PENGGAMBARAN TRAGEDI PAHLAWAN DALAM FILM GLADIATOR OLEH RIDLEY SCOTT

Abstract

                                                    ABSTRACT

     This research entitled “Penggambaran Tragedi Pahlawan dalam Film Gladiator oleh Ridley Scott†is intended as a requirement to accomplish the â€Sarjana†degree at Faculty of Humanities Sam Ratulangi University Manado. The objectives of this research are to identify and analyze tragic hero characteristics on film Gladiator by Ridley Scott. The writer uses qualitative research method with film and narrative elements approach in order to identify and classify how it is support the representation of tragic hero on theme, characterizations, conflict, and settings through the Gladiator film. The writer uses the theory of tragic hero by Aristotle as the main theory to analyze the tragic hero in Gladiator film. The result of this research shows that the element of narrative on theme, characterizations, conflict and settings being depicted through the film in order to build the environment of tragedy. This environment helps showing the tragedy process of the main character in the film while picturing the idea of tragic hero based on Aristotle theory. Maximus as the main character in Gladiator film endures the tragic hero completely based on Aristotle theory. As the film Gladiator runs to the end of the film, Maximus endures the elements of tragedy in several specific scenes to picture hamartia, hubris, peripertia, anagronisis, nemesis, and carthasis.

Keyword: Tragic Hero, Gladiator, Film, Aristotelian, Ridley Scott.