Criticism Towards Gender Discrimination As Seen in the Script of the Dictator Movie

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CRITICISM TOWARDS GENDER DISCRIMINATION AS SEEN IN THE SCRIPT OF THE DICTATOR MOVIE

AN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of SarjanaSastra in English Letters

CHERRY JOSIE MICHELLE ROSENTIA PANJAITAN Student number: 114214039

ENGLISH LETTERS STUDY PROGRAM DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LETTERS FACULTY OF LETTERS SANATA DHARMA UNIVERSITY YOGYAKARTA 2017

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A Sa/jana Sastra Undergraduate Thesis

CRITICISM TOWARDS GENDER DISCRIMINATION AS SEEN IN THE SCRIPT OF THE DICTATOR MOVIE

CHERRY JOSIE MICHELLE ROSENTIA PANJAITAN

Student number: 114214039

Approved by

Drs. Hirmawan Wijanarka, M.Hum January 20,2018

Advisor

~ ~-~ Harris Hermansyah Setiajid, M.Hum January 20, 2018

Co-advisor

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A Sarjana Sastra Undergraduate Thesis

CRITICISM TOWARDS GENDER DISCRIMINATION AS SEEN IN THE SCRIPT OF THE DICTATOR MOVIE

CHERRY JOSIE MICHELLE ROSENTIA PANJAITAN

Student number: 114214039

Defended before the Board ofExaminers

On January 24, 2018

And Declared Acceptable

BOARD OF EXAMINERS

Name Chairman : Drs. Hirmawan Wijauarka, M.Hum. ---R- Secretary : Harris Herrnansyah Setiajid, M.Hum. -----N--~-~-----.' Member : Elisa Dwi Wardani, S.S., M.Hwn. ~~.~.-"~~~: --..:..... Member : Drs. Hirmawan Wijanarka, M.Hum. _____~_ - -~-~ /fJ Member : Harris Herrnansyah Setiajid, M.Hum. ------~

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STATEMENT OF ORIGINALITY

I certify this undergraduate thesis contains no material which has been previously submitted for the award of any other degree at any university, and that, to the best of my knowledge, this undergraduate thesis contains no material previously written by any other person except where due to reference is made in the text of the undergraduate thesis.

January 15,2018 ~

Cherry Josie Michelle R.P

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LEMBAR PERNYATAAN PERSETUJUAN PUBLIKASI KARYA

ILMIAH UNTUK KEPENTINGAN AKADEMIS

Yang bertanda tangan di bawah ini, saya mahasiswa Universitas Sanata Dharma

Nama : Cherry Josie Michelle Rosentia P

NIM : 114214039

Demi pengembangan ilmu pengetahuan, saya memberikan kepada Pcrpustakaan Universitas Sanata Dharma karya ilmiah saya yang be,judul

CRITICISM TOWARDS GENDER DISCRIMINATION

AS SEEN IN THE SCRIPT OF THE DICTATOR MOVIE

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WE ARE OUR CHOICES

- JP Sartre

TOO MANY OF US ARE NOT

LIVING OUR DREAMS BECAUSE

WE ARE LIVING OUR FEARS

Les Brown

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FOR

MY BELOVED PARENTS

AND

MY LOVELY SISTERS AND BROTHER

AND

MY LOVER AND FRIENDS

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

First of all, I would like to say thank you to my great savior, Jesus, the one who answer my prayer and give me strength to face anything in life including this undergraduate thesis.

I would like to express my deep gratitude to Hirmawan Wijanarka for his guidance and his patience in revising this thesis from the beginning to the end. In addition, the writer thanks all of the lecturer in Sanata Dharma University who have given me something that beyond knowledge.

I also want to give my gratitude to my beloved parents, Erwin Millar Panjaitan and Jeannette Westenberg that always support me and encourage me to complete my education. They said education is an important thing in life so people won’t underestimate me in the future.

My special gratitude goes to my sisters; Charisty, Clarissa and brother; Craig who always support me in every situation. I thank them for their advice and unconditional love.

I would like to thank my beloved Fuad who always support me and help me to do my thesis. My greatest thanks go to all my friends in English Letters Department

2011. I thank them for the support and a nice friendship.

Cherry Josie Michelle R.P

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE…………………………………………………………………. i APPROVAL PAGE………………………………………………………...... ii ACCEPTANCE PAGE……………………………………………………….iii STATEMENT OF ORIGINALITY……………………………….……...…….iv LEMBAR PERNYATAAN PERSETUJUAN PUBLIKAS……………………….v MOTTO PAGE………………………………………………………………….vi DEDICATION PAGE………………………………………………………...vii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS……………………………………….…………...viii TABLE OF CONTENTS………………………………………………………..ix ABSTRACT………………………………………………………..………….....xi ABSTRAK……………………………………………………...……………..…xii

CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION...... 1 A. Background of the study……………………………………………………1 B. Problem Formulation……………………………………………………….4 C. Objective of the Study…………………………………………………….4 D. Definition of Terms……………………………………………………….4

CHAPTER II:REVIEW OF LITERATURE…………………………………6 A. Review of Related Studies…………………………………………………6 B. Review of Related Theories………………………………………………7 1. Theory of Character and Characterization………………………….7 2. Theory of Gender Discrimination……………………………..…11 C. Theoretical Framework……...………………………………………….....13

CHAPTER III: METHODOLOGY……………………………………...... 15 A. Object of the Study……………………………………………………….15 B. Approach of the Study……………………………………………………16 C. Method of the Study………………………………………………….…..17

CHAPTER IV: ANALYSIS A. The Description of Main Characters…………...………………………....19 1. The Description of Aladeen…………...…………………………..….19 a. Narcissistic……...……………………………………………..….20 b. Stubborn……………...…………………………………………...21 c. Ignorant……………………...……………………………………23 d. Eccentric…………………………………………………………..24 e. Violent…………………………………………………………….26 2. The Description of Zoey………………………...………………....…27 a. Confident……………………………………………………..…...27 b. Courageous……………………………………………………..…30

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c. Open Minded……………………………….…………………………...31 d. Kind…………………………………………………………….…32 B. The Issues of Gender Discrimination Criticized Through the Character....34 1. Women are Simply an Object for Men……………………...………..34 2. Women Education is not Necessary…………………………………..36 3. The Existence of Women is not Important………………...………....37 4. Women have to Fulfill the Beauty Standard………….………..……..40 5. Women are not Allowed to be Independent………………………..…42 CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION……………………………………………...…44 BIBLIOGRAPHY...... 46 APPENDIX………………………………………………………...……………47

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ABSTRACT

Cherry Josie Michelle R.P. Criticism Towards Gender Discrimination in The Script of The Dictator Movie. Yogyakarta: Department of English Letters, Faculty of Letters, Sanata Dharma University, 2017. In some societies women are often seen as inferior human beings. Women are treated unequally and are often discriminated while men have the power to control women. This thesis examines the movie script of The Dictator movie. The movie script contain criticism towards gender discrimination. There are two problems that will be discussed in this thesis. The first is to find out the characteristics of the main characters in the movie script. The second is to find out the criticism towards gender discrimination in the movie script. In this thesis, the writer uses feminist approach. The writer applies library research as the method of this study. This thesis employs theories of character and characterization and gender discrimination. The findings of the study show criticism of gender discrimination toward women. Firstly, the writer analyzes the characteristics of two major characters. The first character is Aladeen who is described as narcissistic, stubborn, ignorant, eccentric and violent, the second is Zoey who is described as confident, courageous, open minded and kind. Secondly, the writer analyzes the criticism of gender discrimination that occurs in the movie script. Lastly, by relating the characteristics of the characters with the discrimination that occurs, the critics of gender discrimination and the way women being discriminate can be revealed. There are five of critics, the first is women are simply an object for men, the second is women education are not necessary, the third is the existence of women is not important, the fourth is women have to fulfill the beauty standard, the fifth is women are not allowed to be independent.

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ABSTRAK

Cherry Josie Michelle R.P. Criticism Towards Gender Discrimination in The Script of The Dictator Movie. Yogyakarta: Jurusan Sastra Inggris, Fakultas Sastra, Universitas Sanata Dharma, 2017.

Di beberapa kelompok masyarakat, perempuan sering dianggap sebagai makhluk yang rendah. Perempuan diperlakukan tidak adil dan mendapat diskriminasi, sementara lelaki memiliki kebebasan untuk mengontrol perempuan. Skripsi ini membahas naskah film yang berjudul The Dictator. Di naskah film terdapat beberapa kritik terhadap diskriminasi jender. Terdapat dua masalah yang akan dibahas dalam skripsi ini. Pertama adalah membahas tentang tokoh- tokoh utama yang digambarkan. Kedua adalah menemukan kritik terhadap diskriminasi gender pada naskah film. Dalam skripsi ini, penulis menggunakan pendekatan feminis. Penulis menggunakan metode penulisan kepustakaan sebagai metode yang digunakan dalam studi ini. Skripsi ini menerapkan teori tentang tokoh dan penokohan serta diskriminasi gender. Hasil dari studi ini menunjukkan kritik-kritik diskriminasi gender terhadap perempuan. Pertama, penulis menganalisis karakter- karakter dari dua tokoh utama. Tokoh pertama adalah Aladeen yang digambarkan sebagai orang yang cinta diri, keras kepala, tidak acuh, eksentrik, dan bengis, yang kedua adalah Zoey yang digambarkan sebagai orang yang percaya diri, pemberani, terbuka, dan baik. Kedua, penulis menganalisis kritik diskriminasi gender yang muncul di naskah film. Yang terakhir, dengan mengaitkan karakteristik dari karakter dengan diskriminasi yang muncul maka kritik diskriminasi gender dan bagaimana perempuan didiskriminasi bisa diungkap. Ada lima kritik, yaitu yang pertama perempuan hanyalah benda bagi lelaki, kedua, perempuan tidak memerlukan pendidikan, ketiga, keberadaan perempuan tidaklah penting, keempat, perempuan harus memenuhi standart kecantikan, kelima, perempuan tidak diperbolehkan untuk mandiri.

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CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

A. Background of the Study

Literature is an expression of thoughts that covers so many aspects. The authors create their works as a media to tell the readers based on what they heard, seen and feel. There are so many aspects that can be covered by this kind of expression such as social life, politics, love, life philosophy, gender, etc.

The readers here are the active agents who impart "real existence" to the work and complete its meaning through interpretation. However, each reader can have different perspective according to their personal opinion and rendition.

Readers can be both subjective and objective while interpreting the work but this research allowed them to expand their understanding. Readers and audiences use amateur or professional procedures for reading as well as their personal issues and values. By reading literature, readers will enhance their knowledge because in any interpretation of literature contains information needed for life.

A movie, also called a film, motion picture or photoplay is a series of stable images which shown on a screen and finally creates the illusion of moving images. Movie as the object of this research is an adaptation of literature and art.

Movie is considered to be an important art form, a source of popular entertainment, and a powerful agent for educating indoctrinating the citizens. This visual basis of movie makes it be a universal power of communication.

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Some movies are partly intended to criticize some issues or some people.

However, literary work can be a medium to attack the object that become problem for the author. In this case, some authors sometime unconsciously share their personal experience through the work they made. As seen in the main topic that always discussed, the author wants to deliver their idea based on what they’ve been through.

The Movie The Dictator is a 2012 British-American comedy film directed by Larry Charles. It is a decent entry in the poli-slapstick comedy genre.

The character was inspired by dictators Kim Jong-il, Idi Amin, Muammar

Gaddafi, Mobutu SeseSeko and Saparmurat Niyazov.

The Dictator is a satirical comedy in which Sacha Baron Cohen plays the unpopular dictator of an imaginary middle-eastern country who travels to the USA. The film was classified '15' for strong language and sex references. (www.bbfc.co.uk/, October 24, 2016)

This movie script was written by Sacha Baron Cohen. He is also become the leading role in the movie The Dictator. This is his fourth feature film as a leading role.

Baron Cohen was born in Hammersmith. He was raised Jewish. His father's family were Eastern European Jews who moved to Pontypridd, Wales, and London, England, and his mother's family were German Jews.

Jews during the late 19th and early 20th centuries abandoned a racial definition of Jewishness in favor of one that embraced ethnicity. Jewish as a

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means to define Jews in a world that threatened to overwhelm and absorb Jewish uniqueness.

Although Jews have contributed greatly to arts overall, there remains a distinctly Jewish literature. Jewish literature often explores the experience of being a Jew in the society, and the conflicting pulls of secular society, class, race and history.

As seen from the writer’s history it is concluded that Cohen wants to deliver something based on his experience and finally criticizes the society through The Dictator movie. The Dictator itself is a story about Aladeen who is an ego maniacal dictator of Wadiya who is hated by practically everyone in his country, even his confidants. He was betrayed by his own trusted man, Tamir.

Someone grabs him and shaves off his trademark beard and was about to kill him but somehow he finally can escape. He is no longer has his beard and instantly he lost his power. He met this woman named Zoey who looks like a boy because of her appearance. She is short, her hair is short and doesn’t have body curve like any women who is fulfilling the standard, she even has armpit hair which is adjust for women.

After watching the movie and reading the movie script, the writer is interested to analyze the problem of discrimination the story. There are many scene that indicate discrimination appear in the movie that can lead this research to the main discussion. Therefore, the researcher tries to describe and relate the movie script of The Dictator with the main focus to be analyzed.

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B. Problem Formulation

In order to guide and based on the background study above, the writer

formulates the problems as follows:

1. How are the main characters described in the movie script?

2. What issues are of gender discrimination criticized through the characters?

C. Objectives of the Study

According to the problem statements, the main objective in this research as

follows is to analyze the main characters in the movie script. The writer will also

analyze the issues of gender discrimination criticized through the characters.

D. Definition of Terms

Some words will be defined to guide the readers to understand and get the idea

of the thesis. The source of the definition mostly from books and web sites that are

qualified.

Gender is the attitudes, feelings and behaviors that a given culture associates with a person's biological sex. Behavior that is compatible with cultural expectations is referred to as gender normative; behaviors that are viewed as incompatible with these expectations constitute gender non conformity.

(https://www.apa.org/, November 12, 2016)

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Discrimination discrimination is the inequal treatment to individual or groups that based on the sex difference. Discrimination might cause a person or a group live in limitations or without full freedom.

Different treatment of individuals or groups based on arbitrary ascriptive or acquired criteria such as sex, religion, age, marital or parental status, disability, sexual orientation, political opinions, socio-economic background, and trade union membership and activities. (http://www.eurofound.europa.eu, November 12, 2016)

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CHAPTER II

REVIEW OF LITERATURE

A. Review of Related Studies

The review of related studies is an essential part of any research or investigation. The survey of the related studies is a crucial aspect of the planning of the study. There are some studies that analyze similar topic yet in different interpretation. A journals article by Annisa Zulfa on The Dictator discusses about the flouting of Grice’s conversational maxims by the main character in the movie.

The research is to identify the maxims flouted by the main character and the implicatures of the utterances containing maxims flouted by the main character in movie. She focuses on the communication happening between the main characters in the movie contains a lot of flouting of conversational maxims.

This research using the same source which is The dictator. However, the main idea discuses in the research is more about the linguistic while in this thesis the writer wants to discuss the literature.

The result of the study is that the main character in the movie flouts all types of conversational maxims; maxim of quantity, maxim of quality, maxim of relation and maxim of manner. (p. 1)

Another study related is written by Eydis Hauksdottir entitle Gender

Discrimination in The European Union. Hauksdottir write about gender discrimination in the EU including equal pay for work of equal value, sexual harassment in the workplace and examination of the main exceptions from the discrimination rules.

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Women often experience a “glass ceiling” and according to the United Nations, there are no societies in which women enjoy the same opportunities as men. The term “glass ceiling” describes the process by “which women are barred from promotion by means of an invisible barrier”. There are several reasons for the glass ceiling phenomenon and among them is the lack of role models, networking options, mentoring, and literature has singled out stereotypes of the societies and prejudices against women in positions of power. There are also lot of complexities of the dual role as working woman and housekeeper. (p. 11)

This study more likely discusses gender discrimination appears in politic, workplace and in the rules exist in the EU. Each place has some differences related to gender discrimination, from its specification cause by the different environment and culture. It is correct that gender discrimination occurs in society because of the culture upon gender itself. There are some idea about women who can’t get an equal status, opportunity, and treatment.

B. Review of Related Theories

1. Character and Characterization

Another theory that will be used is character and characterization theory.

It is the second important element in a drama, play or film. The writer finds it important to gain the full understanding about the main character to understand more about the discriminations appear in the script. Therefore, it is important to know about the meaning of character itself.

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Abrams, in his book A Glossary of Literary Terms states that,

Character is the person, in dramatic or narrative work, endowed with moral and dispositional qualities that are expressed in what they say – the dialogue – and by what they do – the action. The ground in a character’s temperament and moral nature for his speech and action constitute hiw motivation (1989: 20).

Abram’s definition of character is clear enough, that is in character itself there is moral or certain type of person and there is also quality of the person him or herself. This moral and qualities represent on their speech and action on the story.

The stories always give some introduction about their characters to give a description. Character refers to the mixture of interests, desires, emotions, and moral principles that makes up each of these individuals. Character gives a certain situation of circumstance in the story because there is emotion in it. Character is a complicated term that includes tile idea of the moral constitution of the human personality, the presence of moral uprightness, and the simpler notion of the presence of creatures in art that seem to be human beings of one sort or another.

Character can be defined into two types, as E. M. Forster says in his book

Aspects of the Novel, main or major character and minor characters,

On the basis of importance, we can distinguish two types of characters. Major character is the most important character in a story. Basically, the story is about this character, but he can not stand on his own; he needs other character, to make the story more convincing and lifelike (needless to say that we need other element of the story such as setting). Minor characters are characters of less important than those of the main are (1971: 32).

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It is suitable to this research because the theory can be applied to the movie script. Aspect of the Novel states about main and minor character that is also existed in the movie script.

Characterization is a literary device that is used in literature to explain the details about a character in a story. The character was introduced by noticeable emergence. It is about the character’s behavior, the thought-process of the character, the character’s opinions and ideas and the conversations with the rest of the character. The last part shows how others in the story respond to the character’s personality.

There are two types of characterization which are explicit characterization and implicit characterization. Explicit characterization is a direct approach towards building the character. It uses another character to tell the audience about the subject. Implicit characterization is a more subtle way of introducing the character to the audience. The audience has to observe these ways:

1. Personal description

The author describes the character’s physical appearance such as skin color, height, face, hair, etc. It’s the reader mind’s eye that work to figure out the characteristics of the character.

2. Characters as seen by another

The author does not describe the qualities of a character directly but he/she uses other character’s opinion. The reader will see the characteristics of a certain character through the eyes of another characters.

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3. Speech

Speech is a manifestation of character. The author can give an insight to the readers into the character of one person through what that person says. Whenever a person speaks, put forward an opinion and is in conversation with another, he is giving the reader some clues to his character.

4. Past life

The author can give us the clue to events that helped to shape a person’s character by letting the reader learn something about a person’s past life. The character’s past life is always closely connected to the present life. It can be traced to help the reader to understand the motive of action of the present life.

5. Conversation of others

The character through the conversation of other people and the things they say about him. The reader need to pay attention to the conversation of other characters. It can be done by going through speech by speech to determine exactly what is meant or implied by each of them.

6. Reactions

The author can also give the reader clue to a person’s character by letting the reader know that person’s reacts to various situation and events. The character shows their personality from their action. The action concerns to their motives and thought.

7. Direct comment

Direct comment is done by giving the readers a straight forward description or comment on the character. It helps the readers to find out the information about

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the character easily. At some point, the description is provided at the beginning of the story when they have not been quite familiar with the personality as the writer intends to, which also mean that the personality of misinterpretation can be decrease.

8. Thoughts

The author can give the reader knowledge of what a person is thinking about. In this aspect he or she is able to do what we cannot do in real life which is telling them what different people are thinking.

9. Mannerism

The author can describe a person’s mannerism, habits, or idiosyncratic which may also tell us something about his character.

Characterization is an essential component in making literature.

Understanding the role of characterization in storytelling is very important. It helps audience to relate better to the events taking place in the story. Dialogues play an important role in developing a character to examine the motivations and action of the characters more deeply.

Although the writer uses theory of characters and characterization for novel but in the practice this theory can be apply to the object in correct way. The component of the movie script is similar to novel and it makes the theory suitable.

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2. Gender Discrimination

People sometimes misunderstood about sex and gender. Stoller in David

Gloves and Cora Kaplan’s book (2000:10) says that

Gender identity starts with the knowledge and awareness, whether conscious or unconscious, that one belongs to one sex and not the other, though as one develops, gender identity becomes much more complicated, so that for example; one may sense himself as not only a male but masculine man of an effeminate man or even as a man who fantasies being woman.

Based on Bernard E. Whitley Jr. in The Psychology of Prejudice and

Discrimination, discrimination in general is a behavior which deals with the way people act toward members of other groups and it consists of behaving differently toward people based on their membership in a social group. The term discrimination usually refers to acting in an unfair or demeaning manner or to giving someone an undeserved advantage (2010: 370)

Gender discrimination is a kind of discrimination which is based on the gender role. The issue of gender discrimination has been widely discussed in literature and the mass media sources. Gender discrimination usually puts women in disadvantages because individuals still perceive that women and men should occupy different social roles.

The issue of gender discrimination is associated with human values and the socially constructed process of developing values in humans.

This theory helps to explain the necessity of struggle for equal rights in the workplace, at home, and in other public places. This theory speaks for the increased role of diversity in human society.

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Culture provides a record of how women and men have lived and been committed to live over the course of human history. Women’s lives have been limited by constraints placed on them by male-dominated societies. They have been prevented from working in some professions and were assigned secondary roles such as “ home-maker”, despite being as talented as men at more public occupations.

The identity of men and women is constructed through cultural practices and images over time. They focus on the ideal of masculinity and femininity. The qualities and characteristics of the gender ideals may not be biologically. It is distinguish by the cultural norms and ideals concerning masculinity and femininity from biological sexuality. Each of us was born with a clear biological sexual identity in most instances. However, we learn behavior appropriate to that biological sexual identity from culture.

Traditionally, women had been assigned secondary social roles by men, who monopolized resources and power for themselves. Women’s portrayed in literature and culture was often quite negative and in keeping with power structure that kept women in a secondary social position.

Any acts that limit the rights of a person based on the sexual difference is considered as gender discrimination that make a person cannot have the full freedom to do anything he or she likes in many aspects of life.

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C. Theoretical Framework

Some theories will be used to support the analysis. All theories help to analyze the criticism of gender discrimination as seen in The Dictator movie script.

Firstly, the writer applies the theory of character and characterization.

This theory is used to reveal the characterization of the main character. The theory of character from Abrams’ book used to explain the definition of character. To explain the definition of characterization the writer uses book from Henkle. The theory from Murphy is used to explain how the author can convey reader through the character. The qualities of the charcter can be identified through the way he or she speaks, what he or she does, her or his way of thinking, what other characters say about her or him. The writer focuses on two major characters, they are

Aladeen and Zoey. Once the qualities of the characters are revealed , the writer applies the theory of gender discrimination.

The theory of gender discrimination applies to identifying the discrimination against women that occur in the movie script. The last theory is the theory of feminism. In order to identify the criticism of gender discrimination in the movie script, the theory of feminism is used by the writer. Not only feminism in general but also the theory of radical feminism as one of the particular movements of feminism.

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CHAPTER III

METHODOLOGY

A. Object of the Study

This literary study deals with the script of The Dictator, a movie written

and starred by Sacha Baron Cohen. This movie is his fourth feature film in a

leading role. The film director is Larry Charles. Baron Cohen, in the role of

Admiral General Aladeen, the dictator of the fictional Republik of Wadiya

visiting the United States, stars alongside Anna Faris, Ben Kingsley, Jason

Mantzoukas, and an uncredited appearance by John C. Reilly.

The character of Baron Cohen was inspired by several dictators such as

Kim Jong-il, Idi Amin, Muammar Gaddafi, Mobutu Sese Seko and Saparmurat

Niyazov.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three stars out of a

possible four. He stated that The Dictator is funny, in addition to being obscene,

disgusting, scatological, vulgar, cruel, rude, and so on. Sacha Baron Cohen

promoting this movie on countless talk show. However, he establishes a claim to

be the best comic filmmaker now working.

This movie telling about a person who raised from a father who is a

dictator and now become dictator like his father. He is Aladeen. He is the ego

maniacal dictator of Wadiya who's hated by practically everyone in his country,

even his confidants. He goes to New York to speak at the assembly about his

country's nuclear weapons. But suddenly someone assigned to protect him, grabs

him and shaves off his trademark beard and was about to kill him when something

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happens and he escapes, He tries to go to the UN but his people have placed a

double in his place and he speaks to the UN announcing he plans to turn Wadiya

into a Democracy. Aladeen tries to go in but is kept out. He is taken in by a

woman name Zoey who was there protesting Aladeen.

He thinks that zoey is a boy because her appearance is unlike the

stereotype of girl. Aladeen later accepts Zoey's job offer, as she is catering at the

hotel where the signing is to occur. As Aladeen is a store manager, he punches the

customer for no reason. He even get the man out while urinating just to clean the

restroom, then he throws a garbage can just as the taxi passes. He kicks the kid

after he drops anything displayed in the store. Aladeen confronts the worker who

stole the money from the cashier's box. He help a women to give birth in the store

and want to throw the baby because it is a girl.

B. Approach of the Study

The approach that is used in order to analyze this study is feminist

approach. The study focuses on the struggle of women who deal with a person

that comes from a patriarchal society, so the writer uses the feminist point of view

in order to analyze the women struggle.

Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace in Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary

explains that feminist implies an intellectual commitment to achieving gender

class, and racial equality, and it often sees all aspects of culture, especially

literature as the site to transfer the ideas and as a means of eventual change (2009:

vii)

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In conclusion, feminists, who see women as a significant human being

compared to men, think that it is not fair that life is dominated by men, while

women are only the “insignificant Other”. The aim of the study is to critics the

gender discrimination. Thus, the feminist approach is the most appropriate

approach to be used in this study.

C. Method of the Study

In this thesis, the writer used the library research as the method to collect

the data. The research was done by collecting some books and any other sources

that were related to analyze the movie script. The writer takes the movie script as

an object and the material of the research.

There were two sources that were applied in this research: the primary

data and the secondary data. The primary data in this research is the movie itself,

The Dictator. The secondary data is taken from some critical works and some

relevant books that concern with the movie and the explanation psychoanalysis

and feminism theory.

In this thesis, there were four steps which were done by the writer. The

first is the writer uses the movie in a form of script text and read it. The main

source of data the script of The Dictator will be read repeatedly and

comprehended deeply. The writer focuses on the two major characters in order to

analyze the gender discrimination. After reading and understanding the script the

writer formulated some problem formulations that can be used as the writing

guidelines.

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The second step was finding and understanding a theory on characterization to be applied in the study. This theory was used by the writer to analyze further the character in the novel in order to answer the problem formulation

The third step was to answer the problem formulations stated in the first chapter. The writer tried to answer the problem formulation by using the sources above.

The last step was to draw the conclusion based on the analysis that has been discussed above.

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CHAPTER IV

ANALYSIS

This chapter discusses the two problems as stated in the first chapter.

The first part discusses the first problem which is about the gender discrimination

presented through the main character. Secondly, the focus is to answer the second

problem about how the characters criticize the gender discrimination.

A. The main characters describe in the movie script of The Dictator.

The writer first focuses on the discussion about the main character,

Aladeen and Zoey. There are only two characters that are analyzed in the study

and in order to understand the characteristics the characters the writer uses

Murphy’s theory on character and characterization. The writer uses only 5 ways

which are, personal description, character as seen by another, speech, reactions,

and direct comments.

1. Aladeen

In the beginning, the movie shows that Aladeen was raised in dictator

family. His father educated Aladeen to be his successor which is a great dictator

of Wadiya. Basically, his character is developed from a very young age by his

surroundings. His characteristics are described through his action, conversation

and the author’s description which can be found in the script.

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a. Narcissistic

Aladeen is a narcissistic person. He recently hosted his own Olympic

Games at which he won fourteen gold medals. He won all that medals by shooting other contestants on their legs so they can’t pass Aladeen. He loves to be the winner and having those medals no matter what because he has right to do that.

No one dares to complain or protest him about this action. Aladeen owns the country and he will do anything that makes him happy. He doesn’t care about his people. He loves himself and he thinks that he can have anything. The Olympic

Games is just a thing that he creates to make him more famous and powerful.

Basically, he creates the Olympic for himself not for the good of his people. It is made for him to have the medals. There is no point at all for him to join the

Olympic because he is not an athlete. The point of the Olympic is for Aladeen to win it. The Olympic is for Aladeen to have medals and so people will love him as a champion of the Olympic.

Narcissistic is an excessive or erotic interest in oneself and one’s physical appearance. The behavior that indicates narcissistic in Aladeen is that he willing to distort facts and change events to suit their own agenda. He also lacks of sympathy for others, especially those they exploit.

In the script he shot all of his competitors that are about to pass him and he didn’t feel guilty about it. It is all about his agenda to win the medals and be the champion of the Olympic and he has right to do that just because he rules the country.

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Aladeen also makes his own Golden Globes to make him an actor who wins it. He creates his own competition and also make himself a winner of it.

“ I am Wadiya's number one actor, You don't win four Wadiyan Golden Globes for nothing.” “Yes, you do, because you gave them to yourself!” (p. 48)

From his childhood, he was thought to be powerful and in control of everything by his father. It makes him learn that it is the right way to be a leader of his country. That it is right to act like that with his people and not even care about them. He becomes very narcissistic and selfish person because it is the only way that he knows to be a person. His personality formed to be like this because his father made him to be.

b. Stubborn

Aladeen with his power as a supreme leader of Wadiya is a stubborn person. He is in the middle of his project which is making nuclear weapon to attack other country. In this project, he hired people who are expert in the field of nuclear. In the making of this nuclear weapon, Aladeen is very unclear and random about what he wants. He wanted this nuclear to be scary and intimidating for his enemy. However, in the proses of making this nuclear weapon he often have conflict with his scientists about the shape of the weapon. Aladeen himself have no basic on science and he decided that he knows everything about nuclear than his scientists. He insists that it will be more powerful if the nuclear have pointy shape and people will scared if the front of it is pointy. While in the other hand, the scientists told him that it is unnecessary to make the nuclear pointy.

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“It is too round on the top. It needs to be pointy. Round is not scary. Pointy is scary. This will put a smile on the faces of the enemy. They will think that it is a huge robot dildo flying toward them.” “No, Supreme Leader. The shape of the missile top has nothing to do with aerodynamics, It is about the payload delivery.” (p. 5)

Aladeen makes it a serious problem while the expert who has more experience and reliable knowledge told him that it is not necessary to make it pointy. This is just because Aladeen is the supreme leader of the country and everyone should agree on everything he said. At the end of the argument, the scientists still insist to make the nuclear round and Aladeen did not listen to them.

He starts telling his theory about the nuclear weapon like hi is the expert of it.

Turns out that his theory about nuclear weapon are from cartoon. All of his theory is nonsense and not reliable but he is so sure about this. Not only extremely sure but he is very stubborn and did not listen to the experts. He insists that his theory is not from cartoons.

“Supreme Leader, I think perhaps some of your information about bombs is coming from cartoons.” “Nonsense. They were research films, And in them, the victims of the bomb would get very sooty faces and then a see-through version of themselves started rising up towards Heaven while playing a harp.” “In this film, just one question, was there a duck who, when the explosion is happens, his bill goes around to the back of his head, and then in order to talk, he has to put it back this way?” “There was somebody who suffered a deformity like that.” “Okay. I am now 100% sure that you are watching cartoons.” “Have you spoken to the experts about this? Have you consulted Professor Bobeye?” “Who?” “Professor Bobeye, the one with the incredibly strong forearms that are miss -sized for his body” “The man you are discussing is called Popeye.” “Bobeye.” “He is not a professor.” “Popeye is, as the song tells us, a sailor man.” (p. 6)

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Aladeen insists that the information about nuclear he got is not from cartoon but all the things he said are match to the cartoon itself. To disagree with him is a bad idea even though he is wrong. Aladeen finally executes his scientists just because he is telling the truth about the nuclear. And because of Aladeen’s information that based on cartoons that he believes is right, he didn’t listen to

Nadal his scientists and execute him. This is the evidence of the stubbornness of

Aladeen.

c. Ignorant

Aladeen was raised to have control of everything in the country.

Everything is about him and nothing else. He created rules and policy that are useless and disadvantageous for his people. He does not care about what will happen to his people before he decided to change or make any policy. He even does that just for fun and without a certain purpose. There’s no one who dares to resist his command because that person will be executed. His people forced to obey Aladeen’s rule just because they are afraid of him. There’s no other way besides to obey the rules and policy. One of the policy that he made just for his own importance is that he changes many of the Wadiyan words into “Aladeen” without thinking any further about the positive and negative words. There are so many words that he changes that result a massive mass for his people.

He changed over 300 Wadiyan words to "Aladeen, " including the words "positive" and "negative," causing mass confusion. (p. 3)

This is also an evidence of his narcissism and his ignorant to his people. He only thinks about his popularity and the fact that people will talk about

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Aladeen in their daily life. People will use his name in their everyday conversation and having difficulties on understanding the meaning of it because there are so many words that are changed into “Aladeen”.

“Do you want the Aladeen news or the Aladeen news?” “The Aladeen news?” “You are HIV-Aladeen” (p. 3)

d. Eccentric

Aladeen is an eccentric person. He often does something that is bizarre for normal people. He doesn’t do the normal thing because he does it on his own way and it is always eccentric. It is because no one dares to tell him how to do something like normal people do. He lives in his own rule and world.

When he does an interview with a TV station about the nuclear weapon that he builds, he does that with his own way. He won’t answer the question about he having a nuclear weapon in a bizarre and eccentric way. He pretends that he didn’t listen to what the host was question about. In the other hand, the host repeated the question over and over but Aladeen act like he can’t hear the voice of the host.

“Do you have nuclear weapons?” “What was the question'?” “Do you have nuclear weapons?” “Sorry, I can't hear you.” “Are you developing nuclear weapons?” “No, I literally can't hear you.” “I'm going to another question.” “Oh, I can hear you now.” (p. 2)

Aladeen comes to America in the first place to sign a constitution on making his country Wadiya into democracy. This mission is highly supported by his uncle Tamir. However, Aladeen himself doesn’t want his country to be

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democracy because it will just become an opportunity for other country to get in and freely exploit the oil resources of his land. However uncle Tamir wants to take advantages on this constitution. He will become wealthy by letting Wadiya become democracy.

“Once that constitution is signed, I will be able to sell Wadiya's oil rights, Gazprom, you will have control of Wadiya's southern oil fields. (p. 29)

Uncle Tamir replaces Aladeen with the double and shave Aladeen’s remarkable beard that makes him lose his power. Aladeen is very famous with his beard and without his beard no one notice him as a Supreme Leader, Aladeen. He suddenly has no power at all. In the middle of his frustration, he met Nadal and luckily he is willing to help Aladeen. On their mission to get Aladeen’s power back, they boarded a helicopter to find a blind spot of the building that will use to sign the agreement. They boarded the tourist helicopter and Nadal told Aladeen to dress and act like normal American people. Aladeen decided to wear a sweat-suit that is basically an American flag to convince people that he is American.

“Here is the plan, We're going to take this helicopter tour and fly ove the Lancaster to spot its weaknesses, Remember, we're just two ordinary American tourists looking at the sights.” (p. 48)

“No, your guy wears an American flag sweat-suit and a sheriff's badge.” (p. 49)

He also tells other tourist that is going to board the helicopter with them that he is a true American in very bizarre way. Instead of being normal he tells them and insist that he is an American.

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“I love being an Americans! America is number one! Oh, I am from U.S.A.! My father also from U.S.A. My great-grandfather fought in the American Civil Jihad. I am very proud to be an American, I am America's number one douche.” (p. 53)

e. Violent

Being a dictator in his country, Aladeen can do anything with his

power. There are no boundaries to him as he is the supreme leader of Wadiya.

Under his control, Aladeen can decide to kill someone or oppress someone. It is

very easy to him to end someone’s life and feel nothing about it.

He is a very violent person that even a simple reason to him can make

him upset and execute someone. When he’s about to go downstairs he

accidentally bump with someone and they suddenly stop in the middle because the

other guy is blocking Aladeen’s way. Aladeen just smiles and act like there’s

nothing to worry about. But in the end, when they finally can pass each other,

Aladeen tell his men to execute this person. He doesn’t like that kind of situation

and it makes him upset. He has the right to execute that person without anyone

dares to protest or defend.

It is just a simple reason for Aladeen to execute people. The fact That

other people’s life is doesn’t have any meaning to him is just representing his

cruelty. The idea of killing or taking other’s life for his own agenda is just a

common thing for him. When he decided to execute Nadal, the head of his nuclear

research, it is because of his own stubbornness. Nadal tries to tell Aladeen that the

shape of the nuclear has nothing to do with the quality of it. It has to be round at

the top because the component of it needs to be put on a round shape. Aladeen

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insists that it has to be pointy because it will look scarier and intimidating.

Aladeen and Nadal finally having a serious argument over shape of the nuclear.

At the end, Nadal realizes Aladeen’s information about this nuclear is from

cartoon. Aladeen who doesn’t like his opinion being rejected, execute Nadal

who’s trying to tell him the right information. He doesn’t want his opinion to be

put down by anyone else even though it is wrong and didn’t make any sense. As

this executes thing is just a small thing to him, he easily can forget about the

people that he put to death.

“You had Nadal executed, Supreme Leader.” (p. 5)

At the other chance when he controls of the progress of the nuclear he

still asking for Nadal to give him explanation. He didn’t remember that he already

put Nadal to execution.

2. Zoey

a. Confident

Zoey is a confident person. She’s always sure about herself. It can be

seen in the way she creates her appearance and even though it is different with the

girl in common she’s still feeling sure about that.

Her body is short and she has short hair. She is not that kind of girl who

wears something feminine. She likes to wear anything that is comfortable to her.

She is a very open minded person and she doesn’t force herself to fit in any beauty

standard. She doesn’t mind about any kind of person to her place without looking

their race, skin color, religion or sexual orientation. She likes everything natural

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and honest. What she doesn’t like is racist, cruelty and disrespect. All of those things she doesn’t like is all existed in Aladeen.

Zoey with her appearance welcome Aladeen to her place to offer him a job. Aladeen without his beard put himself under cover and change his name to

Allison Burger. Zoey knows him as Allison whose she very openly welcomes to her place and she doesn’t suspect anything suspicious from Aladeen.

The first time Zoey and Aladeen meets each other is when they both in the rally. Zoey with so many people who protest about Aladeen coming to

America met the Aladeen itself without knowing that he is Aladeen. She knows him as Allison, Wadiyan dissident, when they have to run away from chaos of the protest, riding motorcycle. Aladeen quickly made up his name from any random words he read along the way. The first impression Aladeen got from Zoey is that she is a boy. Zoey wears tee-shirt and jeans jumpsuit and Aladeen holding her breasts from her back. He thought she is a boy so he assumed it is fine for him to hold her that way. Aladeen realizes that Zoey is a girl when she told him to put his hands away from her breast. Aladeen got very shocked because he didn’t think at all that Zoey is a girl because her breast is not that big.

“Allison, could you please take your hands off my breasts?” “Those are breasts? I thought you were a boy.”(p. 31)

Zoey takes Aladeen to her store in Brooklyn. She explains to Aladeen that her store is the Free Earth Collective store that is vegan, feminist, non-profit cooperative operating within an anti-racist, anti-oppressive framework. She dedicated her store to people of all or no genders. She claims that her store is a pure democracy that everybody is very welcome to that place.

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“This is my store! This is the Free Earth Collective, We are a vegan, feminist, non-profit cooperative operating within an anti-racist, anti- oppressive framework for people of all or no genders, We are a pure democracy, just like Wadiya's going to be soon!” (p. 31-32)

Zoey grows her underarm hair and act normal like it’s just a part of her and nothing to be shame of. She’s really sure about her body, her clothes, and her underarm hair. Aladeen with his way of seeing women in his place Wadiya is so much different with the way Zoey saw it. Aladeen put women in the second class think that women are not important. He also has the beauty standard about what should women look like. This point of view he got is because the only way he knew is like that. Women should have a big size of breast, women must obey men, women should look like one and all the standard that the society makes.

Aladeen treats women as an object and he thinks that it is the right way to do because that’s the only way he knows. He was raised to that kind of men from his father.

“Okay. Time out! Time out.” “Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Shave your under-the-arms!” “I dread to think what kind of jungle you have on your malawachl” “That is very inappropriate.” (p. 35)

As seen in the conversation above, it is not common for women to have

underarm hair. Society thinks that it is not appropriate for women to have it.

Somehow when women have underarm hair it is a terrible idea. It is different

when it comes to men who have underarm hair. There’s no such thing like

terrible idea when men grow his underarm hair. It is common for men to have it.

Zoey doesn’t want to follow this kind of stereotype because she doesn’t like the

way society determine women in certain way. Women should be seen as the

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same with men. There are no differences between how to be men and how to be

women. Both women and men can play the same role and Zoey is very much

like that kind of idea.

b. Courageous

Zoey who is a human right activist is a courageous woman. It can be seen in her action when she participates in demonstration and helping Aladeen to escape from the chaos that happens there. She got no fear at all to speak about the truth. She willingly fights for the human right and for all mankind.

With her courageous, she creates a place that is for everybody, a place that welcome anyone without seeing their race or religion or sexual orientation.

To maintain such place like that in the middle of societies which are not always open about that is a brave step. She has to deal with her circumstances and dare to be different and true.

“You know what? You people, you make me sick! You see a Middle Easterner on an aircraft and you just assume that he's hatching some violent plot? Allison Burgers is a persecuted dissident, not a murderous madman!” (p. 54-55)

Zoey has to get Aladeen out from the jail. He was arrested because two other people who board the helicopter with them, suspect him and Nadal as a terrorist. It is the way they talk with their language and mention Osama Bin Laden several times. The other passenger looks terrifying when Aladeen shows Nadal his back braces. They thought that the back brace is a bomb. It gets more terrifying when Aladeen shows off his English skill to Nadal by counting down from five. It

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looks like they are about to explode the helicopter with bomb and they are counting down the time for it to explode.

“Hey, have your old back problems been bothering you?” “Oh, it's been terrible! It got so bad that I made myself a back brace. Really?” “Yes, look, I'm still wearing it, Hey. my English is getting good I bet I can count down from five faster than you can! Five, four, three, two, one!” (p. 54)

Aladeen and Nadal finally have to go to the jail because of this misunderstanding and Zoey help them to get out. She hates that the reason they were in jail is because of their race. The other passenger thought they are terrorists just because they are Middle Eastern people. Zoey doesn’t tolerate any kind of discrimination like racist. She is very upset about this, because she’s been against it for so long. She is very brave to speak up and fight for the right thing. Zoey is in her top of emotion when she yelled to the officer. Aladeen who watches her action when defending him starts to admire her.

c. Open minded

Zoey is an open minded person. She has the capacity to accept any kinds of people without hesitating. In her store she tries to get as much as possible people to have a place. In this place everyone will be accepted as who they are.

Zoey as a person applies her quality to this place as her representative. To become open to anyone, she starts with hiring people without thinking about where they come from, what are their race, how are their past life. She believes in people no matter how bad their past are. She willingly opens with any chance of goodness

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no matter how small. The appreciation she gave to that people is priceless and makes them feel important.

“Okay. Well, hey, Allison, you knew, we'd love to have you work here if you ever wanted to. All of our employees are political refugees, just like you! There's Hannah over here. She's from El Salvador. She's a really useful member of our team.” “Useful as what?” “A coat hanger?” “Come on. Allison, that's not funny” “Okay. I tell you what, get back to work, Captain Hook! Captain Hook. It's funny.” “No, it's not funny.” “Who's that?” “Oh, this is Joteph. He's from a Sudanese tribe that has no concept of money. His entire village was ransacked.” (p. 34-35)

She wants to make the place more useful and well-known by the people

. By this point, she tries to upgrade the store and make some progress because she knows that her store will be helping so many people who in need.

d. Kind

Zoey is a kind person. She lives very open to anyone and wants to help people. At the beginning of her meeting with Aladeen at the demonstration, she doesn’t have any hesitation to help him. She knows for sure that Aladeen is an

Eastern and the fact that she’s in the middle of protesting the coming of Aladeen who is also Eastern doesn’t change her mind to help. Although she knows

Aladeen as Allison whose she believes as a Wadiyan descendent.

She doesn’t determine anybody by race, religion or sexual orientation.

When she finds the good on people she will very open to accept them and be kind with them.

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Zoey thinks very wide and not only about herself. When she decides to hire Aladeen, she thinks about his life. She thinks about where he’ll gonna stay, and other things that actually none of her business. She thinks about helping people as many as possible. She willingly makes her place into anyone’s place to go.

“Okay. Well, hey, Allison, you knew, we'd love to have you work here if you ever wanted to. All of our employees are political refugees, just like you!” (p. 34)

Zoey thinks about people who don’t have home and have wander by themselves. She helps people that are political refugees by giving them job. That is very big step oof making them and treat them a real human. There’s a great humanity in Zoey. It makes her think about how to put back hope in their life.

People who are refugees mostly not welcome and end up become homeless. They who have been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution or natural disaster didn’t have much choice. However, it’s always hard for them to even find job because nobody wants to hire them. People have so much suspicion towards refugees because they come from other country that people don’t understand. The fact that people does not understand who they are making them afraid to open up and help.

Zoey doesn’t have any bad suspicion toward these refugees she hired.

She considered them as human same as her. She gives them chance to live a better life. She basically creates the store for people who need, just like them. She just helps anyone who need with positive mind and does not judge them

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B. The issues of gender discrimination criticized through the characters.

The Dictator is a comedy film that are full of criticizing toward discrimination. The writer uses the movie script of The Dictator as the object of th e research.

Gender discrimination is one thing that will be discussed any further by the writer. There are many scenes that indicate discrimination toward women in this movie script. The writer will break down all the scenes one by one and analyze the discrimination in it.

1. Women are simply an object for men

Aladeen was raised by his father who was also a dictator, as the result he also become a very heartless person like his father. He’s been thought to project women as an object. He treats women like they are not important and unwanted.

He always got what he wants to include having sex with celebrity and pay them for that. Instead of making a meaning relationship with someone, the only way he knows about having romance with someone is to pay them to do that.

In The Dictator movie script, Aladeen has to pay Megan Fox a rolex in order to have an intimate romance for a couple hours. He treats her as an object that have to fulfill his desire. Aladeen has done this objective discrimination for so many times. He sometimes feels so empty and alone when he doesn’t have anyone to become his object. However, this is the only way he knows about how to treat a women.

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“Megan, you were worth every penny, You were super hot.” (p. 13)

What happen with Aladeen’s daily life is because his surroundings. He used to get women to be his pleasure object because for him that’s what women should be doing. Women’s life is for men’s world. Women existence is to serve men both in social and sexual terms. In this scene, Aladeen’s double are treated the same with Aladeen by Tamir. Tamir sends some women to the double’s room to serve him in sexual pleasure. It is the only thing those women should do.

According to Tamir, women’s talent is nothing else but to pleasure men in sexual.

Those women are considered as a sexual object and that’s what Tamir addresses them.

The double who was live on the mountain and only know about goats got shocked and confused. It is because he never thought to do so by his surroundings.

He lives in the place where he only takes care of his goats. There are no societies who tell him to object women as a sexual pleasure. He ends up treat those women the same way he treated goats.

“What are you doing?” “She tried to milk me!” “No, They are trying to pleasure you. Allow the girls to use their many talents.” (p. 37)

The phenomenon of marginalizing women in any aspect of life can also be seen in The Dictator. When zoey have to help Aladeen to get out from jail, she speaks up for Aladeen’s discrimination. She stands up for her qualities. It can be seen that Aladeen still don’t get the idea of respect that Zoey represents on her. He wants to thank Zoey about her help that time by commanding her to give him a

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sexual pleasure. He calls it a gift. A gift should be something that is given to show favor toward someone. It is about an act of giving. Instead of giving something,

Aladeen commanding sexual pleasure from Zoey, the one he say thanks to. In this part, the way he expresses gratitude is only disadvantages Zoey who is women.

Aladeen considers Zoey as a sexual object for his own advantages. Again, in this movie, women have to deal with people who treat them as an object rather than treat them as a human.

“Allison. Hi. To thank you for what you did today at the police station, I have decided to bestow upon you a gifi.” “That's sweet. What is it? Yeah I don't know what that is.” “It's fine. Please, gobble up my little mouse. Snack on my tiny raisin. Give her a mouth bath. Go.” Oh! No! No, I am not” (p. 59)

2. Women education is not necessary

Another discrimination related to gender is that women who have education are useless according to Aladeen’s point of view. This is something very common that happens in his country of Wadiya. He sees women who have education as an entertainment to him and other men. It is nothing for women to have education because in their life they will not allow to be more intelligent than men. This is a discrimination that limits the mobility of women despite of anything that women can do with their education. It is useless because women are not allowed to use that knowledge and develop their ability toward something. For

Aladeen, it is just simply an entertainment shows because no matter how intelligent a woman is, she will never be treated equal with men.

“I love it when women go to school, It's like seeing a monkey on rollerskates. It means nothing to them, but it's so adorable for us.” (p. 34)

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Women’s education did not change the patriarchal nature of Wadiya society. Women in every field are subordinate to men. Men are threatened by educated women. They will choose women whose education are lower than theirs.

It will be easier for them to take control of women and forming them into whatever they wish. It is always about what men want the women to be. They consider women as an object that men can easily form. Lower education makes women lack of knowledge and self-confident. The education is important for women to have a strong guide to fight for their freedom. That it is not right for men to treat them badly as an object is something that women should learn and understand so they can manage themselves to stay away from that. Women movement and every day mobility is limited by various rule and norms.

3. The existence of women is not important

Women’s existence seems has no significant at all. Aladeen in his journey of become one of the worker at Zoey’s store have to deal with some event which is related to discrimination. The way he handles those events also determines his way of thinking about how to treat women and other people. His objectivity towards women is in the point where he can throw a baby like it is a thing just because the baby is a girl. He claims himself as a person that has medical experience because it is an easy thing for him to give himself that recognition. In his role as a person with medical education background, he offers to help the labor. After his action on helping the women, the baby finally born.

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He was intended to throw the baby when he suddenly realizes that the baby is a girl. The mother and father of the baby convinces Aladeen that the baby is exactly what they wanted. Aladeen got confused but hand them the baby instead.

This is representing how useless a women life is for even to be born as a female is a wrong thing for Aladeen. His intention to throw the baby shows his lack of empathy toward humanity. As a human, women or men have the same right to live and deserve the same chance to grow. Suddenly, a baby born has no meaning by knowing the gender. The fact that the baby is human who has right to live is disappearing just because it is a girl.

“Sorry. Oh, no.” “ What's wrong?” “I'm sorry. It's bad news, It's a girl, Where's the trash can'?” “No, no, no, no! That's what we wanted!” (p. 81)

Aladeen feels sorry about the couple because their baby is a girl. It is a wrong thing and sad for Aladeen to tell them about that. In the other hand, it is different if it is a boy because a boy is priceless and more valuable than girl.

Because girl in their future as their society treats her is nothing else but a second class of the society. Their existence will be not important at all according to

Aladeen.

He thinks that listening to everyone’s opinion is a stupid thing and not important since he will not able to force his own importance. Thinking about other’s importance is the worst thing for Aladeen including women’s importance.

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This is not only discrimination toward women but also discrimination toward other race.

“Democracy is the worst! Endless talking and listening to every stupid opinion! And everybody's vote counts, no matter how crippled or black or female they are.” (p. 100)

Women position in Wadiya is insignificant. Women have no full right on their own life and even to be heard is an impossible thing. The situation above shows how women become a victim of patriarchal society in Wadiya. Their voice is not counting, means their life and existence is not important.

At the end of the story of The Dictator, Aladeen got married to Zoey at his country. He finally changes his country into democracy and for the first time held a free election for the president. At the end, Aladeen still elected as president because he forces his people to vote for him by threatening them. Aladeen threat his people while the election was held by pointing tank on them. As the result,

Aladeen is the president who runs the country.

The wedding celebration is huge and the people of Wadiya are happy about that. After all of that happiness, both Aladeen and Zoey are invited to a TV show. They are invited to have a talk show to discuss about marriage. In the middle of the show, Zoey decided to announce her pregnancy on TV. Aladeen who heard this directly forces her to have an abortion if the baby inside is a girl.

He will only expect boy and nothing else. His will on not accepting the baby if it is a girl is discrimination toward women.

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Aladeen’s reaction on Zoey’s pregnancy shows how women treated as an unwanted thing that can easily to be thrown. Such oppression and restriction then underlie another discrimination for women in the story of The Dictator.

Aladeen is the one who decide the limits on women’s existence. Women are not given the same opportunity as what men have. Their nature as women and as a fundamentally oppressed class has put them in a lower position compared to men. This scene shows how women of Wadiya experience that sort of things on the dictatorship of Aladeen. Women are restricted by the norm in the patriarchal

Wadiya society. Zoey in this scene is become the victim of Aladeen’s brutality.

She was threat because of something that she can’t control. She has no capability to control the sex of the baby inside her.

“So, we're opening” “But I'm going to have to take a break for a little bit because I'm pregnant.” “What? Are you having a boy or an abortion?” (p. 105)

The resistance of women toward the gender discrimination that revealed in the script was shown very clear. Women are seen as inferior that is lower than man. Women do not have power to resist the unequal treatment. The discrimination in the society has got women to be voiceless because men define what it means to be women. Zoey’s rights on her own body and child has been taken away and there is nothing she can do. All of the oppression towards women is the result of Aladeen’s dictatorship. He creates his own rule and his people must live with it. Men can do what they like and women are left without power.

Women’s rights are limited due to gender reason only. They are being oppressed because of their sex that they don’t have control on.

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4. Women have to fulfill the beauty standard

Society in their years of years creating what certain gender should look like makes women and men have a huge gap on their appearance. It is a shame for certain gender if they are not look like what society makes them to. Zoey in her journey of life is dealing with society that sets a standard on how women should dress, how women should cover their body and how they feel about it, how women should make certain appearance on her body.

However, Zoey with her open minded thinking doesn’t want to be determined by the society. She dresses the way she wants to and she feels comfortable with that. The most things she cares about is that she comfortable with her own body and society can’t control that. Society has no right about her part of body and she fights for her freedom on choosing what kind of action she wants to do with it. She knows exactly what she wants toward her appearance and the way people see her don’t make her hesitate at all. Zoey is a very confidant women and she grows her under-arms hair and she feels right about that. When she has an argument with Aladeen about the way Aladeen talk impolitely, she tries to calm him down and tell him that he was done wrong. For a moment

Aladeen saw Zoey’s under-arm hair and got very shocked to see it. It is very inappropriate for women to have under-arm hair because it’s just not right.

Aladeen was raised in society that does not really open to that kind of situation.

The society forms Aladeen into one of them who think the same. He’s not used to

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see women with under-arm hair. However, it is right for men to have it but women don’t.

The fact that it is disgusting for Aladeen makes Zoey feel insult. She’s upset because for her it is inappropriate to criticizing her body part. Aladeen who determines by the society has to deal with Zoey who doesn’t want to determine by the society. She can’t stand the way Aladeen sees her under-arm hair. It is the part of her who she considers as her body. She sees it the same way she sees her other part of body. She feels unnecessary for her to shave it. It is revealed that many women experience inequalities in their life. This inequality between men and women are created by the society. Women mostly become the victim of this because their presence and opinion is not even considered. Women experience discrimination more than men. It is because women are mostly seen as inferiors.

In making decision men usually do not care about the opinion of women. Women should obey what men say because that’s the way society made them to for long time. Discrimination occurs every time it comes to life decision such as growing under-arm hair.

“Shave your under-the-arms! I dread to think what kind of jungle you have on your malawachl.” “That is very inappropriate.” “Don't tell me what to say and what not to say, little boy.” (p. 35)

Such discrimination makes women always be in the harmed party

because they are seems insignificant.

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5. Women are not allowed to be independent

Women are not allowed to decide anything for her own importance.

Men should tell women about what are allowed and not allowed for them. If even the fact that her existence itself is not allowed, then women that have existed and live will get oppressed and treated badly by men.

Aladeen, on his visit to America bring his discrimination thinking along his journey. Women are not allowed to drive a car in his place. In his dictatorship, he doesn’t allow this thing happen because only the men who are allowed to drive car and have their own decisions. Women have no right to do so because their existence didn’t count and women are just unimportant creation. Their voice or rights are not necessary to be heard. By this reason,

Aladeen doesn’t want to sign the constitution because his country will be more open about women existence. If his country changes from dictatorship into democracy, women in his place will have rights on themselves. Women will be able to fight for their own decision and choices. They will allow women to drive and make their existence more significant.

“If this constitution is signed, there will be free press, women drivers, civil rights!” (p. 89)

Aladeen thinks that changing his country into democracy is a worst idea because he will no longer be the one who leads everything. He hates the fact that if his country becomes democracy, he has to listen to everybody’s opinion and consider it as an important thing. He claims that democracy is the

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worst because everybody including the one who have different skin color and women turn to have rights to vote.

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CHAPTER V

CONCLUSION

This chapter consists of the conclusion of the analysis of the undergraduate thesis. The thesis focuses on the gender discrimination toward women in The Dictator movie. Therefore, there are two problems that must be answered in the thesis. The first problem is how the main characters are described in the novel. The second problem is how are the characters criticize the gender discrimination.

There are two main characters that are described in the movie of The

Dictator, they are Aladeen and Zooey. By using Murphy’s theory on character and characterization, it can be concluded that Aladeen, as one of the main character, is described as narcissistic, stubborn, ignorant, eccentric and violent.

Another main character are Zoey. Through her reaction toward certain situations, her speech can be concluded that she is confident, courageous, open minded and kind.

The second problem that is analyzed in the thesis is about the gender discrimination that is criticized in The Dictator movie. In the analysis, the critics of gender discrimination that appears in several scenes are being explained one by one.

Women’s rights are limited due to gender reason. Their existence is not important and their voice is never being heard. The conclusions of the critics toward gender discrimination are, first, women are simply an object for men.

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Secondly, women education is not necessary. Thirdly, the existence of women is not important. Fourth, women have to fulfill the beauty standard. Fifth, women are not allowed to be independent.

The Dictator portrays the gender discrimination through the scenes that appears. It tries to criticize the discrimination on the story with the touch of comedy. The critics revealed in the story deliver the idea that women are insignificant and should not exist.

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APPENDIX

SUMMARY OF THE DICTATOR

The Dictator tells about a person who raised from a father who is a dictator and now become dictator like his father. He is Aladeen. He is the ego maniacal dictator of Wadiya who's hated by practically everyone in his country, even his confidants. He goes to New York to speak at the assembly about his country's nuclear weapons. But suddenly someone assigned to protect him, grabs him and shaves off his trademark beard and was about to kill him when something happens and he escapes, He tries to go to the UN but his people have placed a double in his place and he speaks to the UN announcing he plans to turn Wadiya into a Democracy. Aladeen tries to go in but is kept out. He is taken in by a woman name Zoey who was there protesting Aladeen.

He thinks that zoey is a boy because her appearance is unlike the stereotype of girl. Aladeen later accepts Zoey's job offer, as she is catering at the hotel where the signing is to occur. As Aladeen is a store manager, he punches the customer for no reason. He even gets the man out while urinating just to clean the restroom, then he throws a garbage can just as the taxi passes. He kicks the kid after he drops anything displayed in the store. Aladeen confronts the worker who stole the money from the cashier's box. He helps a women to give birth in the store and want to throw the baby because it is a girl.

He finally falls in love with Zoey and tell her that he is Aladeen. Zoey gets very angry because he hates the figure of Aladeen. On the constitution,

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Aladeen tries to make it right and make his country into democracy to win Zoey back. At the end Wadiya held a free election but Aladeen win in a very unfair way and he get married with Zoey. He still run the Country and expecting a child from

Zoey.