Novel in the Kind of Slave Narrative
imagination of the writer and sometimes taken from the writer‘s experience, thus novel presents an everyday life and has a close relation with the reader
experiences. More than three centuries ago, novel emerged as a form of prose
fictions. This is one of the literary genres that emerged in Europe in late seventeenth and
early eighteenth century. A novel concerned with ―the real life of past or present time Hawthorn: 2001:9. Readers can come into the world
created in the novel in the same way the author does. Due to its capability in presenting the reality into the literature, Hawthorn 2001:8 claims that novel
can represent the real life situations.
…the novel depicts imaginary and situations. A novel may include reference to real places, people and events,
but it cannot contain only such reference and remain a novel. Even though its character and actions are
imaginary they are the some sense ‗representative of real life‘ …
Regarding to feminism, novel as one of the types of a fiction is
rendered as bringing out claims or ideological assumptions that have been long shaped by male oriented ideology. Men and women have different point of view
about literature, and that what have been considered as neutral about literature was really the male point of view.
Indeed, stories cannot be separated from the novel. Whether the stories are true or fictive, it may relate to events of life. For instance, many novels
focus on an analysis how women represented in literary works. Domination of men in literature can obviously be seen in women representation as being weak,
dependent, inferior, fragile etc. The inferiority of women as represented in novel has become a
culture. Endraswara 2003:144 says‖ many literary represent women as being loyal, tender, modest, full of forgiveness, and devotion”. Women are also
represented as a figure for competition by men especially of their beauty and ability‖. Women are considered only as companion for men. Those
representations regard as the influence of patriarchy system, which position women as inferior. This construction influences women
‘s position and representation in society and job field, where they cannot participate actively
and freely, since main role is at home. There are several novels which tell about slavery such Mice and Men,
Oliver Twist, Girl with a Pearl Earring and The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Oliver Twist is kind of novel which is toldabout slavery in
London. Mice and Men is kind of novel which is tell about slavery in South of Soledad, Girl with a Pearl Earring is a novel which is tell about slavery in
Dutch in 1600s, and The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass novel tell about slavery in American.