CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study Literature is usually regarded as a written
form. Literature is the class of writings
which are distinguished for its beauty of style or expression, such as poetry, essays, or history. In distinction
from scientific treatises and works containing
positive knowledge www. answers. com/ topic/ def:literature). The writer concern with literature, especially
novel, as an art of work because reading novel is very interesting and beneficial to
gone some valuable messages that are given
by the based on the author. Novel is an extended prose fiction narrative that relates the actions of its character and the
eventsin their experience. By reading novel
everybody can enjoy their spare time and alsofulfil their emotional needs.
Literature and the world we live influence
each other (Wellek, 1988:94;Teeuw,
1988:22). It can be understood, thenthat it responds to condition marriage in Bittersweetnovel as related to
woman position in neighbor.
The awakening of women position actually had
begunseveral centuries ago. Throughout
history women are struggled for their position in marriage. In England, Mary Wollstonecraft declared her
Vindication of the Rights of Womanin 1792.
the struggle for woman position in Indonesia was pioneered by Kartini with her Habis Gelap Terbitlah Terang. In china,
Madame Ching Kai-shek was well known for
her struggle in 1940. Even in 1995, therewas a world Conference on Woman in Beijing.
Bittersweetcan be analyses based
on the feminist perspective because it contains
many women’s movement and Danielle Steel describes it though feminist perspective and can be analysis
marriage it is a way or as a bridge for woman
and man the tie namely family it is portrayedin bittersweet novel Danielle Steel’s novel Bittersweet because it
is a powerful novel. Danielle Steel has
been hailed as one of the world's most popular authors, with over 450 million copies of her novels sold. Her many
international bestsellers include Lone Eagle,
Journey, The House on Hope Street, The Wedding, Irresistible Forces, Granny Dan, Bittersweet, The Klone and I,
Mirror Image, The Long Road Home, The
Ghost, and other highly acclaimed novels. www:// search barnesandnoble.
com/ booksearch Although there are many good novels which can
be selected, Danielle Steele’s
Bittersweet is one of the novel that give new experience to thereader.
Therefore, it can be said that
reading literature is not merely aimed at getting additional entertainment but also expected
that thereader use their intelligence in obtaining the information in literature.
In Bittersweet, there is an
interesting thing to be analyzed Bittersweet, tells and contains some important messages
especially forfemale to change and open their
mind widely by thinking, deciding, and doing everything logically through deep thought, based on the above consideration
It is portrayed in Bittersweet that
women are expected not only to work but also
to look after the kids and do the housework besides, women are statistically paid less for doing the same jobs as men and
hold relatively few high-powered jobs
compared to men. For women have made progress but there are still major inequalities in the society that are needed to
be solved. Thus Bittersweetcan be analyzed
based on the feminist perspective of marriage because it contains many female movements in their neighborhood.
The writer wants to specify the
literary analysis of feminist perspective of marriage in the novel Bittersweetbecause it is
very amazing and unique, novel which is
different from others. The difference lieson its exposing the female is a long history as a revolutionary movement.
From the above reasons the writer
wants to analyze this novel through the Feminist
Perspective of marriage and hopefully thisanalysis can be useful for the next student who will analyzes on English
novel based on feminist perspective.
1.2 Statement of the Problem The problems to be answered in this study
consist of two main parts: 1. What are feminist perspectives of marriage
reflected by the characters in
Bittersweet? 2. What is the violence
against women in marriage reflected in the Bittersweet novel? 1.3 Objectives of the Study
The purposes of the study are to find
the answers of the stated problems namely,
i.e: 1.
To identity feminist perspective of marriage in Bittersweet by Danielle Steel.
2. To describe the violence against women in
marriage Bittersweet By Danielle Steel.
1.4 Significance of the Study Understanding the content of the Novel deeply
is one important thing that should be
owned by the readers when they read a novel.
This study has some significance for those who
paymuch attention on literary works,
viewed from on the feminist perspective. The significances are is as follows.
Theoretically,the researcher
hopes that this research would give beneficial contribution to the progress of
feministliterary criticism. Therefore, the readers should understand the feminist
literary works, which raise some current issues on textual construction of gender.
Practically, it is hoped that
result of this study will enrich the references on the field of literature, and will be an
additional source of information for increasing
and developing the growth of literary criticism especially on the novel.
1.5 Scope and Limitation In order to have more detailed discussion, the
researcher investigates only two aspects
those are the feminist perspectives of marriage and the men’s control over women’ position as reflected in
the novel.
1.6 Definition of the Key Terms The definition of the key terms on this study
is aimed at avoiding misunderstanding on
the study. The terms are necessary to be defined are as follows: 1.
Novel is a prose fiction that has plot representing the life of human being imaginatively (Tarigan, 1984: 164) 2.
Feminismis the belief system that women and men are equal.
Believing that women deserve the
same rights, respect, and chances as
men. (http://www.cs.uu.nl/wais/html/nadir/feminism/info.html): 3.
Marriage is way or as a bridge for a woman and a man builds the tie namely family, it is organization that
consist of a husband, a wife, and with
or without children, and may with other person(Muriati,
2004:197) CHAPTER II REVIEW OF THE
RELATED LITERATURE 2.1 Feminist Literary
Criticism The concept in literary
feminist criticism is the effort to understand the position and role of women that are reflected
in the literary works (Sugihastuti & Suharto, 2002:15). First of all on the
position androle of women characters in the literary works are that still dominated by man
characters. So, the effort to understand
the works are to know the gender discrimination occurs and seen in the real, daily world.
Second, from the reception of readers in many
countries, it seems that women
characters in literary works are under the men characters in many aspects, such as social background, occupation, the
role in society, and so on. In other word,
the women character has lower degree than mencharacter.
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