The Miracle Worker is a film by William Gibson that tells the story of a girl
with sensory limitations such as deaf, dumb, and blind, which causes the girl to
have complex emotions. This study aim to describe the classification of emotion
seen from the main character in the film The Miracle Worker. The theory used in
this study is David Krech's classification of emotions.
A qualitative descriptive methodology was used in this study. It utilized two
different types of data: primary data and secondary data. The primary data used for
this research were taken from the film script The Miracle Worker which includes
dialog, prologue, and monologue. Then, the secondary data for this study were from
relevant articles, books, journals, and previous research projects. Data were
collected using various techniques, such as watching the film, reading the film
scripts, identifying data, classifying data, and reducing data.
The results of the study found four classifications of emotions in the main
character in the film The Miracle Worker, namely, (1) the classification of basic
emotions (happy, angry, afraid and sad), (2) classification of emotions related to
sensory stimulus (pain), (3) classification of emotions related to other people
(success), and (4) emotions related to other people (love and hate).
Keyword: basic emotion, emotions linked to sensory stimulation, emotions
associated with self assessment, and emotions related to other people.