Abstract:
The purpose of this study is to explain the anxiety factors and how the main
characters perform a self-defense mechanism in the movie script The Last House
on the Left written by Mark Haslett.
The method used in this research is qualitative descriptive method, with a
psychological approach. The writer obtained the data by reading the script
repeatedly, taking notes, and then qualifying the data related to this research. In
analyzing the data, the writer used a psychological theory proposed by Sigmund
Freud.
The results of this study show that the main characters Mari and Justin have
3 factors of anxiety, namely neurotic anxiety such as anxiously, traumatized,
terrified, escape, realistic anxiety such as police fugitive, trouble brewing, bullet,
gun and fires, and moral anxiety such as disappointed, fear, broken. There were also
some defense mechanism that the main characters used to overcome their anxiety
was repression, compensation, sublimation, reaction formasi, rationalization,
displacement, altruism, and undoing.
