Women’s Struggle between Familial Duty and Personal Growth Of Jo March Character in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women

Dewi, Prisca Ferina Kurnia (2010) Women’s Struggle between Familial Duty and Personal Growth Of Jo March Character in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. Other thesis, Prodi Sastra Inggris Unika Soegijapranata.

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Abstract

Little Women centers on the conflict between two emphases in a young woman’s life which places on her to confront a difficult choice, between her principle or her family. The writer focuses on Jo March, a second daughter in March family. She has a passion to write anything. Jo March is boyish, and has a masculine manner which is in contrast with the description of a young woman’s manner at that time. The writer is interested in her strong efforts to uphold her principles. She always figures herself as a man in her family, while their father is charged into Civil War. As she grows, she begins to take more care of her appearance and adopts more ladylike manner. Yet, she does not sacrifice the sense that she is equal to any man.Being independent women is the main idea of this novel. Therefore the writer uses Helene Cixous theory about Ecriture Feminism and Alfred Adler with his Psychoanalytic theory about Masculine Protest. Little Women is mostly about Jo and her struggle to be good and to improve herself in the world, and such a struggle is believed to represent Louisa’s own struggle with the same issue. Helene Cixous in this case shows the important meaning between sex and gender, where sex is based on biological concept but gender is of psychological concept refering to sexual identity. In addition, Alfred Adler with his theory shows Jo’s masculinity is unique, and it is supported by her strong mindset and talent. Keywords: independent, writing, masculinity.

Item Type:	Thesis (Other)
Subjects:	300 Social Sciences > Women
Divisions:	Faculty of Language and Art > Department of English Literature
Depositing User:	Mrs Ratnasasi Wijayanti
Date Deposited:	30 Oct 2015 04:27
Last Modified:	30 Oct 2015 04:27
URI:	http://repository.unika.ac.id/id/eprint/5390

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