the she is a bad girl which actually is not true. Both of the women experience the violence by Richie which shows that there is something wrong with the family.
B. Approach of the Study
Literature deals with the environment and the society that the readers should understand. So, when the work is read by the reader, it should give them a
perspective on the environment and the society. From the issues which appear in the novel, feminist criticism is relevant to apply in this thesis.
“Broadly defined, feminist criticism examines the ways in which literature and other cultural
productions reinforces or undermines the economic, political, social, and psychological oppression of women.
” Tyson, 2006: 83. Furthermore,
Indeed, feminism has often focused upon what is absent rather than what is present, reflecting concern with the silencing and marginalization of
women in a patriarchal culture, a culture organized in the favor of men Guerin, 2005: 222-223.
From the quotation above, feminism focuses on the silencing of women in a society where men dominate over women.
C. Method of the Study
The method of this thesis is library research. The writer conducted the
analysis by searching for some references in some books and documents.
There were some steps to help the writer to analyze the study. The first was selecting a novel as the object of the analysis. In this thesis, Rainbow
Rowell ’s Eleanor and Park was chosen. Then, the writer read it carefully to
understand the novel well.
The second was focusing on the issue of patriarchy, the violence, and the struggle of the women characters. The issues were also understood well in order
to gain the clear knowledge of the problems appearing in the novel. The third was deciding the approach that was used in the analysis in order
to get the deeper meaning and see the message which was delivered by using the novel. In the novel, the female characters experience violence because of the male
character. Because the female character of the novel experience oppression, feminist criticism was used as an approach.
The fourth was observing the problem of patriarchy that was experienced by the female characters. In here, the theory of patriarchy was applied. Then the
theory of characterization was used to get the clues and also to understand of the characters.
The fifth was observing the relation between patriarchy and domestic violence carefully. In here, the theory of the relation between patriarchy and the
domestic violence were used. Thus, the writer could see that in the patriarchy, the domestic violence could occur.
The sixth was the examining results of patriarchy that made the women characters oppressed. In here, the theory of domestic violence was applied. Then,
the categories of violence of each woman character were explained. The seventh was examining two women characters that were analyzed by
using the theory of women oppression. This helped the writer to analyze women ’s
struggle toward the domestic violence. The last was drawing the conclusion of the study. This was the result of the research from the first step until the last step.
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