| dc.description.abstract | This thesis is conducted to reveal individualism through the clauses of the
selected characters in The Adjustment Bureau movie. To do the analysis, it applies
critical discourse analysis proposed by Fairclough (1995). There are three stages in
analyzing the data; describing the text analysis by using systemic functional
linguistics focused on transitivity and interpersonal function proposed by Halliday
(2004); interpreting the relation between the text analysis and the discourse practice
based on theory of power and ideology by Fairclough (1989); and explaining the
socio cultural context of the movie.
Further, this thesis employs qualitative study since the data of this study are
in the form of clauses. The data are taken from the subtitle of the movie. Then,
purposive sampling is applied to gather the clauses from the selected characters in
the movie which contain individualism and contrasting to individualism.
The result of the study shows that the main character which brings
individualism in the movie is portrayed as the powerful participant which opposes
to the absolutism. In early modern Europe, individualism emerges to oppose the
absolutism and it exists until now. The director of the movie puts the character of
David Norris as the character who delivers individualism to state that the individual
needs a freedom to live the life without the interference from the authority. As the
powerful participant, David Norris can defend and share his ideology of
individualism to influence the other characters. It can be concluded that
individualism is conveyed through the employment of the cognitive process in the
main character’s mental clause. | en_US |
