Oppressions of Women in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

 Abstract thesis:  The Oppressions of Women in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Here the study confines the analysis about oppression of women and their struggle to fight against the oppressions in their life in social aspect of Pride and Prejudice. The data source is from Pride and Prejudice novel by Jane Austen. The researcher uses literary criticism as the research design to conduct the research. Literary research is a research design that directly related to the literary work from perspective of the study. For specific literary criticism, this research uses feminist literary criticism that uses feminist perspective as the point of research design. The feminist literary criticism is a theory based on feminist theory that says that all men and women are equal in many sides.

The data collection technique is reading and understanding from whole story related to the focus of research. It takes some steps, those are selecting and identifying the data related to research problems. Before selecting and identifying the data the researcher read and get understanding the whole story of novel. Data Analysis is started from interpretation and evaluation of literary works.

From this novel, the researcher finds there is much oppression of women. The oppressions of women in this novel are: subordination of woman, domestic education, marriage destination and for psychological oppression: psychological violence. This research is not only discussing about the oppressions of women but also the women’s struggle to fight against the oppression in their life. On this discussion the researcher gives analyzes about the destiny of marriage as the fights for social oppression and fights for psychological oppression by using her body and mind.
writer and researcher: Lutfiah, Rohmatul
years of research: 2008
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The Oppressions of Women in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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