A STUDY ON CHARACTERIZATION OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN THE SHERLOCK HOLMES MOVIE

Wardiana. Registered number student, 3213113160, 2015. A study on characterization of the main characters in the ‘Sherlock Holmes’ movie. Thesis English education program Institute Islamic college (IAIN) of Tulungagung. Advisor Dr. Susanto, S,S M.Pd. Keywords: characterization, main characters, movie. As art creation, drama, novel, poetry, and movie are kinds of literature forms. It is an element that has a high artwork and imaginative. Some expert have different opinions about literature, it depends on the time, situation and social condition, so many differences of definition of literature do not changed the meaning of literature itself. Literature is said as medium of expressing ideas. The formulation of the research problems are: 1). How the main characters’ physical appearance are in the ‘’Sherlock Holmes’’ movie? 2). How the main characters’ personality are in the ‘’Sherlock Holmes’’ movie? 3). How the main characters’ social status are in the ‘’Sherlock Holmes’’ movie? 4). How the main characters’ social relationship are in the ‘’Sherlock Holmes’’ movie. The purpose of this study is to grasp the content of the movie, specifically it is to description and know: 1). The main characters’ physical appearance in the ‘’Sherlock Holmes’’ movie are. 2). The main characters’ personality in the ‘’Sherlock Holmes’’ movie are. 3). The main characters’ social status in the ‘’Sherlock Holmes’’ movie are. 4). The main characters’ social relationship in the ‘’Sherlock Holmes’’ movie Research method: 1) The design used in this method is library research by using structural analytical approach. 2) The data for the research compris all sentences and dialogues among the character in the movie which are related to the characters’ characterization. 3) The steps to collect the data are: a) watching the movie. b) Reading script and understanding the ‘’ Sherlock Holmes’’ movie. c) Conducting identification towards all sentences and dialogues in the movie. d). Choosing the data dealing with the research problems to get the trustworthiness of data analysis uses extension observation. 5) The data analysis and interpretation uses structural analytical approach. The result is that Sherlock Holmes and John Watson are the main character in the story, because they are given much contribution of the story. The characterization is about the main characters’ physical appearance, personality, social status, and social relationship. 1) the main characters’ physical appearance The first is Sherlock Holmes, he is a man whose a body is a tall, thin man appearing no more than in his late thirties, with pale skin and dark, curly hair. His look is designed to stand out in contrast to John, who is shorter, with straight blonde hair. Sherlock's outfit consists of a long trench coat, the collar spiked up and a dark blue scarf. When in casual wear, he looked to prefer dark colored dress shirts and pants. 2) The main characters’ personality, Finding in the Sherlock is someone who does not have a personality as being a romantic, then behaved to his brother, like to respect a brother, a brother to obey the command, etc. he was not at all interested in women, and do not know why, maybe because life is too busy with various jobs. He was too busy with his work, almost every time he used only to work alone. Behind the figure of Sherlock that looks hard, But besides that Sherlock has a soft heart and also lover, especially his friend, John. The second main character is Dr. John Watson. Watson figure depicted as a doctor who had worked in the British armed forces. Watson has a little character in contrast to Holmes.3) The main characters’ social status, Sherlock Holmes have highly educated. He is a consulting detective. And John Watson is a medical doctor, formerly in the British Army. And John is a Doctor who is a genius, and related to education Sherlock can no doubt. 4) The last is about social relationship, they have a closed relationship, it is because they are a hard worker so that the time spent by job only. Even though to his family they never or sometimes to meet them