Abstract :
This term paper is about The Issue of Morality in Arthur Character From
Todd Philips? Movie Joker using theory of discourse from John Searle, Freidrich
Nietzsche. To be more specific, this paper will analyze the issue of morality in
fiction movie Joker that has correlation with psychological aspect and philosophical
aspect of the movie. There are several theories that I will use in this term paper.
First Speech Acts theory from John Searle that will analyze Arthur?s dialogues
throughout the movie. Second, Freidrich Nietzsche theory of moral genealogy that
will deal with the morality that Arthur reflects in the movie. In Speech Acts, there
are five types of illocutionary acts in Searle?s theory, that are: Assertive,
Commissive, Directive, Expressive, and Declarative will be used in this paper.
Furthermore, this study has qualitative range of research, that is interdisciplinary
research of linguistic, history, and philosophy that will analyze the data which
gathered from Joker movie as the primary source.