AN ANALYSIS OF KHATERINE WATSON FEMINISM AWARENESS ON MIKE NEWELL’S FILM “MONA LISA SMILE”

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AN ANALYSIS OF KHATERINE WATSON FEMINISM AWARENESS ON MIKE NEWELL’S FILM “MONA LISA SMILE”

THESIS

By:

UCIK WULANDARI 09360242

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG

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THESIS

By:

UCIK WULANDARI

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THESIS

This thesis is submitted to meet one of the requirements to achieve Sarjana Degree in English Education

By:

UCIK WULANDARI 09360242

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MOTTO AND DEDICATION

MOTTO

"It's impossible to fail, as long as you never quit"

( Les Brown)

“The problem is not the problem; the problem is

your attitude about the problem

( Captain Jack Sparrow)

DEDICATION

I dedicate this thesis especially to:

My beloved Daddy,

My sw eet hear t Mom,

Dek Aziz, Dek Tasya,

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Alhamdulillahi Rabbil ‘Alamin, Wassholatu Wassalamu ‘Ala Rasulillah, after a long tired hardship, finally this thesis could be completed under supports of many hands. The writer would like to express the deepest thank to Allah SWT for blessing her, guidance and mercy in finishing this thesis. Praises are also presented to the beloved prophet, Muhammad SAW.

The researcher would like to express her gratitude to the following individuals from whom the writer received valuable things from the beginning until the last process of this thesis, they are:

1. The writer’s kind first advisor, Dr. Sri Hartiningsih, MM, who has given her support, valuable suggestion, correction and care as well as constructive criticism which lead to useful improvement.

2. The writer’s patient second advisor, Drs. Mas’udi, M.Ed who always gives his advice and suggestion and helpful correction.

3. The writer’s beloved family Bapak, Ibuk, Dek Aziz, Dek Tasya, Akung, Uti, Bulek, Mbak Dyah, Mas Agus and all of my big family for their never ending love, unconditional support, advice, prays, and understanding. She is really proud and glad to be their daughter.

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5. Oppa, Jum and Bundo who give me a meaning of the best friendship, who always give me the best advices when I am getting problems. And all of the writer’s friends in D 2 class, who always give me support; Adi, Amry, Dimas, Nining, I’in, Evika, Anastasia, Tiwi, Putri, Lingga, Taufik, Ardian. Adam, Lina, Yoana and Sumarni. They are always being my heart forever.

6. All members of 16 D Kos; Tya (IT ‘09), Embok (MatKom ‘09), Ipin (IESP ‘09), Bunik (PGSD ‘09), Bude (MatKom ‘09), Yeni (‘09). Thank you for supporting me and always beside me. And for all my friends who cannot be mentioned one by one and who always help the writer in her thesis and everything, may Allah SWT bless you all.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 2.1 Literature ... 6

2.2 Film ... 7

2.3 Kinds of Film... 8

2.4 The Element of Film ... 10

2.4.1 Character, Characteristic, and Characterization ... 10

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2.6 Gender Bias ... 14

2.7 Definition of Feminism ... 18

2.8 Kinds of Feminism ... 18

CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 3.1 Research Design ... 21

3.2 Feminism Criticism Approach ... 22

3.3 Research Object ... 23

3.4 Data Collection ... 23

3.5 Data Analysis ... 24

CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION 4.1 Research Findings ... 25

4.1.1 The kind of feminism awareness done by Khaterine Watson ... 25

4.1.1.1 Progresive Thought ... 26

4.1.1.2 Subversive Movement ... 27

4.1.2 The way how Khaterine Watson does feminism a wareness. ... 28

4.1.2.1 Teaching students with different method ... 28

4.1.2.2 Giving encouragement to the Yale University ... 30

4.1.2.3 Showing some picture to the students ... 31

4.1.3 The impacts of Khaterine Watson’s feminism awareness to the people around her ... 33

4.1.3.1 Being brave in deciding something ... 33

4.1.3.2 Being liberals ... 35

4.2 Discussion ... 36

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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTION

5.1 Conclusion ... 38 5.2 Suggestion ... 39

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CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

This chapter presents background of the study, statement of problems,

purposes of the study, scope and limitation, significance of the study, and also the

definition of key terms.

1.1 Background of the Study

In this modern era, literature has been growing quickly. We cannot run from

the technology that influences our mind and our life. Nowadays, literature outputs are

not only prose, poetry and drama but as a result of modernization and technology

development, people create films or movies by recording events and showing them to

the public. People can get many benefits and valuable things from film. People can

learn many things from film, learning how to struggle to get success, for instance.

Film not only gives education or knowledge but also entertainment.

Scorsese (2002: 394) stated that films are part of our artistic heritage- some

say that film is history. Movies made at a certain time, even minors ones, document

the way of thinking and speaking, the behavior and the style of people’s life of that

society and the popular music, clothes, and language of that time. On the other sides,

film show how people live in the certain places, how people think and act to certain

things in social life, and film shows the real life of the society although sometimes the

story is fiction.

Film is human expression that is reflecting the human thinking, act, behavior,

lifestyle, and anything related to human kind which becomes a story with all the

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from what happened to the past. Therefore, the future life will be much better by

taking the lesson and message shown by the film itself. Film is also media of

communication and education which represents the situation and condition of human

life.

There are many kinds of human life discussion such as healthy, economics,

security, corruption, poverty, fundamental right, feminism, prosperity, educational,

political and etc. In Indonesia feminism has a lack attention from our government.

According to Hammet (1997: 36), feminists view the concept of ideology as a means

of gender representation that is socially constructed. Feminist means that a women or

gender perspective is a variety social phenomenon. Women’s movement on particular

event or phenomena social in the world, like a movement to react some social issues

by doing demonstrating or complaining to the government about the problem. As

women it is look weird if they do some action more than women mostly. According

to Humm (1998, in Silviah 2006), feminism incorporates diverse ideas which share

three major perceptions, namely: gender is a social construction which oppresses

women more than men, patriarchy (dominance of men) shapes this construction and

women experiential knowledge is a basis for a future non sexist society. By this point

above, there are many pressures that women accept from any side of human life.

They oppresses to men business, ask to do some activity that actually it is not allowed

do by women.

Feminism is a topic that becomes popular among all of women in the world;

they talk and promote this action for every woman in the world. In talking about

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is differentiation between men and women characteristics based on a social and

culture scheme and bias is inequality or discrimination which is happened because of

the gender differences. So, gender bias is the bias of role, status of women and men

such as stereotype, subordinated, marginal, burden, and violence (Fakih, 2008).

Gender discrimination between male and female actually lead the society to the

stigma that women are described weak, weepy, dependent and mindless yet men are

always considered as powerful, strong and wise in many aspects. So, feminism cannot

be separated from gender bias that become the major factor existence of feminism

The film entitled “Mona Lisa Smile” by Mike Newell is chosen as the object

study for some reasons. First, this film tells about an energetic and beautiful life style

American people in the beginning of 1953. Second, this film is interesting to be

Khaterine Watson as the main character.

1.2 Statement of Problem

Based on the background of the study above, this research has statement of

problems as follows:

1. What was the kind of Khaterine Watson’s feminism awareness found on Mike

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2. How did Khaterine Watson do feminism awareness on Mike Newell’s film “Mona

Lisa Smile”?

3. What were the impacts of Khaterine Watson’s feminism awareness on Mike

Newell’s film “Mona Lisa Smile” to the people around her?

1.3 The Purpose of Study

The purposes of this research are stated as follows:

1. To identify what was the kind of Khaterine Watson’s feminism awareness found

on Mike Newell’s film “Mona Lisa Smile”.

2. To find how Khaterine Watson did feminism awareness on Mike Newell’s film

“Mona Lisa Smile”.

3. To elaborate what were the impacts of Khaterine Watson’s feminism awareness on

Mike Newell’s film “Mona Lisa Smile” to the people around her.

1.4 Significance of the Study

The results of the study are expected to give contributions for the teachers and

students of English Department. First, by reading the result of this study, the readers

can know and improve their knowledge about feminism in literature. Second, this

research can be used as a reference to the next researchers who are interested in

analyzing film especially related to feminism.

1.5 The Scope and Limitation

The scope of this research is about feminism awareness in “Mona Lisa Smile”

by Mike Newell. It limits only on the kinds of Khaterine Watson’s way to do

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1.6 The Definition of Key Terms

The aim of giving the definition of key term is to help readers understand key

words employed in this research, as follows:

1. An analysis is a descriptive about element that has purpose to comprehend the

relationship between one element and others in supporting the meaning of literary

work. (Sudjiman in Puji Lestari 2011)

2. Feminism is incorporates diverse ideas which share three major perceptions,

namely: gender is a social construction which oppresses women more than men,

patriarchy (dominance of men) shapes this construction and women experiential

knowledge is a basis for a future non sexist society. By this point above, there are

many pressure that women accept from any side of human life (Humm,1998: 194)

3. Awareness is social activity, in that we take cues from those around us which can

influence our awareness and lead to a greater shared awareness. (Heath et al, 2002

in Wiyatami 2006)

So, feminism awareness of concept feminism that women position is lower than

men position and causes many biases in every side of women activity.

4. Mona Lisa Smile is the title of a film by Mike Newell which is an object of the

study.

5. Mike Newell is the direct of the film “Mona Lisa Smile”

6. Khaterine Watson is the main character in “Mona Lisa Smile” a film being