and understanding. It makes people understand human dreams, desires and struggles that happen in different places and times.
1.2 The Statement of Problem
From this analysis I want to show that women have to be independent to discover every aspect of their being and to develop each component in their own way by using Little
Women. The book, Little Women, chronicles the lives of the March Family; Father, Marmee,
Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, and it details the struggles of the March women, especially Jo, to find sustenance for their family and identities of their own in the culture of a
masculine society. www.wikipedia.com
Based on the statement above, I point out that the problems of analysis are: 1.
How do the women struggle in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women?
2. How do the characters fight for life in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women?
1.3 The Objectives of Analysis
The objectives of the analysis tend to answer the problems of the analysis. Based on the problems above, the objectives of this analysis mainly:
1. To show the women struggle in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women.
2. To show the characters fight for life in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women.
1.4 The Scope of Analysis
In doing the analysis of literary work, actually there should be a scope of analysis, so the object that will be analyzed become clear and the purpose of the analysis are easy to
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understand by the readers. In this thesis I would like to analyze the women struggle through the characters of Little Women.
1.5 The Significance of Analysis
The analysis of this thesis is expected to give significance to the readers who want to understand and appreciate literature in general and the works of Louisa May Alcott in
particular. I also hope this thesis will be useful for the readers or people who need this thesis as a reference. As for human being, this thesis hopefully can help us to give more respect to
others especially women indeed.
1.6 The Theoretical Approach
In order to search the relationship between the novel and social values, there are two approaches which can be used. First, intrinsic approach which an approach that emphasized
on the elements of the novel itself. As Rene Wellek and Austin Warren says in their book Theory of Literature
1967:73, 81, 110 that the natural and sensible starting point to work in literary scholarship is the interpretation and analysis of the work of literature themselves. It
means that it is important to analyze the literary works from the elements of the literary works themselves in order to get the information. Second, extrinsic approach which analyzes
the literary work from external factors of the literary work such as; biography, autobiography, history, psychology and other factors that support the making of the novel.
In analyzing this thesis, I use both of the approaches. Deals with the intrinsic approach, I have to attempt to read the text carefully, try to classify them into their own
element and make a conclusion. I also use extrinsic approach because there is a relation between the novel and the author. Jo’s character in the novel has almost the same character of
Alcott in the past.
1.7 The Theoretical Review
