Anxiety is part of the defense mechanism. Defense mechanisms are psychological strategies unconsciously used to defend a person from anxiety arising from unacceptable thoughts or feelings. This study concerned on finding out the types of Moses’ anxiety and to investigate the defense mechanism that Moses employs in reducing his anxiety by employing Freud’s concept as the main theory. The design of this research employed qualitative research with content analysis as its approach. As the data, this study employed words including narrations and dialogues that were taken from Exodus: Gods and Kings movie script.
This study showed Moses character experienced three types of anxieties covering neurotic anxiety, moral anxiety, realistic anxiety. Furthermore, Moses also employed five features of the defense mechanism covering repression, formation, isolation, denial, and aggression. As follows, the conclusion of this research considered Moses character experienced neurotic anxiety when he identifies a boy that represented as the authority figure who was punishing him. The moral anxiety experienced in four times, overall happened when he feels guilty about the situation and realistic anxiety experienced three times by Moses’ character because he managed some threats from the outer world. Moreover, all these features of the defense mechanism used to cope Moses’s anxious feeling. The implication of this research provided another view in seeing Exodus: Gods and Kings movie as the portrayal of the way how people can suffer anxiety easily, because anxious feeling happens from many factors and also how people tried to use the defense mechanism to reduce anxiety.

Keywords: Anxiety, Defense Mechanism, Psychoanalysis.