de individuação na obra de Lygia Bojunga

Consagrada entre os mais destacados escritores brasileiros da literatura infantojuvenil, a narrativa de Lygia Bojunga entrelaça a temática social ao conflito psicológico e ao processo de amadurecimento das personagens protagonistas. Ou seja, elementos do real servem de base para a fantasia, possibilitando várias formas de leitura das histórias criadas pela escritora. Nesse sentido, o presente artigo traz uma abordagem teórico-analítica, em que o objetivo foi analisar a obra A Casa da Madrinha, de Lygia Bojunga (2015), a partir de uma leitura junguiana. A jornada de Alexandre, personagem central, é desvelada como símbolo do processo de individuação. A Psicologia Analítica de Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) foi utilizada como instrumento de revelação do simbólico, do mitológico da obra da escritora, ou seja, para a interpretação do espaço de fantasia da narrativa e do processo de individuação do personagem protagonista da história. Na literatura de Lygia Bojunga, a imaginação não aparece como fator de alienação do real, mas como processo fundamental de transformação e mobilização da vida, onde o personagem Alexandre, na experiência de seu processo de individuação, foi capaz de ressignificar seus espaços de vida exterior e interior.

Mark Watney’s optimism in Andy Weir’s The Martian

The aims of this study are to analyze and identify; (1) Mark Watney’s optimism in the novel and (2) the impact of being optimistic as reflected in the novel. This study belongs to library research. To analyze the data, this study applies a psychological approach. The analyzed data are described by using the descriptive qualitative method, then. After analyzing the novel, it is found that; first, Mark Watney as the protagonist character is an optimist person proved by his goals and expectancy. Based on the types of optimism, Mark’s optimism refers to the comparative optimism and situational optimism. Second, the impact of being optimistic for Mark Watney are; he has high self-efficacy and hopes that somehow leads him to find a way to communicate with people on Earth, growing food and eventually manages to find his way back to the earth.

"I made a mistake!": A narrative analysis of experienced physicians' stories of preventable error.

The complexity of healthcare systems makes errors unavoidable. To strengthen the dialogue around how physicians experience and share medical errors, the objective of this study was to understand how generalist physicians make meaning of and grow from their medical errors. This study used a narrative inquiry approach to conduct and analyse in-depth interviews from 26 physicians from the generalist specialties of emergency, internal, and family medicine. We gathered stories via individual interview, analysed them for key components, and rewrote a "meta-story" in a chronological sequence. We conceptualized the findings into a metaphor to draw similarities, learn from, and apply new principles from other fields of practice. Through analysis we interpreted the story of a physician who is required to make numerous decisions in a short period of time in different clinical environments among the patient's family and whilst abiding by existing rules and regulations. Through sharing stories of success and failure, the clinical supervisor can help optimize the physician's emotional growth and professional development. Similarly, through sharing and learning from stories, colleagues and trainees can also contribute to the growth of the protagonist's character and the development of clinic, hospital, and healthcare system. We draw parallels between the clinical setting and a generalist physician's experiences of a medical error with the environment and practices within professional sports. Using this comparison, we discuss the potential for meaningful coaching in medical education.