STRUGGLE OF WOMAN IN KATE CHOPIN'S "THE AWAKENING"

AYUNI FIRDA. Struggle of Woman in Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening”, (supervised by Dr. Abidin Pammu, M.A.Dipl.TESOL and Mrs. Rezky Ramadhani, S.S, M.Litt). This research aims to reveal the struggle of woman in the works of Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening” through the characterization of Edna Pontellier towards Feminism within Feminist Literary Criticism Theory. Moreover, this research’s purpose is to elaborate on the point of patriarchal ideology in literature, especially to explore the material forms of social, economic and political discrimination of women. The data is collected from Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening”. This study used qualitative research with content analysis method with the basis of Literary Criticism Theory. The result of this research shows that Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening” as a literary work had portrayed the woman struggle against patriarchy as seen in the characterization of Edna Pontellier. Edna worked hard from being an oppressed house-wife to an independent woman. At the end, she left her marriage and took her own life in the process of seeking her true self.