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A DESCRIPTION OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN THE MOVIE THE GREATEST SHOWMAN

A PAPER

ELVA RAHMI

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DIPLOMA III ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF CULTURE STUDY

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH SUMATERA

MEDAN

2018

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AUTHOR’S DECLARATION

I am ELVA RAHMI, declare that I am the sole author of this paper. Except where reference is made in the text of this paper, this paper contains no material published elsewhere or extracted in whole or in part from a paper by which I have qualified for or awarded another degree. No other person’s work has been used without due acknowledgement in the main text of this paper. This paper has not been submitted for the award of another degree in any tertiary education.

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Title of Paper: A DESCRIPTION OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN THE MOVIE

THE GREATEST SHOWMAN.

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ABSTRACT

The title of this paper is DESCRIPTION OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN THE

GREATEST SHOWMAN MOVIE. The purpose of this paper is to find the main character. The method used by the author in this paper is a qualitative descriptive method and also browsing the internet. To get the required results, data is taken from the main character in the film The Greatest Showman. They are Phineas Taylor

Barnum and Charity Barnum. Data sources are taken from dialogue between actors in the film to find out the physical appearance, and behavior of the main characters, what they say about themselves, what others say about them, and their environment.

Keywords: Description,Main Characters,Movie.

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ABSTRAK

Judul makalah ini adalah URAIAN KARAKTER UTAMA DALAM FILM THE

GREATEST SHOWMAN. Tujuan dari makalah ini adalah untuk menemukan karakter utama. Metode yang digunakan penulis dalam makalah ini adalah metode kualitatif deskriptif dan juga browsing internet. Untuk mendapatkan hasil yang dibutuhkan, data diambil dari karakter utama di film The Greatest Showman. Mereka adalah Phineas Taylor Barnum dan Charity Barnum. Sumber data diambil dari dialog antara pemeran di film itu untuk mengetahui penampilan fisik, dan perilaku karakter utama, apa yang mereka katakan tentang diri mereka sendiri, apa yang orang lain katakan tentang mereka, dan lingkungan mereka.

Kata Kunci: Deskripsi,karakter,film.

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ACKNOWNLEDGEMENTS First of all, I would like thanks to Allah SWT, for his blessing and gives me health, strength and inspiration to accomplish this paper as one of the requirements to get the Diploma III Certificate from English Study Program Faculty of Culture Studies, University of Sumatera Utara. Also, I would like to express my deep gratitude, love, appreciation, and thanks to: • My Parents, Abdul Roni Pratama and Trisa Agustina who always loving, caring, praying, supporting, and gives me advices in completing this paper. • Dra. Swesana Mardia Lubis, M.Hum. as the Head of Diploma III English Study Program, who gives me a lot knowledge. • Drs. Parlindungan Purba, M.Hum. as my Supervisor, who gives the correction, suggestion and knowledge in completing this paper. • All my lecturer in Diploma III English Study Program who have taught me and gives me advice and knowledge • My beloved Brother And Sister, M.Rizki Ihsan , Mutia Indah Sari, Tengku Adinda Nurhaliza, and Liza Nafira who gives me attention and support when I was completing this paper. • My lovely friends, Anggia Rizki,Yenni Tri Astuti and Group Pejuang TA Thanks for support and help that them give to me and this sweet friendship. I will treasure every moments that I have spent with them. Finally, the writer realize that this paper is still far from being perfect. The writer hope who read this paper may gives critics and suggestions for making it better

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

AUTHOR’SDECLARATION...... i COPYRIGHTDECLARATION...... ii ABSTRACT ...... iii ABSTRAK...... iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS...... v TABLEOFCONTENTS...... vi

1.INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of Study...... 1 1.2 Problem of Study...... 4 1.3 Scope of Study...... 4 1.4 The Objective of The Study...... 5 1.5 The Method of The Study...... 6 II. REVIEW AND RELATED OF LITERATURE 2.1 Movie…………………………………………………….………...... 7 2.2 Character ……………………………………………….…..……....14 III. DESCRIPTION OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS 3.1 Phineas Taylor Barnum ……………………………………..….…..20 3.2 Charity Barnum …………………………………………….……....23 IV. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION 4.1 Conclusion...... 25 4.2 Suggestion ……………………………………………………..…...26

BIBLIOGRAPHY………………………………………………...... ….27 APPENDICES

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CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of The Study

Literature, mostly is defined as the entirely of written expression. Still, there is an understanding that not every written work can be categorized as literature in the more exact meaning of the word. The word aesthetic or artistic are two words that always used to characterize literary work and to diffrenciate it from any other kind of written document such as scholarly writing, legal document or books. Then we find many definitations of literature.

The word ‘ literature ‘ is derived from Latin word littera or letter which means the smallest element of alphabetical writing. The word text that used to name the content of literary works is related to the word textile and it can be translated as fabric, just a single thread from a fabric. Then words and sentences form a meaningful and coherent text.

Richart Taylor in his book Understanding the Elements of Literature (1981:1) says that literature “ like other arts, is essentially an imaginative act, that is, an act of the writer’s imagination in selecting, ordering and interpreting life experience. So, we can see that taylor in defining literature focuses on the activity and the proces of creating literary works.

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The movie is one of the most interesting works of literature that is made in such a way using the associated elements in it to produce something that other people can enjoy. By watching a movie we can take or understand the story or the story that would be conveyed through the contents of the movie.

The writer wants to describe main characters in The Greatest Showman movie. Especially the writer discusses about two characters of the main characters in

The Greatest Showman movie.

This is a movie which tell about the true story of the legendary figure of the entertainment world named Phineas Taylor Barnum (Hugh Jackman) and Charity

Barnum (Michelle Williams). built one of America’s greatest sircus performances in the 1860s, Barnum & Bailey Circus. This movie is played director by Michael

Gracey. This movie was released in December 2017 with 105 minutes duration.

Genre of this movie is musical,biography, and drama.

The Greatest Showman's movie explores the remarkable portions of Barnum's life that were not previously discussed in earlier musicals, for example his anti- slavery campaign. But The Greatest Showman later became a rich man. Start from a glimpse of Barnum's (Hugh Jackman) childhood as a kid of a poor taylor in

Connecticut. In this movie he marrying her girlfriend (Michelle Williams). They have two daughters from her marriage they with their fate, for they were too honorable to worry about money, but Barnum dreamed of making the world a more magical place, and he opened the American Museum in New York.

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First of all, he filled it with a wax statue and a preserved beast that termites eat, and then, on the advice of his adorable daughter, he collects "oddities": a bearded woman (Keala Settle), a boy with a dog face, , and various early hipster types who were given the opportunity to feel proud of their unique attributes and not to be exhibited and exploited.

Barnum accomplished all of this so easily, but when the tickets went on sale, he had to deal with the cocky and smug drunks who disagreed with what he was doing. What he really wants is not to be "The Prince of Fraudsters" but to be accepted among the upper classes. And here's the problem. He hired a rich scriptwriter, Phillip

Carlyle (Zac Efron) to make him look classy, but Carlyle was also denied for holding hands with a black trapeze artist (Zendaya). And when Barnum arranged a tour of a classic soprano known as the "Swedish nightingale bird" (Rebecca Ferguson) to perform at various honorable concert venues in America, there were rumors that their relationship was not just professional.

Phineas Taylor Barnum as the main character shows the world that a person who has deficiencies and be avoided everyone can have extraordinary advantages, and that is proven by Phineas Taylor Barnum by gathering strange people and forming a musical drama or circus. In this case the barnum has a very big soul because his desires are people who are considered weird and have deficiencies can become big stars and known by everyone. because he is convinced that behind the lack there is perfection, not only that, barnum is also very fond of his family because

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the most important thing in his life is the family and happiness of the people around him.

Charity Barnum as the other main character is a kind and loving woman. she is always there when Phineas Taylor Barnum is happy or difficult. because the of happiness charity barnum is to live together with Phineas Taylor Barnum and her family.

The writer of this paper, chose the main characters because they are very important. Besides, the main characters are reflecting the way interact, the way speak, the way deby hade as an individual and social beings.

1.2 The Problem Of Study

The Following are problems of analysis in the paper.

1) How are the main characters described in the movie

the greatest showman?

2) How are the main characters’ behavior described in

the movie the greatest showman?

1.3 The Scope Of The Study

The scope of the study is to description of characters that is Phineas Taylor

Barnum and Charity Barnum they are main characters in The Greatest Showman movie. Phineas taylor barnum is a poor tailor child who is often belittled by the rich in his town and he is a good man. But he fell in love with a girl from a wealthy family. he worked as an accountant in an expedition company and married Charity.

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Although life does not wallow in treasure, both of them always feel happiness to be blessed with two daughters. One day, Barnum was fired from his company for having gone into bankruptcy because the company's shipping vessels were drowning in the storm. Phineas Taylor Barnum started the business by opening a wax museum. After his candle museum business venture did not go well he made a circus or musical drama by gathering strange and unique people who have shortcomings and shunned by society. Barnum helps them to show the society that those who have deficiencies can become big stars. Barnum also loved his family and he works hard to make her family happy. Charity Barnum is a child from a rich family who has a good heart and is full of love. She doesn't see people from wealth. she fell in love with a child from a poor tailor. They are married and have two daughters. Charity Barnum is a skin white and blonde hair woman. she is a patient woman. when her husband went bankrupt she always gave support. And Charity Barnum always forgives her husband's mistakes. because Charity Barnum's happiness is living together with her husband and children.

1.4 The Objective Of The Study

The objective of the study are:

1) To describe the character of Phineas Taylor Barnum in

The Greatest Showman movie.

2) To describe the behavior the character of Charity

Barnum in The Greatest Showman movie.

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1.5 The Method Of The Study

The author uses the method in doing this paper is First, the writer watches and listens to the dialogue in the movie. And then look for the main character in the movie. and also browsing from the internet.

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CHAPTER II

REVIEW OF RELATED

2.1 Movie

In general, the movie (cinema) comes from the word sinematographie which means cinema (motion), tho or phytos (light) and graphie or grhap (writing, image, image). Can be interpreted movie is to paint motion with light. Painting motion with the light using a special tool, usually used is a camera.

Understanding other movies that is, movie is the creation of artwork that has the completeness of various art objects to meet the spiritual needs. Existing art elements and supporting a movie, except for fine arts, photography, architecture, dance, literature, theater, music, dance and novels.

According to Effendi (1986:239) Movie is the result of culture and tool of art display. movie as mass communication is a combination of various technologies for photography and recording, art, art and theater arts and architecture and music art.

Movie History: The Movie was first created in 1805 by Lumiere Brothers.

Then in 1899, George Melies began showing movies with editing style entitled Trip

To The Moon. In 1902, Edwin Peter made a movie called Life Of In American

Fireman.

In Indonesia, films reached their glory in the 70s to 80s or precisely before the inclusion of 1988 Broadcast-Broadcast TV (RCTI). The community is very

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appreciative in responding to movie in Indonesia. This is related to the quality of the movie which can indeed fulfill the psychological and spiritual needs of the

Indonesian people.

In Indonesia, cinema first appeared in Batavia (Jakarta), precisely in Tanah

Abang Kebonjae, on December 5, 1900. However, the presence of this cinema cannot be said to be a milestone in the history of Indonesian movie. The reason, the movie at that time was still imported from abroad. The first story movie produced in Indonesia, precisely in Bandung in 1926. The movie is titled Loetoeng Kasaroeng. This movie can be said to be a reference for Indonesia's movie history milestones. The success of the movie production was inseparable from the involvement of the Bandung regent,

Wiranatakusumah V.

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The Movie Types Among

Movie Story : The story movie (the story movie) is a type of movie that contains a story that is commonly shown in a movie theater with a famous actor or actress and is distributed as a merchandise. The story that is raised into a movie topic can be a fictional story or based on a true focused story, nothing interesting, either from the storyline or in terms of artistic aspect.

News Movies : The news movie (newsreel) is a movie movie that really happened.

Because of the nature of the news then the movie is realized to the public must contain news value. The news rank is important and interesting.

Documentary movie : According to Robert Flaherty, Documentary movie is a creation creation of reality (creative treatment of actuality) is different from the news movie which is a recording of facts, then the documentary is the result of personal interpretation (the author of the truth).

Cartoon : Cartoon (cartoon) movie made for children. As for cartoon characters you might know like Donald duck, Snow White (Snow White), Mickey Mouse (Mickey

Mouse) created by American artist Walt Disney.

Movie action : movie action is a type of movie where most of the whole characters are involved in a scene or scene that is in the form of physical contact in the form of fighting, chasing each other, explosions, shootouts, and so on.

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Genre Adventure (Adventure) Film adventure is a type of film where the main character focuses on the storyline in the form of adventures, challenges, and puzzles in every scene that exists.

Genre Animation (Animation) In general, animated films are exactly the same as other film genres, the difference is that animated films are not in the form of "real humans" but human characters and characters depicted in 2D and 3D cartoons, but are still dubbed by real human figures.

Genre Biography (Biography) Biography is a type of film that tells history, life, career, or anything that focuses on a certain character, race, group, culture. It can be ascertained that biography is a true story retold in a film.

Genre Comedy (Comedy) / Funny Films Film comedy is a type of film in which the plot & location of the story, scene, property, and characters who play emphasize and are humorous (funny), thus inviting expressions in the form of laughter.

Crime / Criminal Film Genres Criminal film is a type of film in which the storyline, problems, conflicts, and characters are part of an act that is against the law (crime), usually it is certain that the film is always side by side with the action genre.

Drama Genre Film drama is a type of film that contains a plot, characters, etc. who have certain themes in the form of romance, life, social, and so on even though war films.

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Family Genres / Family Films Family film is a type of film that focuses on life that happens in a family. The family film genre ensures that every "family member" can watch and enjoy films that are "unifying" within the family.

Fantasy Genre (Fantasy) Fantasy film is a type of film where each element in the film is a result of fantasy, the imagination of the creator who is entertaining.

Genre History : History film is a type of film that mostly tells the story of the past according to the events that have occurred and makes it a "history".

Genre Horror (Horror) Horror Movies Horror films are a type of film that focuses on the plot and scenes that are creepy, scary, and trigger the adrenaline of the audience.

Musical Genre movie musical is a type of movie that is ensured every major event, expression, or whatever is expressed through a music (singing) accompanied by a drama of a certain scene.

Mystery Genre (Mystery) Mystery movie is a type of movie that focuses on puzzle storylines to uncover certain problems.

Romance Genres (Romance) Romastin's movie is a type of movie that focuses on scenes and characters that are romantic (romance), usually ascertained always side by side with the drama genre.

Genre Sci-Fi (Science Fiction) / Science Fiction movie Sci-Fi movie is a type of fantasy imagination movie that is of a scientific nature that is developing and is

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usually still not proven (real). The main story is imaginative development of something that can happen in a real way from a particular knowledge technology.

Thriller genre Thriller is a type of movie that is filled with tense and thrilling action.

The main character races in an event against certain times and challenges.

Genre War (War) War movies are a type of movie where the storyline, background, scene, and character are involved in a particular war. Warfare can be between countries or even only missions against certain groups.

Western (Western) genre Western movies are a type of movie related to tribes and life in America in ancient times. Usually in the form of riding cowboys and sheriffs in a classic shooting action.

Sport Genre / Sports movie Sports movie is a type of movie where the storyline, scene, and character are always struggling with the life of a particular sport.

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2.2 Character

Character is an important element in literature. Various characters in the story are made by author's creativity. Author creates the characters according to their tastes: for example, the professions, status and attitudes Every character has a different part in the story.

Character is the part of intrinsic element in the novel that is firstly explored by the writer because it takes essential role to display any behavior of each character in the novel. Referring to their degree of playing role in the novel, they can be grouped into two parts such as main and peripheral character.

It is of course, not possible to have action without characters. Events are determinded by characters and characters defined by events. The presentation of character creates agreat effect on the significance of a work as the selection of the events and order of events. According to Klarrel (1988:17-18) Characters in a text can be rendered either as type or as individual.

Character is a value that portrays the charm of the place where problems and events lie so that the story awakens. These differences in roles are expected to be identified by the audience. If the identification process is successful, then the feeling of the audience will feel represented by the feeling of the role identified. Identifying one role means that we have adopted the thoughts and feelings of the role into our feelings and thoughts.

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Characters in a play play a very important role. Without characters there will be no stories, without characters there will be no plot. Whereas the inequality of character will give rise to shifts, collisions of interests, conflicts that eventually give birth to stories.

Relationship of character to script

Character is one of the most important elements in the text. but in the script the character must be more developed in more detail. breakdown of characters in the script usually includes the name of the role, gender, age, physical characteristics, character, education, habits, and relationships of other characters.

Character Elements Psychologically and sociologically humans have several elements related to the formation of characters. The element shows how someone's character

. These elements include:

Attitude : A person's attitude is part of character, even attitude is considered as a reflection of the person's character. A person's attitude towards something in front of him, usually shows how the character of the person. So, the better the attitude of a person it is said that the person has good character. Conversely, the less good a person is, the more said the person has bad character.

Emotion : Emotions are dynamic symptoms in situations that are felt by humans that are accompanied by effects on consciousness, behavior, and this is also a physiological process. This emotion is synonymous with strong feelings.

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Trust : Trust is a cognitive component of humans from socio-psychological factors. Belief about something is true or false on the basis of evidence, suggestion of authority, experience and intuition is very important in building the character and character of humans. So, trust strengthens the existence of self and relationships with others

Habits and Will Habits are aspects of sedentary human behavior, taking place automatically for a long time, not planned and repeated repeatedly. While the will is a condition that reflects a person's character because the will is closely related to actions that reflect the person's behavior. Self-Conception Self-concept is a process of totality, both conscious and unconscious about how one's character and self are formed. So, self-conception is how we must build ourselves, what we want and how we put ourselves in life.

Character Types Here are some examples of the kinds of characters someone who is often found around us: Grumpy Forgiving Lazy Haters Merciful Traitor Cheerful

Wise Honest Greedy Diligent Vengeful Quiet Coward And so forth. Character

Formation Process A person's character is basically formed through a fairly long learning process. Human characters are not born from birth, because characters are formed by environmental factors as well as people around the environment.

Characters are formed through various learning processes that are obtained from various places such as home, school and also the environment of residence. Parties who play a role in forming a person's character include family, teacher and friends.

Character is usually closely related to one's behavior. If someone has good

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behavior,then most likely the person has good character too. However, if someone has a bad behavior, it is likely that the person's character is also bad.

Character Types :

Flat / Static Character

Flat / static character or flat characters are character characters written by the playwright flat and usually black and white. This flat character is written without experiencing emotional development or degree of social status in a story. Flat characters usually exist in characters that are not too important or characters of supporting characters, but are needed in a story.

Round Character

Round character is a character in a play that experiences changes and developments in both personality and social status. Round character is formed with a perfect characterization process. This type of character is more like the real life.

Many aspects of his life are described and revealed throughout the novel. Even readers often get surprises because their nature can change.

Major character

More dominant / preferred characters (more often appearing in a show) Major character or also called main character is a character that has a dominant role and that most often appear in the story. According to Nurgiyantoro, major character is the mostpresented character in the story. He or she is the most telling character, either as subject or objects of the conflict. Even onparticular stories, major character is always

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present in everyscene and conflict (2002:176-177). The presence of major character is very dominant becausehe or she is the figure who is always present in the story andalso affects the development ofthe conflict and climax in thestory. Although the major character is not always present in every scene, any conflict will always be associated with him orher.

Minor character

Characters that are not preferred and usually only used to support the role of a major character.

Minor character or also called peripheral character is an extra character that just appear several times in the story.According to Nurgiyantoro, minor character is a character that appearsless often than major character (2002:177). Minor character is important character in the story after the main character. Without minor character, major character’s role willnot be perfect. Conflict can not be done only by the main character. It needs other charactersto make the conflict morevaried.

Antagonist

The antagonist is the role of the opponent, because he is often the enemy that causes the conflict to occur. The protagonist and antagonist must be able to make a fight, and the conflict must develop to a climax. The antagonist must have a strong and contradictory character towards the protagonist.

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Protagonist

The protagonist is the main role that is central or central to the story. The existence of a role is to overcome the problems that arise when achieving an ideal.

This problem can be from other figures, it can be from nature, it can also be due to lack of self. This role also determines the course of the story.

Typical and Neutral Character

Based on the reflecting story character toward human real life, story character can be distinguished into typical character and neutral character. Typical character is the character that shows less individuality and more jobs’ quality or something represented. Typical character is the description, reflecting or performance toward person or a group of tied people in a committee in real world. The description is indirectly and not whole and reader guess it based on knowledge, experience, and their opinion toward the character in real world and their understanding toward story character in fiction world. In another side, the neutral character is the story character that has existence for the story. He/she is the real imaginer character who lives in fiction world. He/she presents for the story even he/she the owner of the story, action of story. Their presence does not represent or show something out of themselves one who is fro m real world. At least, the reader gets difficulty to guess it as the represented because there is no evidence of reflecting from reality.

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The characterization of story character typically can be seen as reaction, opinion, accepting, guessing of composer toward human character in real world. The opinion may sound negatively as seen in teasing, critical, and even caricatured story.The typical characterization, which is not concerned with intentional and implicit meaning that told by the composer to the reader. The composer not only gives reaction or opinion through that typical character, but also shows their attitude toward character, character’s problem or its own action at once.Typical character in a novel maybe only one or some people, for example the main character or peripheral character. The typication of character does not need involve all their presence even it is impossible. There is only little aspect concerns with their self.

For example, their reaction and action about something. The problem or conflict their faces, the action and word, the particular actions, etc. The stylization in other side does not only show she/he has life attitude but there is character who has attitude, characteristic, action, problem, event, etc who told in a novel which has the similarity characteristics happen in real world. Thus, typical character has characteristic such as life, however life like character is not certain typical character.

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CHAPTER III

DESCRIPTION OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS

3.1 Phineas Taylor Barnum

Phineas Taylor Barnum is a poor tailor child who is often belittled by the rich in his town. But he fell in love with a girl from a wealthy family. he worked as an accountant in an expedition company and married Charity. Phineas Taylor Barnum is the father of her two beautiful daughters, Caroline and Helen. He love his child

Although life does not wallow in treasure, both of them always feel happiness.

One day, Barnum was fired from his company for having gone into bankruptcy because the company's shipping vessels were drowning in the storm.

Phineas Taylor Barnum started the business by opening a wax museum. After his candle museum business venture did not go well he made a circus or musical drama by gathering strange and unique people who have shortcomings and shunned by society. Barnum helps them to show the society that those who have deficiencies can become big stars.

Phineas Taylor Barnum is a good man. He gathers strange and unique people to make circuses or drama musical. And he wants to show the public that everyone who has a weakness has tremendous advantages. And Phineas Taylor Barnum loves his wife and children. He happiness is living together with his wife and children. He worked hard to make his family happy.

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Phineas Taylor Barnum worked as an accountant in an expedition company and

married Charity. Phineas Taylor Barnum is the father of her two beautiful daughters,

Caroline and Helen and he love his child

Phineas Taylor Barnum (talking to Caroline and

Helen): Helen, that's for you. And, Caroline,this is for

you. There is a ballet school.

After his workplace went bankrupt, he borrowed money from the bank by mortgaging the shipping data where he worked. he used data to borrow money from the bank to buy a building to open as a wax museum. After the museum's business business, the candle didn't work well, he made a circus or musical drama by making a announcement if he was looking for someone who was strange and also unique. after the announcement was read by people who had limitations he managed to gather strange and unique people like Brother and sister doing acrobatics in the air, tattooed man, dog boy, world ’he heaviest man, dwarf man, bearded woman, and irish giant.

Phineas Taylor Barnum (made an

announcement for everyone): Wanted: Unique

persons and strange. (Brother and sister doing

acrobatics in the air, tattooed man, dog boy,

world’s heaviest man, dwarf man, bearded

woman, and irish giant). (25:01)

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According Lettie Lutz Phineas Taylor Barnum is a good man. He gives a new life to people who had shortcomings and were humbled by society he gathered various strange and unique people like a beard woman, a boy with dog face, tattoed man, dwarf man, act to make a circus or musical drama to show the public that those who shortcomings have extraordinary advantages. For them Phineas Taylor Barnum is a hero who makes their lives meaningful.

Lettie Lutz (talking to Phineas Taylor Barnum): Our

mother is ashamed toward of us hide our whole life.

then you pull us out of the shadow and you give us a

real family in the circus. that's our house. (1:23:29).

Barnum also loved his wife and he works hard to make his family happy.

Phineas taylor barnum once promised to charity's father to make life charity happy.

Phineas Taylor Barnum (talking to Charity Father’s):

Sir, I know I'm not a rich person but I will take care of

your daughter and I will give this luxury life. (09:10)

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3.2 Charity Barnum

Charity Barnum is a child from a rich family. She is a skin white and blonde hair woman. She doesn't see people from wealth. She fell in love with a child from a poor tailor and they remain married and build a little family. Charity Barnum is a mother of two daughters, and she love her child. Charity Barnum is a patient woman. when her husband went bankrupt she gave support. And Charity Barnum always forgives her husband's mistakes. because Charity Barnum's happiness is living together with her husband and children.

Charity Barnum is a child from a rich family. She fell in love with a child from a poor tailor and they married and build a little family.

Charity Barnum (talking to Phineas Taylor Barnum):

However big, however small Let me be part of it all Share

your dreams with me you may be right, you may be wrong

but say that you 'll bring me along to the world you see.

(09:56)

She is a patient woman she always patiently faces all phineas taylor barnum behavior. Before becoming rich and known to everyone, Charity Barnum lived very simple. until finally her husband's obsession with being rich made her and her husband's relationship stay away.

Charity (talking to Phineas Taylor Barnum): First you buy

a house on the same road as my parents' house, then meet

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the queen, then take Jenny Lind, and my father on another

night, when will it be enough for you. (01:08:08)

Charity Barnum always forgives her husband's mistakes. She doesn't want anything but the person he loves, Phineas Taylor Barnum.

Charity (talking to Phineas Tyalor Barnum): I

never want anything except the man I love.

(01:29:48)

Charity Barnum's happiness is living together with her husband and children.

Charity Barnum has everything she wants. She does not need to live with abundant wealth. She wants happiness like this with her husband and children.

Charity (talking To her Husband and Children): I hope

for happiness like this forever for you and you and for

your father. (15:30)

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CHAPTER IV CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

4.1 Conclusion After analyzing the main characters of The Greatest Showman movie in this paper, character is one of important elements in movie. Characters are the persons of presented works of narrative who convey their personal qualities through dialogues and action by which the viewer understand their through, feelings, intentions, and motives. Characters can affect the reader and give positive or negative impacts. The characteristic of the main characteristic are various. If we talk about characteristic, it means we talk about quality of mind and habitual mode of behavior or personality. In The Greatest Showman movie, there are two main characters that support the story in movie. They are Phineas Taylor Barnum and Charity Barnum. 1) Phineas Taylor Barnum, he is a good man. He worked as an accountant in an expedition company and married Charity and has two daughters, Caroline and Helen. 2) Charity Barnum, she is a child from a rich family. She fell in love with a child from a poor tailor although Charity’s parents disagree with their relationship, they married and build a small family. Charity is a mother of two daughters, Caroline and Helen. The Greatest Showman movie is inspired by Phineas Taylor Barnum imagination. This movie is an original musical that tells the birth of the show business and tells the story of a visionary who rise from scratch to create a circus that became a sensation all around the world.

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4.2 Suggestion The writer hopes that this paper will make the viewers understand more about characters in The Greatest Showman movie and the viewers will be interested in watching this movie.

This paper also can be used as guidance to the other students in analyzing movie, especially the main characters. The writer hopes that the viewers or other students can watch the movie, understand the story then analyze other elements of literary work such as theme, plot, point of view, setting in The Greatest Showman movie. Under any circumstances, there will always be the love that managed to change everything for the better.

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APPENDICES BIOGRAPHY OF PHINEAS TAYLOR BARNUM

Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891) was an American showman, politician, and businessman remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the Barnum & Bailey Circus (1871–2017).[1] He was also an author, publisher, and philanthropist, though he said of himself: "I am a showman by profession… and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me".[2] According to his critics, his personal aim was "to put money in his own coffers."[2] He is widely credited with coining the adage "There's a sucker born every minute",[3] although no evidence can be found of him saying this. Barnum became a small-business owner in his early twenties and founded a weekly newspaper before moving to New York City in 1834. He embarked on an entertainment career, first with a variety troupe called "Barnum's Grand Scientific

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and Musical Theater", and soon after by purchasing Scudder's American Museum which he renamed after himself. He used the museum as a platform to promote hoaxes and human curiosities such as the Fiji mermaid and General Tom Thumb.[4] In 1850, he promoted the American tour of singer Jenny Lind, paying her an unprecedented $1,000 a night for 150 nights. He suffered economic reversals in the 1850s due to bad investments, as well as years of litigation and public humiliation, but he used a lecture tour as a temperance speaker to emerge from debt. His museum added America's first aquarium and expanded the wax-figure department. Barnum served two terms in the Connecticut legislature in 1865 as a Republican for Fairfield, Connecticut. He spoke before the legislature concerning the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution: "A human soul, 'that God has created and Christ died for,' is not to be trifled with. It may tenant the body of a Chinaman, a Turk, an Arab, or a Hottentot—it is still an immortal spirit".[5] He was elected in 1875 as Mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut, where he worked to improve the water supply, bring gas lighting to streets, and enforce liquor and prostitution laws. He was also instrumental in starting Bridgeport Hospital, founded in 1878, and was its first president.[6] Nevertheless, the circus business was the source of much of his enduring fame. He established "P. T. Barnum's Grand Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan & Hippodrome", a traveling circus, menagerie, and museum of "freaks" which adopted many names over the years. Barnum died of a stroke at his home residence in 1891 and was buried in Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, which he designed himself.[7]

Contents 1 Early life 2 The Greatest Showman 2.1 Fiji mermaid and Tom Thumb 2.2 Jenny Lind 2.3 Diversified leisure-time activities 3 Circus king

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4 Author and debunker 5 Role in politics and minstrel shows 6 Profitable philanthropy 7 Personal life and death 8 Legacy 8.1 "The Greatest Showman" 9 In popular culture 10 Publications 11 See also 12 References 13 Further reading 14 External links Early life Barnum was born in Bethel, Connecticut, the son of innkeeper, tailor, and store- keeper Philo Barnum (1778–1826) and his second wife Irene Taylor. His maternal grandfather Phineas Taylor was a Whig, legislator, landowner, justice of the peace, and lottery schemer who had a great influence on him. Barnum had several businesses over the years, including a general store, a book auctioning trade, real estate speculation, and a statewide lottery network. He started a weekly newspaper in 1829 called The Herald of Freedom in Danbury, Connecticut. His editorials against the elders of local churches led to libel suits and a prosecution which resulted in imprisonment for two months, but he became a champion of the liberal movement upon his release.[citation needed] He sold his store in 1834 and moved to New York City because lotteries were banned in Connecticut, cutting off his main income.[citation needed] He began his career as a showman in 1835 when he was 25 with the purchase and exhibition of a blind and almost completely paralyzed slave woman named Joice Heth, whom an acquaintance was trumpeting around Philadelphia as George Washington's former nurse and 161 years old. Slavery was already outlawed in New York, but he exploited a loophole which allowed him to lease her for a year for

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$1,000, borrowing $500 to complete the sale. Heth died in February 1836, at no more than 80 years old. Barnum had worked her for 10 to 12 hours a day, and he hosted a live autopsy of her body in a New York Saloon where spectators paid 50 cents to see the dead woman cut up, as he revealed that she was likely half her purported age.[8][9] The Greatest Showman Barnum had a year of mixed success with his first variety troupe called "Barnum's Grand Scientific and Musical Theater", followed by the Panic of 1837 and three years of difficult circumstances. He purchased Scudder's American Museum in 1841, located at Broadway and Ann Street, New York City. He improved the attraction, upgrading the building and adding exhibits, then renamed it "Barnum's American Museum"; it became a popular showplace. He added a lighthouse lamp which attracted attention up and down Broadway and flags along the roof's edge that attracted attention in daytime, while giant paintings of animals between the upper windows drew attention from pedestrians. The roof was transformed to a strolling garden with a view of the city, where he launched hot-air balloon rides daily. A changing series of live acts and curiosities were added to the exhibits of stuffed animals, including albinos, giants, little people, jugglers, magicians, exotic women, detailed models of cities and famous battles, and a menagerie of animals. Fiji mermaid and Tom Thumb 1866 newspaper advertisement for Barnum's American Museum located on Ann Street in Manhattan In 1842, Barnum introduced his first major hoax: a creature with the head of a monkey and the tail of a fish known as the "Feejee" mermaid. He leased the "mermaid" from fellow museum owner Moses Kimball of Boston, who became his friend, confidant, and collaborator.[10][11] Barnum described his hoaxes and justified perpetrating them by saying that they were advertisements to draw attention to the museum. "I don't believe in duping the public," he claimed, "but I believe in first attracting and then pleasing them."[12]

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He followed that with the exhibition of Charles Stratton, the dwarf called "General Tom Thumb" ("the Smallest Person that ever Walked Alone") who was then four years old but was stated to be 11. With heavy coaching and natural talent, the boy was taught to imitate people from Hercules to Napoleon. By five, he was drinking wine and by seven smoking cigars for the public's amusement. In 1843, Barnum hired traditional Native American dancer fu-Hum-Me, the first of many Native Americans whom he presented. During 1844–45, he toured with General Tom Thumb in Europe and met Queen Victoria, who was amused[13] but saddened by the little man, and the event was a publicity coup. It opened the door to visits from royalty throughout Europe, including the Tzar of Russia, and enabled Barnum to acquire dozens of new attractions, including automatons and other mechanical marvels; he was almost able to buy the birth home of William Shakespeare. During this time, he went on a spending spree and bought other museums, including the artist Rembrandt Peale's Peale's Museum in Philadelphia,[14] the nation's first major museum. By late 1846, Barnum's Museum was drawing 400,000 visitors a year.[4] Jenny Lind Main article: Jenny Lind tour of America, 1850–52

Castle Garden, New York, venue of Lind's first American concerts During his Tom Thumb tour of England, Barnum had become aware of the popularity of Jenny Lind, the "Swedish Nightingale". Her career was at its height in Europe; she was unpretentious, shy, and devout, and possessed a crystal-clear soprano voice projected with a wistful quality and earnestness that audiences found touching. Barnum had never heard her and conceded to being unmusical himself.[15] He approached her to sing in America at $1,000 a night for 150 nights, all expenses paid by him. He knew that his risk was great: "'The public' is a very strange animal, and although a good knowledge of human nature will generally lead a caterer of amusement to hit the people right, they are fickle and ofttimes perverse."[16] But he

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was confident that Lind's reputation for morality and philanthropy could be turned to good use in his publicity.[15] Lind demanded the fee in advance. Barnum agreed, and she accepted the offer, which would permit her to raise a huge fund for charities, principally endowing schools for poor children in Sweden.[17] Barnum borrowed heavily on his mansion and his museum to raise the money to pay Lind,[16] but he was still short of funds; so he persuaded a Philadelphia minister that Lind would be a good influence on American morals, and the minister lent him the final $5,000. The contract also gave Lind the option of withdrawing from the tour after 60 or 100 performances, paying Barnum $25,000 if she did so.[17] Lind and her small company sailed to America in September 1850, but she was a celebrity even before she arrived because of Barnum's months of preparations; close to 40,000 people greeted her at the docks and another 20,000 at her hotel. The press was also in attendance, and "Jenny Lind items" were available to buy.[18] When she realized how much money Barnum stood to make from the tour, Lind insisted on a new agreement which he signed on September 3, 1850. This gave her the original fee plus the remainder of each concert's profits after Barnum's $5,500 management fee was paid. She was determined to accumulate as much money as possible for her charities.[15] The tour began with a concert at Castle Garden on September 11, 1850, and it was a major success, recouping Barnum four times his investment. Washington Irving proclaimed, "She is enough to counterbalance, of herself, all the evil that the world is threatened with by the great convention of women. So God save Jenny Lind!"[18] Tickets for some of her concerts were in such demand that Barnum sold them by auction. The enthusiasm of the public was so strong that the American press coined the term "Lind mania".[19] The blatant commercialism of Barnum's ticket auctions distressed Lind,[19] and she persuaded him to make a substantial number of tickets available at reduced prices.[20] On the tour, Barnum's publicity always preceded Lind's arrival and whipped up enthusiasm; he had up to 26 journalists on his payroll.[21] After New York, the company toured the east coast with continued success, and later took in Cuba and the

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southern states of the U.S. By early 1851, Lind had become uncomfortable with Barnum's relentless marketing of the tour, and she invoked a contractual right to sever her ties with him. They parted amicably, and she continued the tour for nearly a year under her own management.[15] Lind gave 93 concerts in America for Barnum, earning her about $350,000, while Barnum netted at least $500,000 (equivalent to $14,708,000 in 2017).[22] Diversified leisure-time activities Using profits from the Lind tour, Barnum's next challenge was to change public attitudes about the theater. Widely seen as "dens of evil", Barnum wanted to position them as palaces of edification and delight, and as respectable middle-class entertainment. He built New York City's largest and most modern theater, naming it the "Moral Lecture Room." He hoped this would avoid seedy connotations and attract a family crowd and win the approval of the moral crusaders of New York City. He started the nation's first theatrical matinées, to encourage families and to lessen the fear of crime. He opened with The Drunkard, a thinly disguised temperance lecture (he had become a teetotaler after returning from Europe). He followed that with melodramas, farces, and historical plays, put on by highly regarded actors. He watered down Shakespearean plays and others such as Uncle Tom's Cabin to make them family entertainment.[citation needed] He organized flower shows, beauty contests, dog shows, poultry contests, but the most popular were baby contests (fattest baby, handsomest twins, etc.). In 1853, he started a pictorial weekly newspaper Illustrated News and a year later completed his autobiography, which through many revisions, sold more than one million copies. Mark Twain loved the book but the British Examiner thought it "trashy" and "offensive" and "inspired...nothing but sensations of disgust...and sincere pity for the wretched man who compiled it."[23] In the early 1850s, Barnum began investing to develop East Bridgeport, Connecticut. He made substantial loans to the Jerome Clock Company, to get it to move to his new industrial area. But by 1856, the company went bankrupt, taking Barnum's wealth with it. This started four years of litigation and public humiliation. Ralph Waldo

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Emerson proclaimed that Barnum's downfall showed "the gods visible again" and other critics celebrated Barnum's moral comeuppance. But his friends supported him, and Tom Thumb, now touring on his own, offered his services and they undertook another European tour. Barnum also started a lecture tour, mostly as a temperance speaker. By 1860, he emerged from debt and built a mansion "Lindencroft" (his palace "Iranistan" had burnt down in 1857) and he resumed ownership of his museum.

Barnum with Commodore Nutt, photograph by Charles DeForest Fredricks Despite critics who predicted he could not revive the magic, Barnum went on to greater success. He created America's first aquarium and expanded the wax figure department of the museum. His "Seven Grand Salons" demonstrated the Seven Wonders of the World. He created a rogues gallery. The collections expanded to four buildings and he published a "Guide Book to the Museum" which claimed 850,000 'curiosities.'[24] Late in 1860, the Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng, came out of retirement (they needed more money to send their numerous children to college). The Twins had had a touring career on their own and went to live on a North Carolina plantation with their families and slaves, under the name of "Bunker." They appeared at Barnum's Museum for six weeks. Also in 1860, Barnum introduced the "man-monkey" William Henry Johnson, a microcephalic black dwarf who spoke a mysterious language created by Barnum. In 1862, he discovered the giantess Anna Swan and Commodore Nutt, a new Tom Thumb, with whom Barnum visited President Abraham Lincoln at the White House. During the Civil War, Barnum's museum drew large audiences seeking diversion from the conflict. He added pro-Unionist exhibits, lectures, and dramas, and he demonstrated commitment to the cause. For example, in 1864 Barnum hired Pauline Cushman, an actress who had served as a spy for the Union, to lecture about her "thrilling adventures" behind Confederate lines. Barnum's Unionist sympathies incited a Confederate arsonist to start a fire in 1864. On July 13, 1865, Barnum's American Museum burned to the ground from a fire of unknown origin.

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Barnum re-established the Museum at another location in New York City, but this too was destroyed by fire in March 1868. This time the loss was too great, and Barnum retired from the museum business. Circus king Winter Quarters of the Great Barnum-London Show before 1886 Share of the Barnum and Bailey Ltd, issued 24. January 1902 Barnum did not enter the circus business until he was 60 years old. In Delavan, Wisconsin in 1870 with William Cameron Coup, he established "P. T. Barnum's Grand Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan & Hippodrome", a traveling circus, menagerie, and museum of "freaks". It went through various names: "P.T. Barnum's Travelling World's Fair, Great Roman Hippodrome and Greatest Show On Earth", and after an 1881 merger with James Bailey and James L. Hutchinson, "P.T. Barnum's Greatest Show On Earth, And The Great London Circus, Sanger's Royal British Menagerie and The Grand International Allied Shows United", soon shortened to "Barnum & Bailey's". This entertainment phenomenon was the first circus to display three rings,[25] which made it the largest circus the world had ever seen.[citation needed] The show's first primary attraction was Jumbo, an African elephant he purchased in 1882 from the London Zoo. The Barnum and Bailey Circus still contained acts similar to his Traveling Menagerie: acrobats, freak shows, and the world-famous General Tom Thumb. Despite more fires, train disasters, and other setbacks, Barnum plowed ahead, aided by circus professionals who ran the daily operations. He and Bailey split up again in 1885, but came back together in 1888 with the "Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show On Earth", later "Barnum & Bailey Circus", which toured the world. Barnum became known as the Shakespeare of Advertising[citation needed], due to his innovative and impressive ideas. He knew how to draw patrons in, by giving them a glimpse of something that had never been seen before. He was, at times, accused of being deceptive and promoting false advertising.[citation needed] Barnum was one of the very first circus owners to move his circus by train (and probably the very first to buy his own train). His friend, William C. Coup, helped him get railroad cars to make tour traveling easier. Given the lack of paved highways in

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America, this turned out to be a shrewd business move that vastly extended Barnum's geographical reach. In this new field, Barnum leaned more on the advice of Coup, Bailey, and other business partners, most of whom were young enough to be his sons. Author and debunker Parody of Jenny Lind's first American tour for P.T. Barnum, New York City, October 1850 Barnum wrote several books, including Life of P.T. Barnum (1854), The Humbugs of the World (1865), Struggles and Triumphs (1869), and The Art of Money-Getting (1880).[26] One of Barnum's more successful methods of self-promotion was mass publication of his autobiography. Barnum eventually gave up his copyright to allow other printers to sell inexpensive editions. At the end of the 19th century the number of copies printed was second only to the New Testament in North America.[citation needed] "Hum-Bug": a cartoon by H. L. Stephens (1851) Often referred to as the "Prince of Humbugs", Barnum saw nothing wrong in entertainers or vendors using hoaxes (or "humbug", as he termed it) in promotional material, as long as the public was getting value for money. However, he was contemptuous of those who made money through fraudulent deceptions, especially the spiritualist mediums popular in his day, testifying against noted spirit photographer William H. Mumler in his trial for fraud. Prefiguring illusionists like Harry Houdini, Barnum exposed "the tricks of the trade" used by mediums to cheat the bereaved. In The Humbugs of the World, he offered $500 to any medium who could prove power to communicate with the dead. Role in politics and minstrel shows Barnum was significantly involved in politics, focusing on race, slavery, and sectionalism in the period leading up to the American Civil War. He had some of his first success as an impresario through Joice Heth, a slave he hired. Around 1850, he was involved in a hoax about a weed that would turn black people white.[citation needed] Barnum was a producer and promoter of blackface minstrelsy. Barnum's minstrel shows often used double-edged humor. While replete with black stereotypes,

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Barnum's shows satirized as in a stump speech in which a black phrenologist (like all minstrel performers, a white man in blackface) made a dialect speech parodying lectures given at the time to "prove" the superiority of the white race: "You see den, dat clebber man and dam rascal means de same in Dutch, when dey boph white; but when one white and de udder's black, dat's a grey hoss ob anoder color."[27] Promotion of minstrel shows led to his sponsorship in 1853 of H.J. Conway's politically watered-down stage version of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin; the play, at Barnum's American Museum, gave the story a happy ending, with Tom and other slaves freed. The success led to a play based on Stowe's Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. His opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which supported slavery, led him to leave the Democratic Party to become a member of the new anti-slavery Republican Party. He had evolved from a man of common stereotypes of the 1840s to a leader for emancipation by the Civil War.[citation needed] While he claimed "politics were always distasteful to me", Barnum was elected to the Connecticut legislature in 1865 as Republican representative for Fairfield and served four terms.[5][28] In the debate over slavery and African- American suffrage with the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Barnum spoke before the legislature and said, "A human soul, 'that God has created and Christ died for,' is not to be trifled with. It may tenant the body of a Chinaman, a Turk, an Arab or a Hottentot – it is still an immortal spirit."[5] Barnum was notably, as a Connecticut state senator, the legislative sponsor of a law enacted by the Connecticut General Assembly in 1879 that prohibited the use of "any drug, medicinal article or instrument for the purpose of preventing conception", and also made it a crime to act as an "accessory" to the use of contraception, which remained in effect in Connecticut until being overturned in 1965 by the U.S. Supreme Court Griswold v. Connecticut decision.[29][30][31][32] Barnum ran for the United States Congress in 1867 and lost to his third cousin William Henry Barnum. In 1875, Barnum as mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut, worked to improve the water supply, bring gas lighting to streets, and enforce liquor and prostitution laws. Barnum was instrumental in starting Bridgeport Hospital, founded in 1878, and was its first

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president.[6] Profitable philanthropy Barnum enjoyed what he publicly dubbed "profitable philanthropy". In Barnum's own words: "I have no desire to be considered much of a philanthropist...if by improving and beautifying our city Bridgeport, Connecticut, and adding to the pleasure and prosperity of my neighbors, I can do so at a profit, the incentive to 'good works' will be twice as strong as if it were otherwise."[33] In line with this philosophy was Barnum's pursuit of major American museums and spectacles. Less known are Barnum's significant contributions to Tufts University. Barnum was appointed to the Board of Trustees prior to the University's founding and made several significant contributions to the fledgling institution. The most noteworthy example of this was his gift in 1883 of $50,000 (equivalent to $1,313,214 in 2017), to establish a museum and hall for the Department of Natural History, which later housed the department of biology.[34] Because of the relationship between Barnum and Tufts, Jumbo the elephant became the school's mascot, and Tufts students are known as "Jumbos".[35] Personal life and death On November 8, 1829, Barnum married Charity Hallett.[36] The couple had four children: Caroline Cornelia (1833–1911), Helen Maria (1840– 1920), Frances Irena (1842–1844), and Pauline Taylor (1846–1917).[37] Charity Hallett Barnum, his wife, died on November 19, 1873.[37] Barnum married Nancy Fish the following year, 1874.[38] Barnum died from a stroke at home in 1891.[28] He was buried in Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Connecticut, a cemetery he designed.[7] Legacy Obverse of the Bridgeport Half Dollar Barnum built four mansions in Bridgeport, Connecticut: Iranistan, Lindencroft, Waldemere, and Marina. Iranistan was the most notable: a fanciful and opulent Moorish Revival splendor designed by Leopold Eidlitz with domes, spires and lacy fretwork, inspired by the Royal Pavilion in Brighton, England. This mansion was built 1848 but burned down in 1857.[39] The Marina Mansion was demolished by the University of Bridgeport in 1964 in order to build their cafeteria.[40] At his death, most critics had forgiven Barnum and he was praised for good works, hailed as an icon of American spirit and ingenuity, and was perhaps the most famous

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American in the world. Just before his death, he gave permission to the Evening Sun to print his obituary, so that he might read it. On April 7, 1891, Barnum asked about the box office receipts for the day; a few hours later, he was dead.[28] P.T. Barnum, sculpted by Thomas Ball (1887), Seaside Park, Bridgeport, Connecticut In 1893, a statue in his honor was placed at Seaside Park, by the water in Bridgeport.[41] Barnum had donated the land for this park in 1865. His circus was sold to Ringling Brothers on July 8, 1907 for $400,000 (about $10.45 million in 2017 dollars).[6] The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circuses ran separately until they merged in 1919 forming the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The Tufts University Biology Building is named in honor of Barnum. Jumbo eventually became the mascot of Tufts University, in honor of Barnum's 1889 donation of the elephant's stuffed hide. In 1936, for the centennial of the city of Bridgeport, Connecticut, his portrait was used for the obverse of the commemorative Bridgeport Half Dollar.[42] Walt Kelly, who grew up in Bridgeport, named the Pogo character P.T. Bridgeport after Barnum, and endowed the circus operator bear with a Barnum-like outsized personality and word balloons with lettering that resembled 19th century circus posters giving graphic depiction of the sort of colorful language Barnum was prone to use. An annual six-week Barnum Festival was held for many years in Bridgeport, Connecticut, as a tribute to Barnum.[43] To honor the 200th anniversary of Barnum's birth, the Bethel Historical Society commissioned a life-size sculpture, created by local resident David Gesualdi, that stands outside the public library.[44] The statue was dedicated on September 26, 2010.[45] The Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Steamboat Company, which Barnum co-founded in 1883 with Charles E. Tooker, continues to operate across the Long Island Sound

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between Port Jefferson, New York, and Bridgeport, as of at least 2017. The company owns and operates three vessels, one of which is named the (M.V.) PT Barnum. The Barnum Museum, located in Bridgeport, Connecticut, is home to many of Barnum's various oddities and curiosities. "The Greatest Showman" In 2017, an American film titled, "The Greatest Showman" was released. This musical was based loosely on the life of Barnum (portrayed by Hugh Jackman). Directed by Michael Gracey, "The Greatest Showman" shows PT Barnum as a young boy with a flair for entertainment. The young Barnum then grows up, marries his childhood love (Charity Hallet),[46] starts the circus, and tours with Jenny Lind.[47]

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The Greatest Showman (2017) Movie Script

Phineas Taylor Barnum: Ladies and gents, this is the moment you've waited for. Been searching in the dark, your sweat soaking through the floor. And buried in your bones there's an ache that you can't ignore. Taking your breath, stealing your mind. And all that was real is left behind. Don't fight it, it's coming for you, running at ya. It's only this moment, don't care what comes after. Your fever dream, can't you see it getting closer. Just surrender 'cause you feel the feeling taking over. It's fire, it's freedom, it's flooding open. It's a preacher in the pulpit and you'll find devotion. There's something breaking at the brick of every wall it's holding all that you know, so tell me do you wanna go?

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Where it's covered in all the colored lights. Where the runaways are running the night. Impossible comes true, it's taking over you. Oh, this is the greatest show. We light it up, we won't come down. And the sun can't stop us now. Watching it come true, it's taking over you. Oh, this is the greatest show. It's everything you ever want. It's everything you ever need. And it's here right in front of you. This is where you wanna be. It's everything you ever want. It's everything you ever need. And it's here right in front of you. This is where you wanna be. It's everything you ever want It's everything you ever need. And it's here right in front of you. This is where you wanna be. It's everything you ever want. It's everything you ever need.

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And it's here right in front of you. Shopkeeper: I understand, yes. Thank you P.T Barnum Father’s :very much, Mr. Jeffrey. Thank you. You have the money by the end of the day. P.T Barnum Father’s : Let's go. Phineas, hurry up. We are gonna miss the train. Stand up straight. Wipe that muck off. Household assistant: Keep up. Arm extended, elbow out. Sip, and never slurp. Begin here, arm extended... elbow out. Keep your cup level. Low your cup. Shall we do it again? Arm extended, elbow out. Gracefully. Charity Father’s : Charity, come here. Your dress. Is this how we have taught you to behave? Phineas Taylor Barnum : It's my fault, sir. I made her laugh. Well, thank you

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for your honesty. Stay away from my daughter. Phineas Taylor Barnum: How did you get out? Charity : The window. Father is sending me to finishing school. I don't know what my future will be. Phineas Taylor Barnum : I do. I close my eyes and I can see. The world that's waiting up for me. That I call my own. Through the dark, through the door Through where no one's been before but it feels like home. They can say, they can say it all sounds crazy. They can say, they can say I've lost my mind. I don't care, I don't care, so call me crazy. We can live in a world that we design

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'Cause every night I lie in bed. The brightest colors fill my head. A million dreams are keeping me awake. I think of what the world could be. A vision of the one I see. A million dreams is all it's gonna take. A million dreams for the world we're gonna make. They can say, they can say it all sounds crazy. They can say, they can say we've lost our minds. Charity! I don't care, I don't care if they call us crazy. run away to a world that we designed. Cause every night I lie in bed. The brightest colors fill my head. A million dreams are keeping me awake. I think of what

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the world could be. A vision of the one I see. A million dreams is all it's gonna take. No. A million dreams for the world we're gonna make. Newspapers. Amazing stories from around the world. A million dreams are keeping me awake. I think of what the world could be. A vision of the one I see. A million dreams is all it's gonna take. A million dreams for the world we're gonna make. Come join the Great American Railroad. Three meals a day. A roof over your head. Fair and ample wages. Come, make your fortune. See the open plains of America.

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Opportunity awaits you sir, out on the rails. Phineas Taylor Barnum: Sir I, I know I don't come from much but I will take care of your daughter and I will give her a life as grand as this one. Charity: Goodbye, mother. Charity Father’s : She'll be back. Sooner or later she will get tired of your life of having nothing and she will keep running back home. Phineas Taylor Barnum : Every night I lie in bed. The brightest colors fill my head. A million dreams are keeping me awake. I think of what the world could be. A vision of the one I see. A million dreams is all it's gonna take. A million dreams for the world we're gonna make.

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Charity : However big, however small. Let me be part of it all. Share your dreams with me. You may be right, you may be wrong. But say that you'll bring me along. To the world you see. To the world I close my eyes to see. Barnum and Charity : I close my eyes to see P.T Barnum : Cause every night I lie in bed. The brightest colors fill my head. Charity : A million dreams are keeping me awake. Barnum and Charity : A million dreams, a million dreams. I think of what the world could be. A vision of what I see. A million dreams is all it's gonna take. A million dreams for the world we're gonna make. For the world we're gonna make.

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Employee: Mr. Smith? - Yeah. Have a look at this, here? Yes, yes, I see it. Thank you, Chalmers, that will do. Phineas Taylor Barnum : Sir. Phineas Taylor Barnum. If I may sir, I believe I have skills and ideas... that go well beyond counting numbers into an adding machine. I have read about this German fellow, Lilienthal... I believe he's developed a glider that could take a man in the air, sir. Isn't that amazing? I mean, if you were to apply that to this business, it would be revolutionary. Big Boss : Gentlemen. Can I have your attention? You are all dismissed. Phineas Taylor Barnum :Bankrupt? I thought the company had a dozen trading ships.

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Big Boss : Yes, at the bottom of the South China Seas. A typhoon sank them all. - Tinker it. - Oh, you're in for it. Phineas Taylor Barnum : Hey. Charity : Oh God. You are home early. Phineas Taylor Barnum : And until further notice. Charity : Oh I didn't think you were along for that job. Phineas Taylor Barnum : Or any job apparently. Charity : That's what makes our life together so exciting. Phineas Taylor Barnum : Charity. - This isn't the life I promised you. Charity : But I have everything I want. Phineas Taylor Barnum : What about the magic? Charity : What do you call those two girls? Hey, you partners, look who. Caroline and Helen : Daddy! Phineas Taylor Barnum: Come here. Caroline: Did you bring a present? P.T Barnum : Present, for what? Caroline : For my birthday. P.T Barnum : Your what? Caroline : My birthday.

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P.T Barnum : It's not your birthday. Okay, I do have a present. But not just any present. Oh no. The most amazing birthday present ever. This extraordinary machine was originally created by Leonardo Da Vinci 400 years ago. But the blueprints have been lost for centuries, until just last week, on a stormy night... when a sunken pirate ship washed up on the shores of Nantucket. They found skeletons and treasures... and the blueprints were recovered by none other than JW Mercantile. The blueprints crossed my desk very briefly... but I managed to commit them to memory... and if I had remembered correctly... Happy birthday, Caroline. This is a wishing machine. You tell it your wishes... and it keeps them safe

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until they come true. Even if you forget them, they are always there. Helen : Can I tell a wish? P.T Barnum: Step right up. Go ahead. Helen : I wish to marry Santa Clause. P.T Barnum : That is a good wish. Caroline : I wish for ballet slippers. Phineas Taylor Basrnum : Hey, that's a good wish too. Helen : What is your wish, Mommy? Charity : I wish... for happiness like this forever. For you and you... and for your father. Helen : Boring. Charity : Boring? Since when is happiness ever been boring? Caroline: Every night I lie in bed. The brightest colors fill my head. Helen: A million dreams are keeping me awake. I think of what the world could be. A vision of the one I see. A million dreams is all

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it's gonna take. A million dreams for the world we're gonna make. The goat prices go up, so the pork bellies go down. Charles Mom : Charles, we're leaving. Charles : Huh? Charles Mom : This bank only wants to lend money to people with money. Charles : What are you looking at Flop Doodle? Bank employees: Mr. Barnum. This venture you propose is risky and somewhat bizarre. It's a good bet, it's what it is. Phineas Taylor Barnum : Sir, people don't wanna admit it... but they are fascinated with the exotic and the... is why we stare at it. The bank is going to need substantial collateral. Of course. I would not suggest otherwise. The deed and title to my entire fleet of trading vessels. Charity : Why would a bank loan us 10,000 dollars?

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Because we put up collateral. Charity : We don't have any collateral. P.T Barnum: Sure we do. In the South China Seas. Charity : In the South China Seas? P.T Barnum : Deep in the South China Seas. And what did we Charity : buy with this loan? Barnum's American Museum of Curiosity. What kind of museum is it? A place to be transported. A place where people can see thing they've never seen before. - Wax figures? - Yeah. They are all the rage in Europe. Look. Marie Antoinette with the sore throat. Napoleon. Come here. You see? You have already met some of the most famous folks from the history. But they are not all wax. This is the Great O'Malley. Master of sleight of hand, the king of deception.

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- You don't look like a magician. - I am a thief. A very good thief. I caught him taking my watch. - You see? - An elephant. Not just any elephant. I'll get you something real nice to say the word. - Thank you. - Oh yeah. This is a ten ton bulls... straight from the plains of Africa. And, look at that. - The tallest giraffe in the world. - Can I climb up its leg? Absolutely no. OK. - Now, I know how it looks. - If you didn't, I would be worried. I mean it just needs a little work.. The loan has to be paid back every month. Oh yeah, we're gonna pay. We just need customers. - Hundreds of them. - We're gonna get them. Welcome to the Barnum Museum.

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It is one hour of your time, sir... but it will change your life. We have a shows on the hour, every hour. I love your dress. Surely not for the fainted heart. I can tell you that you'll love it. Half the price for anyone who is wearing a hat. Ho ho, That's you, sir. Welcome to the Barnum Museum. Garbage. Welcome to the Barnum Museum, where everyone... How many tickets? - Three. - Three? Daddy. Daddy? - You sell anymore tickets today? - A few. Yeah. Most of 'em was rushing home, it's Friday. We sold a few. I think you have too many dead things in your museum daddy.

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Do you? She is right. You need something alive. - Go to sleep, both of you. - Something sensational. - That is a big word. - That's your word. Something that isn't stuffed. - Like a mermaid. - Or a unicorn. - Unicorns aren't real. - Well, mermaids aren't real either. You must be Gertrude Stratton. I am looking for your son. I don't have a son. The hospital record says you do. Charles, right? Age 22? Charles. P. T Barnum. At your service. I'm putting together a show... and I need a star. You want people to laugh at me. Well, they are laughing anyway, kid. So, might as well get paid.

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I see a soldier. No, a general... riding across the stage with a sword and gun and... and the most beautiful uniform ever made. People will come from all over the world and when they see him they won't laugh. They will salute. Wanted! Unique persons, curiosities. Daring acts. Wonders of the world. How is it looking girls? Hey. You looking for freaks? I know where you can find one of them. Really? Come on, girls. - Hello. - Sir, you can't be here. I'm sorry. Who is doing that singing? It's you, isn't it? - Sir, I'll have to ask you to leave. - You are so talented, blessed...

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Extraordinary. Unique. I would even say 'beautiful'. Sir, please leave me alone. They don't understand it, but they will. OK. Anne and WD Wheeler. Brother and sister? - Yes sir. - Terrific. And what do you do? - Trapeze. - Trapeze. OK. You know, people aren't gonna like it if you put us on the stage. Oh, I am counting on it. - Is this so far your... - Entire body. Fantastic. I don't need to see it. Tattoo Man Barnum Museum. Dog boy. Can I just ask how heavy you are? Do you have a number for that? - I prefer not to say it, but...

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- Just between you and me. 500 pounds. - 750 pounds? Is what you said? - 750 pounds! World's heaviest man. - What's your name? - Vasily Palvos, sir. Yeah, we are going to change that name. I think you're Irish. Irish Giant. We have a show. That's good, but I need it five times bigger. And I want it everywhere. Carriages, sides of trains, trolleys, crates... milk bottles, everywhere they look. Barnum's American Museum. Nice to see you, sir. You stumble through your days. Got your head hung low. Your skies' a shade of Grey. Like a zombie in a maze. - Two, please.

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