The Similarity of Indonesian and British Women’s Views on Marriage in the Novels Alisjahbana’s Layar Terkembang and Austen’s Pride And Prejudice

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10.2991/assehr.k.211225.001How to use a DOI?

Keywords

marriage; household; novel Layar Terkembang; novel Pride and Prejudice

Abstract

This article discusses the views of women related to marriage and household from two different nations, namely Indonesia and Britain. Tuti is an Indonesian woman in the novel Layar Terkembang by Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana and Elizabeth Bennet is a typical British woman in the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. The writer in this article emphasizes the similarity of two fictional characters’ views between Tuti and Elizabeth about marriage and household. The data of this study were collected from the novel Layar Terkembang and Pride and Prejudice. The structuralism approach is used in processing data that emphasizes the intrinsic aspects of literature, including characterizations. Data that has been processed then analyzed through feminist literary criticism and explained descriptively which describe the results of characterization analysis in the two kinds of literature. Based on the results of the analysis, it is concluded that the similarity of Tuti and Elizabeth’s views of marriage are women should not deny marriage as part of the journey of life, married by women should be based on common sense, not because of feelings; women are married because of consciousness not because of men’s appeal. Then, the similarity of their views of marriage are women should be given the freedom to empower themselves so they do not always rely on her husband and ignore them, women should be placed as male partners in households, not as rivals or slaves, wife-husband should love each other and seek to live together with realizing hope.

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AU  - Abbas Abbas
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/12/24
TI  - The Similarity of Indonesian and British Women’s Views on Marriage in the Novels Alisjahbana’s Layar Terkembang and Austen’s Pride And Prejudice
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of Linguistics and Culture (ICLC-2 2021)
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SN  - 2352-5398
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