MAINTAINING A GOOD CHRISTIAN IMAGE WHILE SUPPRESSING SELF-INDULGENT GRATIFICATION

Farah Salma Azizah

Abstract


Dark comedy in animation series has been frequently utilised to explain or make a statement about serious subjects so that most adults could relate to them more quickly than children because adults are the target audience for this type of genre in the animation production world.  Many times, the genre of dark comedy in one series covers serious subjects, such as death, famine, and even religious dogmatism in society. In Moral Orel (2005-2008), a satire on a religious issue is built upon how a character demonstrates a contradicting deviant behavior as a Christian man who struggles to maintain Christian altruistic values while at the same time represses his self-indulgent gratification. Applying textual analysis and Freud’s psychoanalytical approach, this paper concludes that the character Clay Puppington in Moral Orel (2005-2008) is used to show in a satirical way how one struggles to maintain Christian altruistic values while repressing self-indulgence gratification.


Keywords


Self-indulgence, psychoanalytical approach, Christian values, character analysis

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51817/susastra.v12i2.142

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