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C. Research M ethodology
The w rit er uses descript ive qualit ative research t o analyze t his novel and other relat ed dat a sources t o support t he subject m at t er. Cressw ell 2007: 36
st at es t hat descript ive research is a kind of qualit at ive research in which t he researcher describes t he present st at us of people, at titude, and progress.
In this st udy, the w rit er focuses on analyzing t he plot in Pavilion of Women
novel. It is used to find the gender equality shown on the novel. This st udy
deals w ith one of Buck’s novels ent it led Pavilion of Women.
For first t ime it w as published in 1946 as a John Day Edit ion. In this case t he w rit er uses Pavilion of Women novel t hat w as published in 1975 by Pocket
Book. This novel is divided into 15 chapt ers and consist ed of 329 pages. This novel is over 2 m illion sold in Unit ed St at e. It also had been m ade as m ovie in
Am erica and shown all over t he w orld. The aut hor of t he novel, Pearl S. Buck, w ho w as born on the 26th of June 1892 in Hillsboro, West Virginia, in 1932 got
a Pulit zer Prize and in 1938 a Nobel Prize in Lit erat ure. This t hesis
uses descript ive qualit ative m et hod. There are t w o dat a
sources in t his research. The prim ary dat a sources is Buck’s novels ent itled
Pavilion of Women . It w as first published in 1946 as a John Day Edit ion. In t his
case t he w rit er uses Pavilion of W omen novel t hat w as published in 1975 by Pocket Book. This novel is divided into 15 chapt ers and consist ed of 329
pages. And the theory and also the approach, as the secondary dat a sources.
The dat a collect ion is done through document at ion of library research. The document at ion, based on John W Cresw ell 2007: 118 is a kind of dat a
collect ion which uses all of t he dat a sources, t he primary and secondary dat a analyze. There are som e st eps used by t he w rit er in collect ing t he dat a, t hose
are reading the novel and finding out the import ant sent ence on the dialogues, reading the books t hat are relat ed t o the research, brow sing to the
int ernet t o get som e informat ion, such as art icles, journal, essays and et c, that are relat ed t o t he research, finding out the important dat a, analyzing t he dat a,
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arranging the import ant dat a based on it s, developing the dat a that are provided and making conclusion on the data.
The first problem in this st udy is about underst anding t he charact er of M adam e Wu as t he m ain charact er in t he novel, Pavilion of Women. The
second is about the experiences of M adame Wu in pat riarchal culture. To answ er t his quest ion the w rit er applies t he Feminist t heories. This is also
support ed by the background of Chinese cult ure w hich helps the w rit er t o underst and the w om en’s rest rict ion in Chinese culture. Aft er underst anding
t he cult ure, t he w riter w ill t ry t o find the idea on gender equalit y described by t he author of this novel.
The last is about the sociology. Here t he sociological approach w ill be used. By the sociological approach, the writ er show s the sociological aspect s
of t his novel t hey are; social, economic, polit ical, cult ural, science and t echnology, and religious aspect .
D. Finding and Discussion
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