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Blurring the Gender Borders of Men and Women,
Queer Theory Analysis on
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

The undergraduate thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for
the degree of Sarjana Pendidikan

Indrajaya Sartono
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
2014
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TABLE OF CONTENT

Cover ………………………………………………………………………... i
Approval page……………………………………………………………….. ii
Publication Agreement Declaration…………………………………………. iii
Copyright Statement…………………………………………………………. iv
Table of Content……………………………………………………………... v
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Abstract……………………………………………………………........ 1

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Introduction ……………………………………………………………. 2

III. Theoretical discussion………………………………………………….. 3
IV. Discussion……………………………………………………………… 12

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Jack………………………………………………………………... 12

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Commodore Norrington…………………………………………... 15

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Elizabeth…………………………………………………………... 17

Conclusion……………………………………………………………… 24

VI. Acknowledgement……………………………………………………… 26
VII. References……………………………………………………………….27

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Blurring the Gender Borders of Men and Women, Queer Theory Analysis on
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Indrajaya Sartono

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ABSTRACT
Analysing Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl using queer theory,

I want to show how movies are actually supporting the diminishing oppression that comes

from the mainstream heterosexual culture towards queer culture. Matching the actions and
images of characters inside the movie with queer’s idea of liminal space in gender discourse,
Sinfield’s counterhegemonic power of queer, and Bulter’s idea of performative gender along
with its fluidity, I found that the movie proved to empower queer from the beginning until the
end.

KEYWORDS: Queer, Gender, Heterosexual, Performativity, Liminal Space, Oppression,
Hegemony, Stereotype, Culture.