Moral Values of the Main Character in the Script of Jennifer Lee’s Movie “Wish”

Abstract

The title of this research is Moral Values of the Main Character in the Script of Jennifer Lee's Movie “Wish”. In this research, I focus my research on the kinds, components, and social effects of the moral values of the main character in the script Wish movie written by Jennifer Lee. The main theory used was taken from Linda and Richards Eyree entitled “Teaching Your Children Value” (1993), and the supporting theory was taken from Carol K. Sigelman & Shaffer, D. R.'s book entitled “Life Span Human Development” (1995). In conducting research, I apply source theories, namely data sources, data collection, and data analysis. A qualitative descriptive method was used in this study. This research utilised the script movie entitled Wish as the data source. Collection of data was carried out by reading the script repeatedly and then using note-taking techniques to find the main character's dialogue that shows speech containing moral values. Based on the analysis carried out, it can be concluded that the kinds of moral values that can be found in this movie are 12 types of moral values based on Linda and Eyre’s theory, which divides into two groups consisting of value of being and value of giving. Value of being consists of honesty, courage, peaceability, self-reliance and potential, self-discipline and moderation, and fidelity and chasity. Meanwhile, the value of giving consists of loyalty and dependability, respect, love, unselfishness and sensitivity, kindness and friendliness, and justice and mercy.