Male Apathetic vs. Female Sympathetic
However, the possibility of the different finding is widely open when this phenomenon is analyzed by deconstruction perspective because “deconstruction aims
to give a strategy for reading that opens up a variety of new interpretations heretofore unseen by those who are bound by the restraints of Western Thought” Bressler,
1999: 126, in which it also often said in more simple word as “reading the text against itself, with the purpose of knowi
ng the text as it cannot know itself” Barry, 2002: 71.
As the explanation of the application of that theory which tells about the possibility of various interpretations, here
Mrs. Hale’s words are taken as the example. These words are the same words that express the action of Mrs. Wright.
MR. HENDERSON. cross to up left door facetiously Well, Henry, at least we found out that she was not going to quilt it. She was going to
—what is it you call it, ladies?
MRS. HALE. standing center below table facing front, her hand against her pocket We call it
—knot it, Mr. Henderson. McQuade, 1999: 990 In this case, the discussion is concerned on the answer of Mrs. Hale that
sounds as “She Mrs. Wright was going to tie the quilt”. This discussion demonstrates that the ambiguity in a text results the inconstant meaning in a text.
It can be said that these words may be interpreted as the describing way to illustrate Mrs. Wright’s method to murder her husband, Mr. Wright. For example,
these words can be interpreted as “She Mrs. Wright knots the rope around her
husband’s neck when she chokes him”. Meanwhile, the similar case also occurs in the characteristics of the male and
female characters. As already discussed, some of their characteristics are the outline PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
that controls the story in this play in order to reach the conflict or the climax. However, since these characteristics represent the binary opposition, they have and
operational system that can be described as “the male characters who are featured with dominant characteristics intolerant, apathetic, careless, hard are superior in
society, and the female characters who are featured with less dominant characteristics tolerant, sympathetic, incisive, sociable are regarded as inferior
”. However, that finding is opposed with this succeeding discussion.