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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
A. Object of the Study
The object of the study is
Fifty Shades of Grey
written by E.L. James. The novel was first published in 2011 by The Writer‘s Coffee Shop Publishing House.
The story is fiction, more about erotic- romance of the main characters‘ life.
Fifty Shades of Grey
is the first serial of the Fifty Shades Trilogy. There are
Fifty Shades of Grey
as the first serial,
Fifty Shades of Darker
as the second, and
Fifty Shades of Freed
as the third.
Fifty Shades of Grey
was filmed by the director Sam Taylor-Johnson and released in 2015.
The story is about a billionaire named Christian Grey who meets Anastasia Steele in the interview for the campus magazine. Afterwards, Grey is interested in
Steele and tries to approach her. Steele, sees him as the ideal figure of a man, falls in love with him. However, their relationship is run and dominated by Grey
because he is the one who gives order intentionally, controls, and determines what Steele should do for their relationship. Within their relationship, Grey is the active
one, while Steele is the passive one. Grey is interested in a different kind of relationship. He intends to have
sexual relationship with her to fulfill his pleasure and she must agree with him whenever and wherever he wants to do it. He wants to have a BDSM Bondage
and Discipline, Dominance and Submission, Sadism and Masochism
relationship with her. In relationship, Steele is the Submissive and Grey is the Dominant. A Submissive is the D
ominant‘s property that must receive everything done by her Dominant, obey him, and take his order, if not; there will be
punishment for her.
B. Approach of the Study
The approach of the study is Gender Studies Approach, discussing about gender and the contribution of class in women‘s oppression. As explained in
A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature,
gender studies helps to understand the portrayal of the female and male characters in the story.
Furthermore, gender studies helps to explain why the oppression is experienced by the female character rather than the male character.
However, in gender studies, the gender trouble itself is supported by other factor, like class.
Following Michel Foucaults theory of sexuality, she means by technology that sexuality, commonly thought to be a natural as
well as a private matter, is in fact completely constructed in culture according to the political aims of the societys dominant class.
Guerin et al, 2005: 237 The contribution of class helps to explain what is thought to be natural and
normal in society is actually constructed by the dominant class because they have power in society to control and to shape the way each individual perceives the
world, especially the relation of one class to another and between the sexes. The class system helps to reveal why the oppression is done by the dominant class
towards the rest class.
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