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ABSTRACT

THE COMPARISON OF ANDREW M. NICCOL’ THE TRUMAN SHOW AND ZACH HELM’ STRANGER THAN FICTION ON THE MAIN CHARACTERS’ EXISTENCE

Literary works, as we all know is the artistic work of human experiences in textual form; we are familiar with poem, prose, song lyric, and form of other literary work. And those kinds of textual art are brought out onto the various forms of art development such as drama, song with rhyme and melody, pantomime, big screen and others. The formation of textual art into big screen, which are familiar to be called movie or film, is the most interesting literary form to converse. A movie, the common term of dramatic composition has several conventional elements that distinguish it from prose or novel, those elements are: division into acts and scenes, cameras, characterizations, setting, theme, and plot.
This thesis discusses the comparison of the main character’ existence in two movies entitled The Truman Show and Stranger than Fiction.
The first movie entitled The Truman Show written by Andrew M. Niccol in 1998 tells about man named Truman Burbank who lives in big artificial studio called Seahaven and made by Cristof, the producer. The movie is framed around the television show entitled "The Truman Show." Its main character, Truman Burbank, has lived his entire life since his birth in front of cameras for the show, though he himself is unaware of this fact. Truman's life is filmed through thousands of hidden cameras, 24 hours a day and broadcast live around the world. To prevent Truman from discovering his false reality, Christof controls every aspect of Truman's life, even the weather. Truman seeks to get away from Seahaven, Truman then discovers the way out from seahaven leading him to a door marked "exit".
And the second movie entitled Stranger than Fiction made in 2006 by Zach Helm tells about Harold Crick, an auditor for the Internal Revenue Service. One day, he begins hearing the voice of a woman that is omnisciently narrating the events in his life, and says; "little did he know that this small, seemingly innocuous act would result in his imminent death". Worried over this prediction, Harold turns to a psychiatrist who attributes the voice to schizophrenia. When he asks what she would advise if it were not schizophrenia, the psychiatrist suggests Harold turn to a literary expert. Jules Hilbert, a university professor. Jules says that maybe Harold is the main character of a story, and then he suggests Harold to find the writer and ask her to prevent his death. And the story goes to the journey of Harold to find his life’ writer and to avoid his death.
The problem to discuss in this thesis is the comparison of the main character’ existence in their life which have been controlled by the story makers, in those cases the story makers are the producer and the writer. And the problem solving of the main characters to face their life and to realize that their life is controlled by the story makers. This thesis uses inductive method. It begins from the specific discussion to the general conclusion. The analysis is begun by collecting the data from the movie script. Then find the characterization of each main character of each movie and the next step is relating the both of the main character’ existence and comparing both of it. The latter one is finding the general conclusion of the discussion.
The approaches used are Psychological approach, Maslow theory about Hierarchy of needs, and Marxism theory. Connecting with Psychological approach is used to explain the fictitious character in literary work. Maslow theory: Hierarchy of needs is the theory of human existence divided into five levels that fulfill the human needs as a proof of their existence. The latter one is Marxism theory which frames the discussion in material base as the motive of ideological base.
In the end of this comparative study of two main characters’ existence in The Truman Show and Stranger than Fiction, we can see the effort of Truman Burbank and Harold Crick to breakthrough the controlling of human who playing GOD to their life and finally find their truly existence as human being.

English Department, Faculty of Letters, Jember University
Key Words: Comparison, Main Character, Existence.








TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER I : Introduction
1.The Rationale
2.The Problem to Discuss
3.The Scope of Study
4.The Method to use
5.The Approaches to Use
6.The Goal of The Study
7.The Organization of The Thesis
CHAPTER II : The Biography of the Screenwriters and The Movies
2.1.The Biography of Andrew M. Niccol
2.2.The Biography of Zach Helm
2.3.The Synopsis of The Truman Show
2.4.The Synopsis of Stranger Than Fiction
CHAPTER III : Theoretical Review
3.1.The Formalistic Study
3.2.The Psychological Study
3.3.The Maslow Theory : Hierarchy of needs
3.1.Psychological need
3.2.Safety need
3.3.Belongings and Love need
3.4.Esteem need
3.5.Self Actualization
CHAPTER IV : The comparison of Truman Burbank’ existence in Andrew M. Niccol The Truman Show and Harold Crick’ existence in Zach Helm’ Stranger than Fiction
4.1.The Existence of Truman Burbank in The Truman Show
4.1.1 His existence as the main character in the movie
4.1.2 His existence as the object of the producer and the viewers of The Truman Show
4.1.3 His response to face the reality of his life as the object of producer
4.2.The Role of Cristof as Producer to the Truman Burbank’ Life
4.2.1 Cristof’ point of view in controlling Truman Burbank’ Life
4.2.1 Cristof’ response to Truman Burbank’ awareness to his truly existence
4.3.The Existence of Harold Crick in Stranger than Fiction
4.3.1 His existence as the main character in the novel
4.3.2 His existence as the object of the writer and the reader of The Novel
4.3.2 His response to face the reality of his life as the object of the writer
4.4.The Role of Kay as Writer to the Harold Crick’ Life
4.2.1 Kay’ point of view in controlling Harold Crick’ Life
4.2.2 Kay’ response to the awareness of Harold Crick to his truly existence
4.5.The Existence of Truman Burbank’ Character in Andrew M. Niccol’ The Truman Show compared with Harold Crick’ Character in Zach Helm’ Stranger than Fiction
4.5.1 The comparison of Truman Burbank’ existence and Harold Crick’ existence
4.5.2 The comparison of the story makers’ role to those main characters’ life
4.5.3 The comparison of the main characters’ response to face the reality of their life
CHAPTER V : CONCLUSION
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