MOOD ANALYSIS OF LITTLE WOMEN MOVIE SCRIPT IN CONTRIBUTION FOR TEACH ELT CLASSROOM

Abstract

This study explores the various moods depicted in the film Little Women with the goal of identifying the moods according to M.A.K. Halliday, Gerot, and Wignell theory and outlining the main ones. The descriptive qualitative method was used to interpret the data. The sources of data is video of Little Women that has 2 hour 15 minutes taken from Netflix. Therefore, the data are also taken from https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/little-women-by-greta-gerwig.pdf to get the script of Little Women movie. The technique of collecting data of this study using documentary technique. There were three types of data in data analysis: video, script, and classification. The goal of the researcher was to use the ELT technique to aid students in understanding the linguistics from the movie. The researcher also examined the mood, which included a study of the mood system, speech function, and modality. The research found there were 102 clauses in Little Women movie. The findings indicated that there were 3 types of mood, 4 type speech function, and 3 values of modality in Little Women movie. They were 74 declarative mood with percentage 73%, 17 interrogative mood with percentage 17% and 11 imperative mood with percentage 11%. Then, 78 clauses of statement with percentage 76%, 13 clauses of questions with percentage 13%, 7 clauses of command with percentage 7%, and 4 clauses of offer with percentage 4%. And then the dominant than the other types in modality is “will” the kind of modality is obligation. Declarative as the most dominant types of mood is used in Little Women it is mean give or state information and speech deals with giving information to the audience.