CHAPTER V CONCLUSION
In this chapter, the researcher will draw a conclusion from the analysis. In this study, the researcher found how Lisa See uses a literary work which is a novel to
show the strong patriarchal culture in China in the nineteenth century, which in turn makes women helpless. The researcher found that the lives of Chinese women who
live in the nineteenth century are not easy. As experienced by the two main characters in this novel, Lily and Snow Flower. The researcher finds three important
points to be the root of the problem, which in turn brings women into the hole of suffering and oppression. They are footbinding, arranged marriage, and domestic
violence. Because China is a patriarchal culture where men more dominating and holding the power, it makes women as inferior beings. Chinese patriarchal system
has been set up so neatly with the aim to make women always obey and submit to men. The suffering is first started with the practice of binding the feet. Women
should follow the tradition of footbinding since the age of six or seven years. Having a pair of tiny feet is not only considered as a symbol of beauty in China, but also as a
symbol of social status. Because women in Chinese patriarchal culture is in the lowest position or they are regarded as worthless in the society, women are the one
who have to bear the ugliness by raising their self-esteem by doing the practice of footbinding. For women of the upper classes, having a pair of tiny feet is a mark of
their hierarchy, while for women from the lower classes, doing the practice of
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footbinding is an opportunity to improve their status. By having a pair of tiny feet, women are considered worthy to be married. The marriage is not marriage that is
based on the will and the love between a man and a woman. The woman just needs to be present on her wedding day because it has been arranged by the family from
both sides. After getting married, the woman will move into the home of the husband. The woman should do her duties as a good wife – being a submissive and
obedient wife to her husband, serving her husband, giving birth to children especially sons, doing housework, and taking care of the husband’s family members.
Marriage has made women become the property of the husband completely. Therefore, the husband has the right to do anything to her including doing domestic
violence. Because women are powerless, they just figure out how to survive. Lily and
Snow Flower try to survive as it is something very natural and very human to have the instinct to survive. The researcher found that although women have difficulties
living under Chinese patriarchal culture, Lily and Snow Flower can survive in a patriarchal culture. A bond in the form of female friendship contributes to making
their survival in the difficult condition of living under Chinese patriarchal culture. Female friendship becomes a hope for them to survive in a patriarchal culture.
Female friendship is a means for women to influence each other, exchange ideas, share the joys and sorrows, and help each other. Despite all the activities done by
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