iii ABSTRAK
Skripsi ini berjudul “Oppression on Women as Portrayed in “Celia, A Slave” and “Woman At Point Zero”: A Comparative Literature”. Skripsi ini berisi tentang studi sastra bandingan menggunakan dua novel dari negara yang berbeda dengan motif yang sama, yaitu penindasan pada perempuan. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui bagaimana perempuan dalam dua novel tersebut tertindas dan menemukan kesamaan serta perbedaan terkait masalah ini melalui tingkat dan jenis penindasan tertentu yaitu, penindasan individu, penindasan institusionil dan penindasan sosial. Karakter utama dari masing-masing novel, Celia dan Firdaus mengalami kekerasan fisik, verbal dan mental yang menindas mereka sepanjang hidup mereka. Studi ini juga melihat unsur intrinsik untuk melihat persamaan dan perbedaan yang ditemukan dalam dua novel. Dalam menyelesaikan analisis, penulis menggunakan metode deskriptif kualitatif karena semua data disampaikan dalam bentuk kata-kata dan kalimat. Penulis mengumpulkan data dari berbagai sumber termasuk novel Celia, A Slave oleh Melton A. McLaurin, Woman At Point Zero oleh Nawal el Saadawi, buku, artikel dan jurnal yang berkaitan untuk mendukung analisis. Berdasarkan hasil analisis dapat disimpulkan bahwa kedua novel menunjukkan persamaan dan perbedaan mengenai tingkat dan jenis penindasan. Firdaus dan Celia mengalami penindasan individu oleh orang terdekat mereka. Mereka berjuang melawan penindasan institusionil oleh hukum, pendidikan dan media dari masing-masing negara dan juga penindasan sosial oleh peran .
iv ABSTRACT
This thesis is entitled “Oppression on Women as Portrayed in “Celia, A Slave”
and “Woman At Point Zero”: A Comparative Literature”. This thesis contains a study of comparative literature which involves two novels of different nations with similar motifs, which are women oppression. The purpose of this study is to find out how women in the two novels are oppressed and find the similarities as well as differences regarding the issue in specific levels and types of oppression that are, individual oppression, institutional oppression and social oppression. The respective main characters, Celia and Firdaus experience physical, verbal and mental abuse which oppresses them throughout their lives. The study also involves looking at the intrinsic elements to look at the similarities and differences found in the two novels. In completing the analysis, the writer uses descriptive qualitative method which represents all the data in forms of words and sentences as well as including tables to show the similarities and differences more clearly. The writer collects data from various sources including the novels Celia, A Slave by Melton A. McLaurin, Woman
At Point Zero by Nawal el Saadawi, relevant books, articles and journals to support
the analysis. Based on the analysis it can be found that the novels show similarities and differences regarding the levels and types of oppression. Firdaus and Celia experienced an individual oppression by the people closest to them. They struggle against the institutional oppressiondone by the respective law, education and media of each country and also social oppressionby the social norms and roles.
