CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the study Literature is human’s expression. All about
human life is written in literature. In
other words, literature works such as drama or play, novel and poem expose the human life. According to Podis (In
Sri Hartiningsih ‘Education to literature’
2002. p.3) ‘Literature is an art form that generally means an imaginative writing from which the fictional
word is created’. In this case, literature
often attempts to convey something important about life or society. It proves that literature is a real reflection on
human happiness or sorrow. By literature,
someone can change the way of people’s thinking that will color the world. There are always some messages, points
of view, and ideas trying to be explored
by literature.
The forms of literature or we
call literary works are divided into drama, novel and poetry. Literary works have a
function asmedia of communication between
writer and reader. Through the literary works, we can broad our knowledge and learn to be wisdom in seeing the
world. In other words, reading literary
works will give us both the pleasure and knowledge. The important thing in analyzing literary works is to understand
what literary works try to say, what the
ideas of literary works are tried to deliver, because literary works are a way
for people to learn and teach about the
way of people saying, hearing, and seeing the 1 real
life. Besides, literary works also have the important role for society in particular time.
Literary works are also used as a
data source. As a data source, literary works
have functions as a fiction and fact that is divided into genres. Novel, for example, is created to criticize the problem
that happens in the special place and time.
It is also a collection of ideas that aim to solve the problem which appears in
the society. ‘Besides, the literary work
can be used as a control of life in society’ (Ratna, 2005:2).
In this analysis, the writer
concerns on one of literary works namely novel.
According to Webster (In Sri
Hartiningsih ‘Materi Pembelajaran Prose’, 2002. p.
2) ‘Novel is a fiction prose
narrative of considerable length, portraying character, action and scene representative of real life
in a plot of more and less intricacy’.
Reading a novel is not only for
getting a pleasure and entertainment, furthermore, it is also reading for getting knowledge.
Novel gives the reader many perspectives about the real life. According to Peck and
Coyle (1984) ‘Novels do not, however, present
a documentary picture of life. Alongside the fact that novels look at the people in society, the other major
characteristic of the genre is that novels tell a story’ (p.102).By understanding the
perspective of real life, we can broad our vision to see the world, the environment and
even in our own life.
Wings is one of the novels that
is written by the famous women writer, Danielle
Steel. This novel is purely fiction, all the characters are fiction. In addition, the interesting things that the
writer found in this novel is how the author’s
expression and creation of the characters.By taking the setting of the age of European war, the author makes this novel
more lively and interesting. As other women
writer, in Wings, Danielle Steel also describes the story of women’s struggle to get their freedom from the
exploitationand marginalization. The girl’s name is Cassie O’Malley who tries to get her
dream to be a pilot.
In this analysis, the writer
tries to explore some ideas that is given in the novel Wings by Danielle Steel especially ideas
about feminist. Feminism has gradually
become more far-ranging and subtle in itsattacks on male-dominated society. Many injustices still need to be
correctedby feminism. ‘Feminism brings an
issue about gender equality in every aspect. Men’s domination has secured an ideological climate of compliance:
Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers and scientists have striven to show that the
subordinate position of women is willed in heaven and advantageous in earth’ (Selden,
1993:210). By this statement, the writer
tries to explore the spirit of feminist as portrayed in the novel. In this
case, writer wants to analyze the
exploitation over womenand the factors that influence it.
On wings,women’s exploitation and women’s
struggle to get their freedom become the
major theme. In this novel, Danielle Steel describes about the exploitation of women under capitalism.
Through thecharacter of Cassie O’Malley,
Danielle Steel presents the illustration of women’s struggle in fighting the exploitation and patriarchal culture. In
this analysis, the writer intends to explore
the exploitation of female character and the factors that influence it.
This analysis begins from the
young Cassie, where at that time, she feels unequal between her and her brother. When he
was teenager, she has a fascination with
airplanes and she really wants to be a pilot, but her father against her. Her father wants his son to be the one whose
follows his footsteps, not his daughter.
Conservative in his ways,
Cassie's father felt it is improper for a young lady to become a pilot or even learn to fly. But
Cassie keeps trying to prove that she has a talent in airplane, and the end, she gets
permission from his father.
Cassie feels the exploitation over herself
after she becomes a famous pilot and
marriage with Desmond Williams, the California businessman whose see her talent and invite her to become his newest
test pilot. After getting marriage with Desmond
Williams she knows that her choice is not good as she thinks before.
She must faces a pain fact that
her husband doesn’tlove her as she thinks, but he only loves Cassie’s talent. And Desmond always
gives a new contract for Cassie to
entrap her in doing what he wants.
Basically, this analysis is
inspired by some students’ research that did the study of feminism perspective in literature,
but indifferent object. The first is Safitri,
(UIN Malang) with her thesis entitled “Feminist Perspective found in Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen”. In her
thesis she focused his research on the
right of female character which is described onthe novel, how man controls women’s position in society and also the
effect of author’s cultural background influenced
to literary work. Due to the fact, she used feminist literary criticism’s approach. Second is Sulis Rohmawati, (UIN
Malang) with her thesis entitled “Feminist
Perspective on Female Character in A Women of Independent Means by Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey”In her thesis she
focused on women independent and how
they get it. The last is Rizal Nursalim, (UIN Malang) with his thesis entitled “Women’s Effort to be Independence
from Men’s Domination in Anne Bronte’s
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall” in his thesis he used feminist literary criticism’s approach because he focused on
women’s effort to be independent women
and have a right to marry with someone whom she loves. All the writers have analyzed novels and described women’s
problem in society and in the family clearly.
The writer also analyzes women’s problem but she still has some different points in analyzing Wings. First, the writer
focuses her research on the exploitation
of women and some factors that influence women’s exploitation.
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