Feminist Perspectives of Marriage Reflected in Danielle Stee’s Bittersweet

ABSTRACT

Literature can be seen as a reflection of life. Sometimes we can experience the world through our imagination, though we might never have a chance to do. By reading a novel, we may acquire amusement that will lead us to know perception of beauty and make us sensitive to artistic work in general.

This research is conducted to find out the characters feminist perspective of marriage reflecting in Bittersweet By Danielle Steel and the violence against women in marriage reflected in the Bittersweet. Feminism it self has many field to be discussed however, this research only analyze the relation between feminism perspective and their view about marriage for women.

In this research, the researcher used literary criticism as her research design to conduct the research. Because literary criticism is the only research design that is directly related to the literary works and these researches studied are designed to obtain the information concerning the current status of phenomenon and are directed toward determining of the nature of situation as if in the time of study.

Based on the result of the analysis, the writer finds that actually in Bittersweet there are many scenes that a woman in household still intimidated or pressured by man to stay in domestic area that is home. Woman forbid to work out side as a career woman. Even a woman who had a career journey before married, she has to quit it. From feminism character many characters suggest that
a woman actually still has her right to decide her choice, weather want to continue
her career or not after getting married and many discrimination, violent and suppression against woman occurred in local environment that is home.

From this research, the researcher hopes that the readers can catch the novel’s
message given by the author especially about feminism and the other researcher who focuses on this topic about the feminist perspective can analyze wider and deeper research. This study is very limited and far from the perfection, so that the researcher hopes that the next researcher can give more attention to this topic.