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Feminist Ideas in Film Mona Lisa Smile FEMINIST IDEAS IN FILM MONA LISA SMILE A Thesis Submitted to Letters and Humanities Faculty In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for The Strata One Degree LAELATI CAHYANI NIM. 104026000958 ENGLISH LETTERS DEPARTMENT LETTERS AND HUMANITIES FACULTY STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY “SYARIF HIDAYATULLAH” JAKARTA 2009 FEMINIST IDEAS IN FILM MONA LISA SMILE A Thesis Submitted to Letters and Humanities Faculty In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for The Strata One Degree LAELATI CAHYANI NIM. 104026000958 ENGLISH LETTERS DEPARTMENT LETTERS AND HUMANITIES FACULTY STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY “SYARIF HIDAYATULLAH” JAKARTA 2009 APPROVEMENT FEMINIST IDEAS IN FILM MONA LISA SMILE A Thesis Submitted to Letters and Humanities Faculty In Partial Fulfillment of the RequirementS for The Strata One Degree LAELATI CAHYANI 104026000958 Approved by: Advisor Elve Oktafiyani, M. Hum Nip. 150 317 725 ENGLISH LETTERS DEPARTMENT LETTERS AND HUMANITIES FACULTY STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY “SYARIF HIDAYATULLAH” JAKARTA 2009 LEGALIZATION i ABSTRACT Laelati Cahyani. Feminist Ideas in Film Mona Lisa Smile. Thesis. Jakarta: State Islamic University (UIN) Jakarta, 2009. This analysis aims to know what kind of intimidations experienced by main character and how the main character shows the feminism ideas in her fighting against the intimidations she experienced in Mona Lisa Smile film by analyzing the evidences from the dialogues in the film, her acts, and her statements. To get the feminist value the writer uses Descriptive-Qualitative analysis as the method to analyze the relationship between the main character and feminism theory. In this analysis, the writer finds out that there are many intimidations experienced by the main female character, Katherine Watson. She is a teacher at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, United States. At Wellesley College, the knowledge that most of her students aspire for is a wonderful husband and they do not care of pursuing any kind of professions. She is very surprised about that and she wants to make a change to women at Wellesley College. As a woman and a teacher, she is very concerned with education. She comes to Wellesley with her new perspective. Unfortunately, it makes her gets disrespectful treatments from people around her in Wellesley. However, she takes the intimidation experiences as her motivation to make positive changes at Wellesley College and to open the young women’s minds at Wellesley College. According to liberal feminism, that for equal rights for women within the framework of the liberal state, arguing that the theoretical basis on which this state is built is sound but that the rights and privileges it confers must be extended to women to give them equal citizenship with men. Those things were done by Katherine Watson in Mona Lisa Smile film. In her every class, she tries to encourage her students to create a new perspective. And she uses her art teachings to tell her opinion to her students that they need not to conform to stereotypes of women to become housewives and mother. To finish, it can be concluded that Katherine’s efforts to open the young women’s minds at Wellesley College shows feminist ideas. ii A thesis entitled “Feminist ideas in Film Mona Lisa Smile have been defended before the Letters and Humanities Faculty’s Examination Committee on February 2009. The thesis has already been accepted as a partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Letters Scholar. Jakarta, February 19, 2009 Examination Committee Chair Person, Secretary, Dr. H. M. Farkhan, M.Pd. Drs. A. Saefuddin, M.Pd. NIP. 150 299 480 NIP. 150 261 902 Members: Examiner I Examiner II Dr. Frans Sayogie, M.Pd. Inayatul Chusna, M.Hum NIP.150 299 481 NIP. 150 331 233 iii DECLARATION I hereby declare that this submission is her own work and that, to the best of her knowledge and belief, it contains no material previously published or written by another person nor material which to a substantial extent has been accepted for the award of any other degree or diploma of the university or other institute of higher learning, except where due acknowledgement has been made in the text. Jakarta, February 19, 2009 Laelati Cahyani iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First of all, the writer would like to thanks to Allah SWT, Lord of the universe and the day after. Thank you God for always helping her, and guiding her in every step that she makes and in living her life. Peace and blessing be upon our prophet Muhammad SAW and all of his friends and followers. The writer would like to express her gratitude to her parents. Thank you so much for your financial support, prayers, hope, and all the contributions. And special thanks to her mom. Thank you mom for bringing her into this world and taking care of her patiently and affectionately since the writer was a child. Yo ur advices and rebukes give her strength in living this life. You are her biggest motivator in this world. Thank you for always being there for her. The writer also wants to thank to her brother and sisters for supporting the writer in finishing her thesis. Thank you so much for her brother, Teguh, for picking her up anytime and anywhere, and being so handy; for her sisters, Selly and Nadia, for cheering her up and becoming so patient in listening to all her stories and grievances. The writer cannot fail to mention her advisor Elve Oktafiyani, M. Hum, For her guidance and contribution in finishing this thesis for being patient in giving her advice to finish this thesis. The writer wish to say gratitude to the following persons: 1. Dr. H. Abdul Chair, M.A the Dean of English Letters Department State Islamic University “Syarif Hidayatullah” Jakarta. 2. Dr. H. Muhammad Farkhan M.Pd the head of English Letters Department. 3. Drs. A. Saefuddin, M.Pd. the secretary of English Letters Department. 4. All lecturers of English Letters Department for teaching her during her study at State Islamic University. v 5. Miss Rosida Erowati for guiding and helping her finishes this thesis. Thank you for your time, patience and kindness. Thank you for never getting tired of teaching her and giving her advice. 6. All her best friends: Yanti, for her support, sharing, discussion and friendship for all this time; Nia, Woro, and Velma for her time in sharing and discussion. Darma, Noe, Amel, and Kiki thanks to fill her days with smile and laughter. 7. All her friends in C class that the writer cannot mention one by one. Thank you to fill her college days with smile and laughter. 8. All her friends at UIN Syarif Hidayatullah that the writer cannot mention one by one. Thank you for being so kind to her for all this time. May Allah bless us. Finally, the writer realizes that this thesis is far from being perfect. Accordingly, the writer hopes any suggestion and criticism for this thesis. Jakarta, February 19, 2009 Writer vi TABLE OF CONTENT ABSTRACT .................................................................................................... i APPROVEMENT ........................................................................................... ii LEGALIZATION ........................................................................................... iii DECLARATION ............................................................................................ iv ACKNOWLEDGMENT ................................................................................. v TABLE OF CONTENTS ................................................................................ vii LIST OF APPENDIXES ................................................................................. ix CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION ................................................................... 1 A. Background of the Study ....................................................................... 1 B. Focus of the Research ............................................................................ 4 C. Questions of the Research ..................................................................... 5 D. Significance of the Research .................................................................. 5 E. The Objective of the Research ............................................................... 5 F. Research Methodology .......................................................................... 6 1. Method of the Research.................................................................... 6 2. Data Analysis .................................................................................. 6 3. Research Instrument ........................................................................ 6 4. Analysis Unit ................................................................................... 7 CHAPTER II. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK ........................................ 8 A. Feminism .............................................................................................. 8 B. Feminist Theory .................................................................................... 14 C. History of Feminism .............................................................................. 16 1. First Wave Feminism ....................................................................... 16 2. Second Wave Feminism .................................................................. 17 vii 3. Third Wave Feminism .................................................................... 19 CHAPTER III. RESEARCH FINDINGS ...................................................... 21 A. The intimidations experienced by Katherine Watson related to women role in film Mona Lisa Smile .................................................................
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