Objectives of the Study Scope of the Study Research Methods

3. How can Marxist feminism be described by character of Katniss Everdeen in Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins?

1.3 Objectives of the Study

The main purpose of this study is to understand some elements related to the research problems above. While, the objectives of this study are: 1. To understand how intrinsic elements of prose are applied in Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins. 2. To discover how the process of class struggle occurs in Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins. 3. To examine how theory of Marxist feminism is reflected by Katniss Everdeen in Suzanne Collins’s Mockingjay.

1.4 Scope of the Study

This thesis focuses on analyzing the novel Mockingjay using intrinsic elements such as character, setting, plot, and symbol. Moreover, the extrinsic element uses Marxist feminism. Marxist feminism theory provides an explanation how Katniss Everdeen, the main character of Mockingjay can be the leader of communal movement to gain revolution. It also describes her independence to struggle for being alive. Moreover, it also explains the process to defeat capitalism and domination of certain social class. In addition, Marxist feminism serves an explanation about gaining revolution that is led by a woman.

1.5 Research Methods

This study uses sociological approach to examine the content of Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins. Sociological approach in this study focuses on the social aspect from society of the story in Mockingjay. According to Wellek and Warren, sociological approach uses a theory of an expert of social philosophy such as Marxism to analyze the literary works. He said that “this sociological approach to literature is particularly cultivated by those who profess a specific social philosophy” 1942: 90. Therefore, this thesis uses sociological approach, because it discusses the existence of Marxist feminism. Moreover, there are two elements discussed in this study. Those are intrinsic elements and extrinsic elements. The intrinsic elements involve character, setting, plot and symbol. For the extrinsic elements, there are class struggle, domination, alienation and also Marxist feminism. The reason why there are two elements involved in this study is due to the relations between intrinsic elements and extrinsic elements to support each other. The extrinsic elements cannot stand alone to discuss the content of a literary work. It needs the intrinsic elements to explain characters, setting, plot, and symbol in literary work. The method of data collection in this study is library research. The writer discovered some references related to the study and got some information and material by note taking, reading, studying and discussing. The data for this study come from two sources: 1. Primary Source Using a novel entitled Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins published in 2010 by Scholastic Inc. 2. Secondary Source The secondary source is taken from library research and internet source as the references of this thesis.

1.6 Organization of the Thesis