Proceedings of the Third International Seminar on Recent Language, Literature, and Local Culture Studies, BASA, 20-21 September 2019, Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia

Research Article

Image of Woman in John La Tier’s Film The Tell Tale Heart (2016): An Ecranisation Analysis

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  • @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
Weni Mayendri1,*, Maria Josephine Mantik1
  • 1: Magister Ilmu Susastra, Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Indonesia
*Contact email: weni.mayendri@ui.ac.id

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.