Research Article
Image of Woman in John La Tier’s Film The Tell Tale Heart (2016): An Ecranisation Analysis
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.20-9-2019.2296706, author={Weni Mayendri and Maria Josephine Mantik}, title={Image of Woman in John La Tier’s Film The Tell Tale Heart (2016): An Ecranisation Analysis }, proceedings={Proceedings of the Third International Seminar on Recent Language, Literature, and Local Culture Studies, BASA, 20-21 September 2019, Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={BASA}, year={2020}, month={6}, keywords={ecranisation object seductress goddes women the tell tale heart}, doi={10.4108/eai.20-9-2019.2296706} }- Weni Mayendri
Maria Josephine Mantik
Year: 2020
Image of Woman in John La Tier’s Film The Tell Tale Heart (2016): An Ecranisation Analysis
BASA
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.20-9-2019.2296706
Abstract
The Tell Tale Heart (1843) is one of the famous short story written by Edgar Allan Poe's (1809—1849). This short story was adapted into a film in 2016 with the same title. However, the film add a female figure that change the meaning of that work. The female character, known as Ariel, drive the main character into a psychopathic behavior, including fear, anger, and desire to kill the Old Man. This study is a decriptive qualitatif reseach that conducted by analyzing the female character of the film. The analysis in this research is done based on the image of woman in literature by Mary Anne Ferguson (1977). This reseach found that woman, in this film, is portrayed as the seductress goddes, the sex object, and weak woman.
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