Abstract:
This research deals with felicity condition in The Hunger Games movie.
The objectives of the study are to find out kinds of felicity condition contained in
The Hunger Games movie and to describe the application of felicity condition in
teaching speaking at the twelfth grade of senior high school.
This research is a qualitative research. The data source of this research is
the manuscript and the scene from The Hunger Games movie. The researcher
conducted library approach to get information about felicity condition. In
collecting the data, the researcher found the movie and the manuscript first. Then
watched the movie and read the manuscript while list some dialogue which
contain some clues of felicity condition into its type. And then the researcher
analyzes them and gives the reason why the dialogues are categorized as fulfilling
felicity condition.
The result of the study shows that there are 49 felicity conditions occured
in The Hunger Games movie. 8 (16.33%) data belongs to general condition, 9
(18.37%) data belongs tocontent condition, 6 (12.24%) data belongs to
preparatory condition, 14 (28.57%) data belongs to sincerity condition, and 12
(24.49%) data belongs to essential condition of felicity.
The application of felicity condition in teaching speaking can be applied in
XII grade of senior high school semester 1. The material which is closely related
with felicity condition is expressions. The teacher can use utterances in the movie
to teach expressions such as admitting, promising, blaming, and wondering.
