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The Personality of Veronica Sawyer in Revealing the Dark Comedy in Heathers PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI THE PERSONALITY OF VERONICA SAWYER IN REVEALING THE DARK COMEDY IN HEATHERS AN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra in English Letters By SONIA LARASAYU Student Number: 154214067 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LETTERS FACULTY OF LETTERS UNIVERSITAS SANATA DHARMA YOGYAKARTA 2019 PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI THE PERSONALITY OF VERONICA SAWYER IN REVEALING THE DARK COMEDY IN HEATHERS AN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra in English Letters By SONIA LARASAYU Student Number: 154214067 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LETTERS FACULTY OF LETTERS UNIVERSITAS SANATA DHARMA YOGYAKARTA 2019 ii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI vii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI viii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First, I would like to express my gratefulness to Allah SWT for His love, guidance, and giving me the ability to finish this undergraduate thesis. I would like to thank my thesis advisor A. B. Sri Mulyani, M.A., Ph. D. for always giving me her patience and guidance in making this undergraduate thesis. I also would like to thank my thesis co advisor Drs. Hirmawan Wijanarka, M.Hum. for helping me in developing ad correcting this undergraduate thesis. I would like to give my gratitude to my parents, Asri S. and Hariyanto, and also to my aunt, Maria Puspawangi, who never stop to keep me sane. The three of them have given me a lot of their bests and love in any forms for me. During the process of making this undergraduate thesis there are many people who never stop giving their full-time support for me. Thank you to Gita Ariesta R, Diana Puspitarini, Laras Mustika Rani, and Angela Merici, my support machine during my study in English Letters Department. Thank you for the great times and all the moments we share together. It is a pleasure to have them around especially during the making of this undergraduate thesis. I also do not forget to thank Jeri for all the understandings and always being here through the good and bad times. Sonia Larasayu ix PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI LIST OF FIGURES No. Figure Page 1. Fig 1. Heather Duke, Heather McNamara, Veronica Sawyer, 28 and Heather Chandler. 2. Fig 2. Veronica hangs herself. 40 3. Fig 3. Veronica opens her eyes after her mother enters the room 41 xii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI ABSTRACT LARASAYU, SONIA. (2019). The Personality of Veronica Sawyer in Revealing the Dark Comedy in Heathers. Yogyakarta: Department of English Letters, Faculty of Letters, Universitas Sanata Dharma. This undergraduate thesis analyzes a dark comedy film. Film is one of art works that is unique and powerful enough to deliver ideas, opinion, and messages to the world. Heathers is a 1988 American dark comedy, the story focuses on Veronica Sawyer, a girl who is a part of the most well-known clique in her school. The film is classified as dark comedy because the film contains dark and gloomy themes which presented in a humorous and comic way. Most of the themes are brought by Veronica, the main character. Her personality reveals the dark comedy in the film. Heathers has a unique and different way of delivering the messages to the audience, that is why this film is worth studying. This study discusses two main issuses. The first one is the personality of Veronica Sawyer, the main character, and the second one is how Veronica’s personality reveal the dark comedy in the film. The method that this study uses is library research because most of the data are collected from books. However, there are some data taken from the internet. This study also uses structuralism as the approach. In order to understand a particular element, studying the whole system of connection or structure is needed. That is why structuralism is chosen because it helps in revealing how the personality of Veronica reveal the dark comedy in the film. This study shows the analysis of Veronica Sawyer’s personality and how her personality reveals the dark comedy in the film. She has several personalities, such as kindhearted, intelligent, revengeful, suicidal, and pathetic. She comes with both good and bad traits. Her personality is related to the theme of dark comedy, which can be concluded that her personality is the one that reveals the dark comedy in the film. Keywords: personality, dark comedy, structuralism. xiii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI ABSTRAK LARASAYU, SONIA. (2019). The Personality of Veronica Sawyer in Revealing the Dark Comedy in Heathers. Yogyakarta: Program Studi Sastra Inggris, Fakultas Sastra, Universitas Sanata Dharma. Skripsi ini menganalisa sebuah film bergenre komedi gelap. Film adalah salah satu dari karya seni yangcukup unik dan kuat untuk menyampaikan ide, opini, dan pesan kepada dunia luar. Heathers adalah film komedi gelap Amerika tahun 1988 yang menceritakan tentang Veronica Sawyer, seorang perempuan remaja yang merupakan anggota klik paling terkenal di sekolahnya. Film ini dikategorikan sebagai komedi gelap karna tema di dalam film ini gelap dan suram yang disajikan dengan cara yang lucu serta jenaka. Tema seperti itulah yang diusung oleh Veronica, pemeran utama dalam film ini. Studi ini mendiskusikan dua permasalahan utama. Pertama adalah kepribadian dari Veronica Sawyer, sang pemeran utama, dan kedua adalah bagaimana kepribadian Veronica memperlihatkan tema komedi gelap di dalam film. Metode yang digunakan dalam studi ini adalah studi pustaka karena data yang dikumpulkan banyak didapat dari buku. Bagaimanapun juga, ada beberapa data yang didapat melalui internet. Studi ini juga menggunakan struskturalisme sebagai pendekatan. Untuk memahami suatu elemen khusus, mempelajari seluruh sistem koneksi atau struktur adalah hal yang harus dilakukan. Maka dari itu, strukturalisme dipilih dalam studi ini karena membantu untuk mengungkapkan bagaimana kepribadian Veronica mampu memperlihatkan komedi gelap di dalam film. Di studi ini menunjukkan analisa dari kepribadian Veronica. Ia memiliki beberapa kepribadian, seperti baik hati, cerdas, seorang penganiaya, seorang yang ingin mengakhiri hidupnya berulang kali, dan seseoramg yang menyedihkan. Veronica memiliki kedua sifat baik dan buruk. Kepribadiannya memiliki korelasi dengan tema komedi gelap, maka bisa disimpulkan bahwa kepribadian Veronica lah yang membawa tema komedi gelap ke dalam film. Keywords: personality, dark comedy, structuralism. xiv PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION A. Background of the Study Art work is a common thing in the daily life. Art work has beauty value and aesthetic in it. It can function as both education and entertainment. Art works can take various forms including film. “Film is recognized as a unique and powerful art form on a par with painting, sculpture, music, literature, and drama” (Boggs & Petrie, 2008, p. 3). Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects. “Film communicates directly, not through abstract symbols like words on a page but through concrete images and sounds” (Boggs & Petrie, 2008, p. 3). Film is one of many art works that is used to deliver ideas, opinion, messages, and many more. Most films are made so that they can be shown on big screens at film theatre and at home. There are many genres of films, such as sci-fi, drama, action, animation, comedy, dark comedy, romance, thriller, horror, and many more. “Film employs the compositional elements of the visual arts: line, form, mass, volume, and texture” (Boggs & Petrie, 2008, p. 3). There are some purposes of film, such as to convey emotions to the audience by providing narrative-stories that are made as real as possible by using visual and audio effect. Films can also raise awareness about certain issues, such as political and social issues that are tend to show the story from the minority’s point of view. Films are concern about giving knowledge about certain subjects matter to the audience. A good film 1 PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 2 usually has certain messages that are successfully delivered to the audience. However, the audiences do not have to agree with the message or the idea, but those films with powerful idea and characters that are able to influence the audience, whether it is their way of thinking or their behavior often assumed as good films. Therefore, film is one of many art works that can be studied. This research has a deeper analysis on the main character’s personality in revealing the genre of the film. A character that has strong identity can be found in many films, such as Heathers, one of classic phenomenal high school film. Heathers, a classic from 1988 written by Daniel Waters. Heathers was directed by Michael Lehmann. This film was released on March 31, 1988 in the United Sates. The film was not a big hit in the box office but become a cult classic, with high rentals and sales business. Cult classic or cult film usually related to something unusual and do not really follow the cliché since they have unique plots, characters, or settings and usually have a big fan base dedicated to a work of culture. Heathers is an American dark comedy that is worth to be studied. The film is not only about the love life in high school, but also how teenagers deal with the society. “Dark comedy is a form of humor that concerns human suffering as ridiculous rather than pitiable, or that considers human existence as ironic and pointless but somehow comic” (Sahini, 2016). Still related to the genre, Giannetti stated that, “genres are distinguished by a personality set of conventions in style, values, and subject matter” (Giannetti, 1987, p.
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