AN ANALYSIS OF MORAL MESSAGES IN TODD PHILLIPS’ JOKER (2019) AND CARL SANDBURG’S GOVERNMENT

Abstract

This study aims to show that there is a relation in literary works between film and poem, namely the moral message. The works have similar messages in referring to government. The government has its own actions to show the roles, but it is opposite in action like giving injustice roles to the society. Both of works, the society feels pressure with the government’s act. The protest actually did to get the justice. The efforts of society to get the freedom become tragedy when the government is protected by police with striking the society. It is also related to humanity, struggling human rights. It includes to the human right when the people in lower class want to get the justice. It has the similarity with the poem when the people in upper class can do everything to the government with paying judge to dismiss the problem. It is injustice for the society. The writers use the theory of Nurgiyantoro (2007) about moral message in literary works that he said moral message related to humanity, struggling human rights. With this description, the writers use the method of comparative literature by Bassnett (1999) and descriptive qualitative by Creswell (2009) to compare the works and to describe them through narration and visual. Many pictures show to give description about the events happened in the story.