YouTube. Watching the play online was also helpful to see details of the play like
how character, setting, and plot were arranged and how the dialogues were overlapped. The third step was gathering and close reading some sources, written and online,
related to the questions in problem formulation which were about postmodernism, feminism, and postmodern feminism. They all were used in analyzing the work and
explaining the answer for the problems. After gathering and close reading the sources, the fourth step was that the theory of
fragmentation was applied to answer the first problem. It was to get the point on how the character, setting and plot were fragmented. And then using the approach of postmodern
feminism, the writer answered the second problem which is about the significance of the use of fragmentation as a medium in revaluing women‟s position.
The last step was drawing conclusion of the analysis. It was done by relating all the data in the analysis based on the theories and approach that the writer used, then made it
into general statement. That is how the study was conducted.
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CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS
Top Girls could be seen as a typical feminist writing. Its existence is to criticize the
patriarchal idea at that time and also what existed before it. It is true that Top Girls is a work that has direct implication with Churchill‟s own political background as a feminist.
Churchill in her interview with Betsko and Koenig says: When I was in the States in „79 I talked to some women who were saying how well
things were going for women in America now with far more top executives being women, and I was struck by difference between that and the feminism I was used to
in England which is far more closely connected with socialism 1987:77.
From what Churchill has said to Betsko and Koenig, we know her stand point that she is more a social feminist. She presents her Top Girls
as the reaction towards not only men‟s domina
tion but also other women‟s domination. Top Girls
is a 1980s play that was produced as a direct response to political event. It is that Top Girls produced in opposition to Thatcherism Tycer, 2008: 13-17. Margaret
Thatcher was elected as Britain‟s first female prime minister in 1979 www.bbc.co.ukhistorypeoplemargaret_thatcher. While people in general saw it as a
victory for equal representation, Churchill saw it only as a shift to a capitalism where things would get worse under Thatcher.
Top Girls is written in postmodern style. Churchill uses fragmentation to deliver her
message. The story is broken down into seven parts that are within three Acts. What has been fragmented in this play and its signification are explain in the next section.
