In literary works, genre is an important element that is difficult to separate. Of the many genres that exist, the Bildungsroman genre is one of them. This genre contains the life journey of a character from childhood to adulthood and focuses on the moral and psychological development of the character.
This study aims at analyzing Bildungsroman Characteristics and the personal development of Caesar as a character in Rise of the Planet of the Apes movie using Bildungsroman theory. This study used a descriptive qualitative method. The data were taken from the movie in the form of dialogue, narrative, monologue, and picture. There were steps used to collect the data such as watching the movie, identifying the data, classifying the data, and reducing the data.
This study find the Bildungsroman’s personal development of Caesar as character. Caesar has all the Bildungsroman characteristics such as: the background of the place, self-education, the conflicts, entering bigger society, seeking social relationship, looking for role and purpose, ordeal by society, trial by love, moment of spiritual suffering and pain in life, and also experiencing epiphanies. There are three personality development stages that Caesar passes, the first one is childhood stage, youth stage, and (early) maturity stage.
Keywords: Bildungsroman, Personal Development, Personality Development Formation, Rise of the Planet of the Apes.