passivity, emotionalism, and subjectivity, so that they are given the job to be the follower; the house keeper Eisenstein, 1984: 10-11.
In patriarchy men are seen to be more important than women. Their feeling and opinion are important. Women here just for mens pleasure and they are the
assistance of men. They should fulfill their natural feminine functions. In patriarchy, women are different with men and they should not compete with men
Freeman, 1984: 553. In patriarchy the role of women in family is so big and it is quite different
from men. Women are responsible for the love of the family. They are responsible for cleaning, laundering, producing food, and child caring. Those duties need
skills that are quite complicated for a human being to do. Because of that, women since their childhood were trained to learn those duties Hoffnung, 1984:125.
In this society, women are only seen as mere object that are placed in the house in order to do householdwork. Things done by men outside the house are
for money. It makes the whole family depend on the husband for the living. The wife, inside the house, has to provide the comfort and the love for the husband and
children Hoffnung, 1984: 125.
3. Feminist Theory
The explanation of feminist theory can be seen in Bijay Kumar Das book, Twentieth Century Criticism. In his book, he stated an opinion that women are
believe that they are inferior to men and found theirselves dependent on men. Male are the people who have power. In the society, people who have power tend
to see other people not valuable. Women always have to obey the men; a wife should follow everything what her husband said. Women do not have their own
freedom, their life already construct by the men.It is basically spreads out from his mind from the realization that the world is masculine, because the whole who
fashioned it, ruled it, and still dominate it today are men 2002:145. From the beginning of their life, women are always told that they should obey
men because men are superior. Women believe that they are inferior to men because the society learned them to do so. Since men have power to rule, they
tend to see women not value. This case makes men dominated the society and control the society, it also causes oppression for women. This kind of society
happens because of the society is very religious and lives according what God wants in the middle ages. Catholic Bible also explains that Adams role is to be
Eves Master. ...thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. Genesis 3:16. In Old Testament which is found in the Catholic Bible
“No wickedness comes anywhere near the wickedness of woman... Sin began with a woman and thanks to her we all must die”
Ecclesiasticus 25:19, 24.
In middle ages, people truly believe in churchs lesson, these beliefs have rooted to people mindset. It also builds stereotypes and perception in the society
that women are less valued than men. This study explains the feminist idea which is depicted through the major
female characters. It contrasts with the stereotypes of women inside the novel. The beginning of feminist history are called as the first wave feminism, usually
concerns about the establishment of the legal policy which states that woman are PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
human beings and it never be treated as a property.According to Madsen theory, a woman must break the bonds of her patriarchal society and defines herself if she
wishes to become a significant human being in her own right and defy male classification as the other Madsen, 2000:182.
Stanton and Blatch says that personal freedom is the first right to be proclaimed, and that does not and can not now belong to the relation of wife, to
the financial dependent Stanton and Blatch, 1969, vol 2:70. It must become the basic idea that must be applied in womens life. Personal freedom is an important
thing for human beings including women.Women must survive their condition of being oppressed but they must aware of their condition first and let their selves to
be survived from their deepest heart. In the novel, there are many scenes when women are being raped by men.
It is clear that there is a hidden meaning from the existence of a rape scene in the novel.In her site, Susan Brownmiller states the action of rape connected with
human primal act of sex and cannot be separated from biological matter. However, humans have a complex system of psychological signs and urges; our
call to sex occurs in our head. Without a biologically determined mating season, a human male can
evince sexual interest in a human female at any time he pleases, and his psychologic urge is not dependent in the slightest on her biologic
readiness or receptivity. What it all boils down to is that the human male can rape
http:www.susanbrownmiller.comsusanbrownmillerhtmlagainst_o ur_will.html
. In her book, Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape, Brownmiller argues
that rape is the form of patriarchy, served as the perpetuation of male domination PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
over women by force 1991:209. She suggested that the hidden meaning of rape is connected to the concept of treating women as property.
C. Theoretical Framework
