The Elle Woods’s Character In Legally Blonde Film Viewed From Personality

This research is a study that analyzes the personality traits of Elle Woods in
Legally Blonde film. This study aims to determine the character and
characterization of the main character in the film Legally Blonde. This research is
included in the literature study. The researcher focuses on dialogue and action in
the film, and after that analyzes the characters and characterizations based on the
theory of Paul Costa and Robert McCrae. There are five personality traits, namely
extraversion, neuroticism, conscientiousness, openness to experience, and
agreeableness. In this study, researchers found the five of the Big Five Personality
traits on the character Elle Woods, namely, Neuroticism (29.4%), Introversion /
Extraversion (26.4%), Agreeableness (20.5%), Conscientiousness (14.7%), and
Openness to Experience (9%). This study used a qualitative description method.
The writer employs herself to collect the data by reading the script, watching the
film and marking them. From the analysis of the personality of the character Elle
Woods in the film Legally Blonde, it can be concluded that the five personality
traits from The Big Five personalities are used in the film. From the theory used,
the researcher found that the characteristics of Elle Woods' Neuroticism are
complaining person, anger, irritability, jealously, and blaming person.
Extraversion of Elle Woods is optimistic, talk active, keep in spirit, friendly,
passionate, and sociable.