Moral Value from the Character of Alan Turing in “The Imitation Game” Movie

Journal of English Language and literature p-ISSN 2540-8216, e-ISSN 2654-3745 Volume 6, Issue 1, March 2021 https://journal.stibaiec-jakarta/ojs/index.php/jell MORAL VALUE FROM THE CHARACTER OF ALAN TURING IN “THE IMITATION GAME” MOVIE Imaniar Sekolah Tinggi Bahasa Asing IE C Jakarta [email protected] Budiarto Sekolah Tinggi Bahasa Asing IE C Jakarta [email protected] Suhendar Sekolah Tinggi Bahasa Asing IE C Jakarta [email protected] Imaniar, Budiarto and Suhendar (2021). Moral value from the character of Alan Turing in “the imitation game” movie. Journal of English Language and literature, 6(1), 51-58. doi: 10.37110/jell.v6i1.115 Received: 12-01-2021 Accepted: 20-02-2021 Published:06-03-2021 Abstract: The objectives of this research are to describe to discover facts about Alan Turing and the impacts of the characters on his life in order to obtain the moral value of the movie. By using qualitative method, the author describes hidden facts about Alan Turing, especially when he was given a secret mission by the British Empire during World War II to decode from Germany’s Enigma message’s machine. In this movies, his personal life and sexual deviation influence his career. In order to keep his mission going, Turing, the professor pretends to be a normal person by trying love his partner, Ms Clark. He doesn’t get any respects and losses his dignity due to his own deviant behaviors. He is sentenced and has to receive hormone therapy to make him normal and continue his mission. His struggles continue although the government ignores his invention and dedication to his country. Keywords: descriptive, Turing’s facts, deviant behaviors, moral value INTRODUCTION some people who called it as “flaws” becomes Lots of changes that occur around us over time, faded and focused with their achievement. We things that were considered taboo in the past, have found many messages through arts, one of now may be familiar to our ears and views, even them which is literary, and its works can also be they can have a place for some people. Like the found a movie. thing you have heard or seen about the deviation In the Movie that the author adopted into of sexual orientation (Homosexual) which is this study entitled "The Imitation Game the now rife for fighting for rights in various parts of movie, adapted from a true story, tells a hidden the world, and of course this phenomenon fact from the love life of a Cambridge University produces a lot of pros and contras among the Code Expert named Alan Turing, a man who was community and even religious leaders, which given a secret mission by the British Empire causes people take part in issuing their respective during World War II to decode from Germany’s opinions. Enigma message’s machine. Apart from all of that, many of the Apart from his success from helping the “minority group” who called themselves British Empire at the time, there was another side “Different” have an extraordinary talent, then for of Alan Turing who finally revealed as a result 51 Imaniar, Budiarto and Suhendar Moral value from the character of Alan Turing in “the imitation game” movie of the displeasure of his friends and his superiors believable in the context of the story. who initially doubted his ability. Indeed, Alan Consistently does not require the characters Turing does not look different, but he is less remain exactly the same, but that any changes in sociable and hang out with his teammate, character are sufficiently by what happens to whereas at that time most of them had a dates them in a story” (Henderson, 2006). after work or just had fun with the others, until And definition from Marvin Berkowitz, who the Uni Soviet spied to him who graduated from defines character as an Individual’s set of Cambridge University as code expert. psychological characteristics that affect that In short, it was discovered that Alan Turing person’s ability and inclination to function was homosexual, of course it was taboo and a morally (Pawelski, 2010) disgrace because it was considered as Disease at Also In common language, we use the term that time, and finally he was discriminated by to mean either some measure of a person’s many people until he got a punishment goodness (“that really shows a lack of character (Hormonal Therapy). All of his achievements on his part”) or a person’s eccentricity (“she is and successes while carrying out important such a character!”). In both cases, the mission from the British Empire did not bother implication is that we are referring to some the perspective of the people around him, enduring characteristic of the person; although because they focused on something they that is not always the case (his lack of character considered as ‘disabled’. may be out of character for him). (Hausheer et The author wants to explore the moral al., 1933) From the definition above, it can be values that can be obtained from the characters said that the characters that the authors make are in the film in a phenomenon that is occurring not always consistent and sometimes it can around us now, at least it is portrayed in the film, change in the story. In other words, someone here. The previous research found Morals who described as having certain characteristics pervade every aspect of our lives. Thus, moral is motivated by a number of events that want to value holds important roles for everyone. Moral display to the audience. Character is often linked values include motivation, kindness, to the psychological or individual's capacity of a responsibility, honestly, empathy, and respect person to be moral; it may also be used to (Ardayati, 2016) describe an individual as a measure for others. It can be said that the final aim of this study Definition of Deviant Behavior is to take good points into consideration. When Whether the person develops negative self- the time has changed, life turn to basic as human feelings associated with each of these identities do have a same right to live in peace, side by side will determine if the person is more or less with others regardless of whom and how they inclined to engage in “deviant behavior”. are. Like the things that we often encounter, (Kaplan & Lin, 2000) those who were embarrassed to express because Deviant behavior is modeled as the failure they were considered as disgrace, but now they to conform to the expectations of a specified have turned into something they call ‘A gift’. normative system. (Kaplan & Lin, 2000) Although not all of us agree with this statement However, the fate of the deviant behavior of a without we even realize it, their presence has specific individual (group) depends primarily on become common thing in our life at present time. the psychological characteristics of the subjects of social interaction (McCaghy et al., 2016) Definition of Character It can be said that one of the psychological According to Henderson “Character refers to the variables in social interaction is the nature of people authors to create inhabit their stories. each individual's share of the way they handle Character should be believable and consistent. negative feelings that occur within themselves so Being believable means not that all characters be that they later grow into deviant behaviour or like people we have known but they are 52 Journal of English Language and literature p-ISSN 2540-8216, e-ISSN 2654-3745 Volume 6, Issue 1, March 2021 https://journal.stibaiec-jakarta/ojs/index.php/jell not. And for the comprehension of the layman, the audience; also Morals are central in self- the general is also called a failure of interaction. definition in creating a life narrative, growing, meaningful and being the purpose of life. Definition of Sexual Orientation For women/men, sexuality/sexual orientation is Definition of Values a critical dimension of their gender; in fact, it Values are considered as being of great worth or defines it (Peplau & Garnets, 2000) page 269. importance, and are perceived as standards or The phenomena of sexual orientation are principles considered valuable or important in not fixed and universal, but rather highly life. While the first meaning donates value in variable across time and place. (Peplau & physical terms, the second meaning pertains to Garnets, 2000) our behaviour patterns (Seetha, 2005) One fact about sexual orientation garners According to Nurgiyantoro (Nurgiyantoro, near-universal agreement from scientists: It has 2010) value or lesson learned that is gotten by no single cause (reviewed in Bailey et al., in the readers or the listeners is always in a good. press). Rather, multiple biological and no In other words, values are something that is in biological factors interact to shape the adult our lives is used as a measure of what we hold expression of same-sex sexuality, and the mix of fast, trust and respect. Some in physical or causal factors may differ from person to person, behavioural terms, also it is a good thing to be and for males versus females (Peplau & Garnets, shown to the audience. Thus if literary work 2000) displayed the less praiseworthy character, it Here, what the author understands is that a doesn’t mean that the author suggested the vulnerable thing to identify is sexual orientation. audiences to be so. Sexual orientation is the attraction of a person of Understanding the above definitions of the opposite or same-sex, which can change, values and morals by the author, so that moral vary and apply to everyone.

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