as the inferior in this play. Moreover, this image that Mr. Henderson is the superior and Mrs. Peters is the inferior becomes clearer when it is related to the gender
stereotype. Referring to the fact in the gender stereotype that women are considered as weak and passive while men are strong, active, and more intelligent, it is easy to
judge Mr. Henderson is superior and Mrs. Peters is inferior rather than the opposite thing.
b. Male Apathetic vs. Female Sympathetic
Again, in the previous discussion, it is clear that the characteristics of male and female characters are presented in binary opposition. Here, when Mr. Wright is
characterized as an apathetic person, Mrs. Hale is characterized as a sympathetic person. According to the attributes of these two characteristic, it is understandable
that apathetic is more independent than sympathetic, so that it is not a complicated thing for the readers to judge that Mr. Wright is the superior and Mrs. Hale is the
inferior. When this fact is related to the gender stereotype, it is clearer that Mr. Wright is the superior, the one that does the domination and Mrs. Hale is an inferior
person that becomes the dominated person. Mr. Wright’s apathetic is considered as
the aspect of superiority because by ignoring the society around will not be a problem for him and shows his power as an independent person. However, Mrs. Hale is the
inferior person because her sympathetic is considered as the evidence that she realizes as a human being, she needs others to live her life.
c. Male Careless vs. Female Incisive
Also in the previous analysis, Susan Glaspell characterizes the male and female characters in binary opposition. In this case, when Mr. Henderson is
characterized as a careless person, the female characters, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters are automatically characterized as incisive person. Different from the two previous
binaries that always state male’s characteristics are featured with better attributes
rather that the female’s characteristic, here it happens the opposite thing. They are Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters that possess incisive characteristic, the characteristic that is
featured with better attributes rather than Mr. Henderson’s careless characteristic.
However, it does not make a finding that makes Mr. Henderson as inferior and Mrs. Hale Mrs. Peters as superior. In this binary, the finding is still the same because
when this binary opposition is related to gender stereotype, it is also found that Mr. Henderson is still the superior, the character that does the domination, and both Mrs.
Hale and Mrs. Peters are the inferior, persons that should experience the domination of the men. This finding is based on the fact that
Mr. Henderson’s carelessness is the element of superior because it shows us that Mr. Henderson does not want to discuss
the topic chosen by the women, which the topic is regarded as unimportant thing for him. Mr. Henderson, as a dominant person, has his own standard of which topic is
worthy to be discussed or not. Here, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters become incisive since they are not allowed to get involved to the investigation and stay in kitchen area,
where the evidence of them murder case are mostly found there. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
