c. Marxist Feminism
This kind of feminism is the reaction of the liberal feminism. They think that women’s decline is not the cause of the direct individual action but it is from
the economic, social and political structure in relation with capitalism. A family is a production group where whole family including women does
all humans needs in survival. But after the development of industrial capitalism, a family is no longer being the production group llyas 48.
Nowadays, women are no longer the part of production and the sexual working classes appear. Men can get the public job, which is more productive and
economical while women can only have the domestic job, which is unproductive and uneconomical. The Marxist feminism refused the basic gender differentiation,
where a husband is described as the bourgeois class and women are the oppressed class.
d. Socialist
Feminism
The socialist feminist argues that living in the capitalist community is not the main reason of womens under development. Socialist feminists criticize that
there is a connection between womens participation in production and womens status. It is true that womens participation is important in economics but it does
not mean to increase the womens status. Ilyas stated that there is a correlation between the women’s participation level and womens status but it makes the
women as slaves only Ilyas 51.
This feminism movement is focused on the womens consciousness about these disadvantages positions. The socialist feminisms purpose is to structure the
society in order to get the equality in gender. On the other hand, socialist feminism highlights the relationship between paid work and domestic labor in
which it reveals the impact of the sexual division of labor, by pointing out that women in the home do more work.
C. Theoretical Framework
The focus of the study is on the analysis of feminism portrayed in the main character, Celie, in Alice Walkers The Color Purple. Theories related to the study
must be used to accomplish the analysis. Some theories of intrinsic elements are used to support the analysis of the main character. The theories of character by
Abrams, which provide definitions of the term character, extend descriptions on the understanding of what
character in fiction is. Abrams also differentiated the character into major and minor based on their importance.
Foster’s theory is helpful to determine the complexity of the nature of the character, which refers to flat and round character. By using Fosters theory, I can
recognize what kind of character Celie is. By the application of the theory, it can be concluded whether Celie is a flat or a round character.
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