Protagonist’s Struggle in Andrea Hirata’s Novel Dwilogi Padang Bulan
Abstract
This research is aimed at describing protagonist’s struggle in protecting her dignity in economic and educational aspects in the novel Dwilogi Padang Bulan written by Andre Hirata. The novel told about sosial issues related with gender injustice which created a struggle for equality performed by the protagonist, Enong. This research was conducted by applying feminist theory pioneered by Virginia Woolf (1929) since fenimism prioritizes about struggling value of women. This was a library research. Methods used in collecting the data were heuristics and hermeneutics by Palmer. The results showed that protagonist’s struggle in protecting her dignity and herself safe from death, and also being able to show her true identity. The struggle in economic aspect showed that the protagonist was able to fulfil the needs of her family as tin miner. The protagonist afforded to complete the study of her young sisters and to marry her sister to good man. In education aspect, the protagonist’s struggle was that she became the fifth runner up of English course competition.
Keywords: struggle, feminism, injustice, equality
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