Please take a moment to complete this survey below
Library's collection Library's IT development CancelManipulation do happens in our everyday life. Therefore, it is important to
know the characteristic of manipulative behaviors to avoid someone from being
manipulated by others. In doing so, the writer takes the data from Smallville
because she finds many manipulation acts that are done by the characters,
especially by Lex, Lucas, and Lionel Luthor. In the story, Lex wants to use his
half brother, Lucas, to play against their father, Lionel. However, Lucas realizes it
and he has his own plan. On the other side, Lionel also tries to control his sons by
manipulating them. In order to know about the process of manipulation, the writer
uses Speech Acts Theory of Austin to know what tactics that are used by the
Luthors and for what motives they conduct the act of manipulation. It means that
the scope of the study is Discourse Analysis and it focusses on locutionary,
illocutionary and perlocutionary acts. After analysing each of the utterance, the
writer figures that in Smallville, the Luthors use more than one tactic in order to
make them succeed in achieving their goals, which are to control other people?s
thoughts, behaviors, feelings, and to make decision for others. In other words,
Lex, Lucas, and Lionel Luthor are capable of doing anything to get what they
want, even though their actions might hurt others.