Aborigines In Western Australia In The 19
th
Century As Reflected In Alice Nannup’s Life In When The Pelican Laughed, Baskara also discusses about the major
character’s Alice Nannup struggle, but he focus more on the idea of postcolonialism that is revealed by the characters. He states:
The second part of the analysis will study the indigenous struggle in Western Australia in 19
th
cent ury that are reflected through Alice Nannup’s
characteristics in When The Pelican Laughed. The theory of indigenous struggle is used to help the writer to analyze what kind of struggle emerge
in the characteristics of Alice Nannup. Besides, the writer also uses the postcolonialism approach to see what happened in Australia during the
colonialism period Baskara, 2010:68.
We can see in the quotation above, the researcher has almost the same object of the study with Baskara, but the approach that the researcher uses to analyze the
characters is different. Baskara uses postcolonialism approach to analyze the characters, while the researcher uses feminism approach in his research.
B. Review of Related Theories
1. Theory of Characterization According to Characterization theory in Thomas R Arp and Greg Johnson’s
Perrine’s Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense, there are some ways to describe a human character in a story. First the author of the story will decide whether he or
she uses a Direct Presentation by tell the reader about the character or Indirect Presentation by show the reader the character through the actions Arp and Johnson,
2006: 162. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
According to M.J Murphy in Understanding Unseen: An Introduction to English Poetry and the English Novel for Overseas Students, there are 9 ways to
know the characteristics of the character, those arefrom personal description like the character
’s appearances and clothes, character description as seen by another or opinions from other characters, Speech of the character or what character said in
the story, character’s past life or past experience, conversation of other characters and all things that other characters said about him or her, character reaction to some
situations, direct comment by the author, thoughts by the third person point of view, and mannerisms that can describe a character’s habits.
M.H. Abrams also has some methods for characterizing, in A Glossary of Literary Terms
he says, “The author may show not only external speech and actions, but also character’s inner thoughts, feelings, and responsiveness to events; for a
highly developed mode of such i nner showing” Abrams, 1999: 33-34. So, instead
of speech and physical actions that occur in the story, the author may show character’s thoughts, feelings and responses to the events that happen in the story.
2. Theory of Feminism Feminist literary criticism is the product of woman movement that deals
with literature and focuses on the significance of the images of the woman that appear in literary work. Barry, 2002: 121. It shows the importance of the women
in every aspect of our life and women have the same role just like men. Barry also writes:
