An Analysis of The Feminist Characters in Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening”

Dedi Rahman Nur

doi:10.21070/jees.v2i1.687

Abstract

This research concerns with the analysis of feminist characters in Kate Chopin’s work. The purpose of the research is to describe the feminist characters of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening short stories by analyzing the main female characters as feminist characters and the contribution of the feminist characters to the development of the plot. The research question of this research are: how is the feminist character reflected on Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, and how do the feminist characters affect the development of the plot in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening short stories. The design of the research is a descriptive design. The finding of this research showed that from the characters existed in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, feminist characters is Edna Pontellier. She was considered feminist from her conversation, actions of disregarding patriarchy and social boundaries toward women, an effort to complete self-rights, self-needs, and her inner thought about freedom and self-autonomy. Also, this research showed that Edna Pontellier feminist characters have a contribution to the development of the plot of the stories. Her feminist characteristics and behavior affect to the plot. The feminist characters’ thought and attitude play important in changing the mood of the characters’ action so that making the plot developed

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Women in Kate Chopin’s stories are not content to have their lives molded and shaped into the forms men design; they are not willing to accept traditions and rules which run counter to the innermost drives of their hearts
The data is presented in written text.The primary source of data in this research was Kate Chopin’s novel “The Awakening” short stories, taken from Kate Chopin “The Awakening and Other Stories”, To analyze the data, this research used the flow model analysis proposed by Miles & Huberman (1994:10)
The researcher used investigator triangulation since the researcher needed the judgments from the person she knows their ability to give their perception about feminist characters which the researcher has been analyzed and to judge whether the interpretation made by the researcher is accurate or not

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Women in Kate Chopin’s stories are not content to have their lives molded and shaped into the forms men design; they are not willing to accept traditions and rules which run counter to the innermost drives of their hearts. It promotes a woman’s strength and courage to against for freedom. Trying to gain the female reader’s thought and heart that they have same right as men have, they need to feel the true happiness and freedom rather than just being obedient person with wide limitation. It is a good role, but women are born for that

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