Liberal Feminisml

PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
LIBERAL FEMINISM SEEN THROUGH THE MAIN FEMALE

CHARACTER IN EDUCATING RITA MOVIE
AN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS
Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements
For the Degree of the Sarjana Sastra
in English Letters
By
LAUDITA KANANA RIZKI NARESWARI

Student Number: 144214070
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LETTERS

FACULTY OF LETTERS
UNIVERSITAS SANATA DHARMA
YOGYAKARTA
2019
LIBERAL FEMINISM SEEN THROUGH THE MAIN FEMALE

AN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS
Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements
For the Degree of the Sarjana Sastra
in English Letters
By

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LETTERS

FACULTY OF LETTERS
UNIVERSITAS SANATA DHARMA
YOGYAKARTA
2019
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For my parents,
my sister,
Myself,
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First of all, I like to express my gratitude and praise to Allah SWT for the
blessings, love, and generosity given to me while finishing my thesis.
My deepest gratitude to all lecturers in English Letters Sanata Dharma
University, especially Dra. A. B. Sri Mulyani, Ph.D., and Ni Luh Putu
Rosiandani, S.S., M.Hum., for guidance, support and patience which help me in
finishing my thesis.
My support system Naoko Lee Lokal, Korban Bias Wrecker, APIMUN
Staff, Pemuja Goyang Shopee and Nadia Agatha Pramesthi for keep me strong
and happy for the last 5 years. Big thanks to Muhammad Fazlurahman Adiputra
and Masterina Sekar who help me finishing this thesis, without both of you maybe
I am still confused and lost. To my seven heroes, Monsta X, who always make me
happy and laugh in my hard day. Thank you for being my sunshine in my gloomy
day. Last, thank you to my parents who support me unconditionally until I
finished my thesis, also my sister and cats that brighten up my day when I am sad.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
TITTLE PAGE .................................................................................................... ii

APPROVAL PAGE ........................................................................................... iii
ACCEPTANCE PAGE ...................................................................................... iv
STATEMENT OF ORIGINALITY ................................................................... v
LEMBAR PERNYATAAN PERSETUJUAN PUBLIKASI KARYA ILMIAH . vi
MOTTO PAGE ................................................................................................. vii
DEDICATION PAGE ...................................................................................... viii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ............................................................................... ix
TABLE OF CONTENTS ..................................................................................... x
ABSTRACT ....................................................................................................... xii
ABSTRAK ........................................................................................................ xiii
Contents
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION......................................................................... 1
A. Background of the Study .......................................................................... 1
B. Problem Formulation ................................................................................ 4
C. Objectives of the Study ............................................................................. 4
D. Definition of Terms .................................................................................. 5
CHAPTER II REVIEW OF LITERATURE .................................................... 6

A. Review of Related Studies ........................................................................ 6
B. Review of Related Theories ...................................................................... 8
1. Theory of Character and Characterization ............................................ 8
2. Theory of Feminism and Liberal Feminism ....................................... 12
C. Theoretical Framework ........................................................................... 14
CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY .................................................................. 15

A. Object of the Study ................................................................................. 15
B. Approach of the Study ............................................................................ 16
C. Method of the Study................................................................................ 17
CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS................................................................................ 19
A. Characteristics of Rita............................................................................. 19
1. Determined ......................................................................................... 19
2. Rebellious ........................................................................................... 22
3. Smart ................................................................................................... 25
4. Hard-working ...................................................................................... 29
5. Independence ...................................................................................... 31
B. Rita’s Characteristics That Portray Liberal Feminism ............................ 32
1. Rita’s Struggle Towards Education .................................................... 32
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2. Rita’s Characteristic Portrayed Liberal Feminism .............................. 39

CHAPTER V CONCLUSION .......................................................................... 43
REFERENCES .................................................................................................... 45
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ABSTRACT
NARESWARI, LAUDITA KANANA RIZKI (2019). Liberal Feminism Seen

Through The Main Female Character in Educating Rita Movie. Yogyakarta:
Department of English Letters, Faculty of Letters, Sanata Dharma University.
Educating Rita (1983) is a movie directed by Lewis Gilbert, for screenplay
script written by Willy Russel. The story about Rita or Susan a working-class
woman who wants to gets higher education. However, Rita’s husband, Denny,
does not like if she gets an education and he tells her that have a baby is more
important. She has to struggle against her environment. This research is about Rita
who fights for her dream to get the higher education she always dreamed since a
long time and also discovered her true self.
There are two objectives in this research. The first to know Rita’s
characteristics against her environment which is higher education is not important
for someone from working-class. The second is how Rita’s characteristics can
portray the liberal feminism.
The method that is used in this research is a library research. Educating
Rita is the primary source of this research. The secondary sources of this research
are several books, journals, and some internet sites related to this research. In
order to find the answer for two objectives, the researcher uses character and
characterization theory and feminism approach, particularly the liberal feminism
theory.
The result of the research shows two things. The first one shows Rita’s
characteristics that proves what she did is not useless and the importance of seek
her true identity and gets higher education. From the analysis it determines Rita’s
characteristics, rebel, intelligent, hardworking, and independent person. The
second finding is Rita’s characteristics portray liberal feminism. She is a
determined person, a rebel to her family and her husband, hardworking, learn
from zero to get the perfect score she wants to get after a long time of her study.
Rita proves she can get through all, know herself better, and become educated.
Rita also can enjoy herself more after she finds out about her true self.
Keywords: Characterization, Education, Liberal Feminism, True Identity
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ABSTRAK
NARESWARI, LAUDITA KANANA RIZKI (2019). Liberal Feminism Seen

Through The Main Female Character in Educating Rita Movie. Yogyakarta:
Program Studi Sastra Inggris, Fakultas Sastra, Universitas Sanata Dharma.
Educating Rita (1983) adalah sebuah film yang disutradarai oleh Lewis
Gilbert, sedangkan untuk naskahnya ditulis oleh Willy Russel. Film ini
menceritakan tentang Rita atau Susan, wanita yang berasal dari kelas pekerja yang
ingin mendapatkan pendidikan lebih tinggi. Suami Rita yang bernama Denny,
tidak senang jika Rita mendapatkan pendidikan lebih tinggi. Denny mengatakan
kepada Rita, bahwa memiliki anak merupakan hal lebih penting daripada
mendapatkan pendidikan tinggi. Rita harus berjuang untuk melawan lingkungan
hidupnya. Penelitian ini menunjuk kan perjuangan Rita untuk mimpinya
mendapatkan pendidikan lebih tinggi yang selalu dia impikan selama ini dan
meemukan jati diri Rita.
Ada dua objek dalam penelitian ini, yang pertama adalah mengetahui
karakter dari Rita untuk melawan lingkungannya dimana menurut mereka
mendapatkan pendidikan lebih tinggi tidaklah penting untuk seseorang yang
datang dari kelas pekerja. Objek penelitian yang kedua adalah bagaimana karakter
dari seorang Rita dapat menggambarkan feminisme liberal.
Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah penelitian
kepustakaan. Film Educating Rita adalah sumber utama yang digunakan untuk
penelitian ini, lalu sumber pendukung lainnya adalah buku-buku, beberapa jurnal,
dan data dari situs internet yang mendukung penelitian ini. Peneliti menggunakan
teori karakter dan karakterisasi, dan menggunakan pendekatan feminisme,
khususnya liberal feminisme.
Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjuk kan dua hal, yang pertama adalah
karateristik dari Rita. Ia menunjuk kan bahwa apa yang ia lakukan tidak sia-sia
untuk mencari jati dirinya dan mendapatkan pendidikan lebih tinggi. Dari analisis
yang didapatkan karakteristik dari Rita adalah memantapkan diri, pemberontak,
mempunyai kecerdasan akan tetapi tidak didukung oleh pendidikan yang baik,
pekerja keras, dan seorang yang mandiri. Hal kedua adalah, bagaimana
karakteristik Rita dapat menggambarkan feminisme liberal. Ia memantapkan diri
untuk segala hal, menjadi pemberontak di keluarganya, bekerja keras untuk
pendidikannya, seseorang yang mandiri, dan ia berusaha dari nol untuk
mendapatkan nilai sempurna yang ia inginkan selama ini setelah ia belajar. Rita
membuktikan bahwa ia bias melewati segala rintangan, mengetahui banyak
mengenai dirinya sendiri, dan menjadikannya seseorang yang terpelajar. Rita juga
lebih menikmati dirinya sendiri setelah ia menemukan jati diri.
Kata Kunci: Karakterisasi, Pendidikan, Feminisme Liberal, Jati Diri
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background of the Study
Equality, freedom, and self-discovery are the right of every human in this
world, and women have the right to for it. The right to know their selves and to be
free for some people, in this case are women, cannot gain. The chance to get the
same opportunity like men for women still cannot get. As stated by Elizabeth
Jameson and Susan Hodge Armitage in Writing the Range: Race, Class, and
Culture in Women’s West, “they said in 1930 the ideologies used to the family
were typically patriarchal” (1994, p. 437).
Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social
movements which share a common goal that are to define, to establish, and to
achieve political, economic, personal, and social equality of sexes. This includes
seeking to establish educational and professional opportunities for women that are
equal to such opportunities for men. Liberal feminism focuses on equality of men
and women.
Equality about women and men to get the same education background is
an issue from a long time ago. Until now, even though some people know the
equality for women to get knowledge and opportunity like men in working fields,
they think women just stay at home, do house chores, and give birth.
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Those things mentioned before are the problems that women have to deal
with, to get the same opportunity like men. Therefore, this feminism movement
appears to fight for women right.
Liberal feminism perspective thought men and women should have the
same opportunity like in education field. Education is not only for men but also
for women. They have none freedom to decide or to speak the idea or thought.
Stated in Wollstonecraft, Feminist Thoughts, “because something not permitted
them to make their own decision, they lacked liberty” (2009, p. 13). It means that
women cannot express what they feel, they also cannot express toward what they
want because the lack of liberty.
In consequence, the feminist struggle for equal rights and opportunities for
women. Women may also choose her live; about what she wanted, about how she
live, and how she express herself.
Mary Wollstonecraft’s, A Vindication of The Rights of Woman, states that
Women should be able to enter the world of medicine and politics.

Women's interest in dressing up and looking pretty is primarily a case of
nurture, rather than nature. If women are shamed for having sex before
marriage, then maybe men should be as well. Women should speak their
minds without worrying about being perceived as "masculine" or other
undesirable traits (1975, p. 2).
Meaning to say women have to get educated to enter the world of work,
same opportunity like men that also get a job and education. Women also have
freedom to express what they want to do, what they like, without worried about
people around them. They have to speak up about themselves with no oppression
from society, for example being educated even though they are from working-
class. They still have the opportunity like other women and men to get an
education in their life.
Meanwhile, in Virginia Woolf A Room of One’s Own stated,” Women
must have money and a room of her own to write fiction” (1929, p. 1). With the
statement of Virginia Woolf in A Room of One’s Own, researcher can see it that
women have their own thought and willingness to discover herself when they
want to get educated or be independent and free to speak about what in their mind.
In Educating Rita, Rita’s or Susan’s problem is her husband. His name is
Denny. Denny does not want her to get an education. For him, gets higher
education and knowledge for working-class person, in this case women, is a waste
of time. Denny just wants Rita to do what she works right now, stop dreaming
about silly things and give birth. Meanwhile, Rita wants to discover about her
true self. To reach that, she joins tutorial class in a university and takes literature
as her focus.
Educating Rita movie reflects the liberal feminism, the struggle of a
woman named Rita to achieve her dream about self-discovery and the equality to
get an education just like other people even though she comes from working-class
people. This movie also reflects the equality between men and women, they have
the same opportunity to get an education.

Educating Rita is a movie that inspires women and makes people open
their eyes toward same opportunity for working-class women to get educated.
Women also have the opportunity to study and learn things they want with no
interfere from other people or even oppression from their own husband.
The story in this movie could inspire people. From this movie, people
think women can be independent when they have the chance to be independent. It
uses liberal feminism values analyzed in this study. It can be seen through the
main female character in movie
B. Problem Formulation
Based on the background of the study above, the formulation problem for
Educating Rita movie in this research are:
1. What are Rita’s characteristics in Educating Rita?
2. How are Rita’s characteristics portrayed in liberal feminism?
C. Objectives of the Study
Based on the background of the study and according to problem
formulation to analyze this research has two aims. The first is to identify the
characteristic of Rita who is the main female character in Educating Rita. The
second is to find out how Rita’s characteristics portrayed in liberal feminism.

D. Definition of Terms
The researcher uses terms in this study to avoid misunderstanding and give
a clear explanation. The first term is Characteristics. Characteristics are features
and traits that form the individual of a person.
Liberal feminism is the second term. According to Maggie Humm liberal
feminism is “theory of individual freedom for women” (1995, p. 105). Tong
stated in Feminist Thoughts, “Our entire system of individual rights is justified
because these rights constitute a framework within which we can all choose our
own separate goods, provided we do not deprive others of theirs.” (2009, p. 11).
Therefore, the aim of liberal feminism is equality and they can free to choose what
they want.
CHAPTER II
REVIEW OF LITERATURE
This chapter contains three parts, the first part is the review of related
studies, the second part is the review of related theories, and the third part is the
theoretical framework.
A. Review of Related Studies
There are some studies related with this research. There are three related
studies the researcher pick in this part, the first is from Usa Padgate’s essay
Educating Rita: Society, Education and Self-Reflection that focuses on people
around Rita and their view about Rita’s decision to take literature as her study
even though it does not fit with her background that is working-class woman. In
Usa essay explains, Rita, as a working-class hairdresser, represents the
professionally trained mass. Her subsequent decision on a higher education and
eventual academic achievement stand for individual opportunities accessible to
throughout liberal education.
She is an example of how one mind can improve upon and of the infinite
possibility of human learning ability. If in the end the individual ‘decides’ against
his education as Frank has done, it is because they have a choice on which to
decide. This is what it is worth–liberation from their own disbelief in their self-
worth and a chance to choose what is best for them
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The second is from Gender Inequality in Education: accounting for
women's subordination, stated on the study that,
These theories take social class as the main variable of interest and fail to
deal with gender as a major social construct. Feminist perspectives
coincide in considering women as the main referent, but they are
considerably in the role they attribute to the State, the family, and the
school system in the process of change to attain women's equality (1990,
p. 150).
It means focus on gender tenets of liberal, radical, and socialist feminist
perspectives to account for differential gender outcomes in terms of educational
access, attainment, and field of study choices. Classical theories about inequalities
in education are gender-blind and thus of limited usefulness in explaining the
persistent disadvantages of women's education.
The third is from Carlita Dewi’s “The Ideas of Liberal Feminism
Revealed through Christina’s Vahala’s Characters in Coelho’s The Valkyries”. In
her study Dewi explained about liberal feminism, and stated “The idea of liberal
feminism appears since it deals with women’s effort to get quality in all aspects in
life, such as education, human rights, work fields, etc.” (Dewi, 2009, p. 2). It
means that liberal feminism relates to gender equality in which women have a
right to look for their self-discovery about her-self and their freedom to choose
their own life with no interfere from other people. Women have freedom to
choose their option and decision of what they own on their own hand and thought.
In Dewi’s study, she tries to find out liberal feminism through the characters in
The Valkyries, Cristina and Vahala.

Those three studies above are talk about liberal feminism, the three studies
have the same topic. It is about liberal feminism, and talks about gender equality
about women who wants to get education and have freedom to express what they
want, especially in works and education field. One study, have the same topic but
different object, the contrast from this study is that the focus of this study relates
to the liberal feminism values through the main female role, meanwhile the other
two studies aims at women freedom in education field. Therefore, this study will
emphasize liberal feminism values through the characteristic of the main female
role in the movie.
B. Review of Related Theories
This part explains the two theories are uses to find the answer to two
problem formulation. The first is the theory of characterization to analyze the
main female character, and the second is the theory of liberal feminism to find out
the values portrayed through the main female character.
1. Theory of Character and Characterization
Characterization is the way to identify a character. Characterization is the
method that it constructs characters for the audience member. The narrator can
explicitly provide character information or can provide information that implies
thing about a character. Characters are fictive or real persons that think act or are
acted upon in a narrative.

According to Murphy, characterization explains about how the writer tells
the readers about personalities, thought, characters, and behaviors of the people or
characters they write in the story. In Harmon and Haloman also stated that,
“characterization is the representation of characters’ action in in the story,
therefore the readers could understand what the story tells about by analyzing
through the character of the story” (2009, p. 95).
Christopher Russell Reaske in his book says that speak to other characters
also the way to acknowledge the character’s personality. It can see the
characterization of a character through its speech with another character in the
dialogue. Joseph M. Boggs and Dennis W. Petrie (2008, pp. 59-67) stated, there
are eight ways to see the characterization in a movie, there are:
a. Characterization through Appearance
When the characters appears on the screen, the audience can make a
certain assumption about the characters based on their facial features, dress,
physical build, mannerism and the way they move. The characters first visual
impression might make the audience mistaken as the stories goes on, but this is
important for the characters established (2008, p. 61).

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b. Characterization through Dialogue
It can reveal characters true thoughts, attitudes, and emotions in a certain
way through word choice, the stress, pitch, and a pause pattern of the way when
they speak. Actors’ use of grammar, sentence structure, vocabulary, and particular
dialects reveals their characters social and economic status, education background,
and mental. Not only to what it say but also how it said (2008, p. 60).
c. Characterization through External Action
Appearance is an important element of the character, but it often makes the
audience misleading. The best reflection of character is a person’s action and the
way the characters in a movie act and how they choose to act can reflect their
character (2008, p. 62).
d. Characterization through Internal Action
An inner world action that remains unseen and unheard by even the most
careful observer or listener. Inner action occurs within characters’ minds and
emotions consist of secret, unspoken thoughts, daydreams, aspiration, memories,
fears, and fantasies. People’s hopes, dreams, and aspirations can be as important
to an understanding of their character as any real achievement, and Their
insecurities and fears can be more terrible to them than any catastrophic failure.
The obvious way that the filmmaker reveals inner reality is by taking the
audiences visually or aurally into the character’s mind (2008, p. 62-63).

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e. Characterization through Reactions of Other Characters
The way other characters view a person often serves as an excellent means
of characterization. A great deal information about a character sometimes already
provided through such means before the character first appears on the screen
(2008, p. 64).
f. Characterization through Contrast: Dramatic Foils
One of the most effective techniques of characterization is the use of foils-
contrasting characters whose behavior, attitudes, opinions, lifestyle, physical
appearance, and so on are the opposite of those of the main characters. The effect
is similar to achieved by putting black and white together (2008, p. 64).
g. Characterization through Caricature and Leitmotif
In order to fetch a character quickly and deeply in our minds and
memories, actors often exaggerate or distort one or more dominant features or
personality traits. This device called caricature. Leitmotif is the repetition of
single action, phrase, or idea by character until it becomes almost trademark or
theme song for that character (2008, p. 66).

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h. Characterization through Choice of Name
One important method of characterization is the use of names possessing
appropriate qualities of sound, meaning, or connotation. This technique known as
name typing. A screenwriter usually thinks out his or her characters’ names very
carefully (2008, p. 66).
2. Theory of Feminism and Liberal Feminism
According to Bell Hooks, feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression.
Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that
permeates Western culture on various levels as well as a commitment to
reorganize society so that the self-development of people can take precedence
over imperialism, economic expansion, and material desires. A commitment to
feminism so defined would demand that each individual participant acquire a
critical political consciousness based on ideas and beliefs. Feminism is the
struggle to end sexist oppression. Its aim is not to benefit solely any specific
group of women, any particular race or class of women. It does not privilege
women over men.
Liberal feminism focuses on women’s ability to maintain their equality
through their own actions and choices, emphasizing that women also equal to
men. Women have the same freedom as men. They can do everything that men
also do without worrying about their own. A just society is a society that allows
individuals to exercise their freedom and fulfill themselves. Emphasis on equality
of opportunity: all persons deserve an equal chance to develop their rational and
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moral capacities so they can achieve what they want. The society has the false
belief that women are by nature less intellectual and physically capable than men.
It excludes women from many opportunities and the true potential of women not
filled.
Liberal feminists argue that women share the same rational human nature
men do and given the same educational opportunities and civil rights as men. The
goal of women’s liberation is freeing women from oppressive gender roles: sexual
and gender equality. Liberal feminism lead to advances in the economic sphere, in
equal of opportunity and in civil rights.
Tong stated, “Our entire system of individual rights is justify because
these rights constitute a framework within which we can all choose our own
separate goods, provided we do not deprive others of theirs.” (2009, p. 11). It
means people have their own right to choose what they want with no intervention
from others. They can choose anything they want. Like freedom to choose an
education they wanted to take, and other people has none right to stop what the
other people wanted to take. According to Tong (2009), there are some feminism
labels. They are liberal, radical, Marxist/socialist, psychoanalytic, care-focused,
multicultural/global/colonial, ecofeminism, and postmodern feminism (p. 1).

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C. Theoretical Framework
This thesis analyzes The Liberal Feminism Seen through The Main
Female Character in Educating Rita Movie. The thesis focuses on Rita’s
experience to struggle for her education equality. The reviews for this study are
get from some sources either printed and internet sources uses to support the
analysis of this study.
To analyzed the liberal feminism through the main female character in
Educating Rita, first problem formulation solve uses the theory of character and
characterizations. It analyzes thought, characters, and behaviors of the people or
characters appear in the movie. The researcher can see character personality
through the way the character speaks towards other character. The second
problem formulation solve uses the theory of liberal feminism to analyze the
liberal feminism that is seen through the main female character of Educating Rita
movie.
CHAPTER III
METHODOLOGY
A. Object of the Study
The object of this study is a movie entitled Educating Rita which was
directed by Lewis Gilbert. For its screenplay and drama script, Willy Russell
wrote it. They voted the screenplay as ‘Best Comedy of the Year’ when
performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1980. In 1983 it rise to be the
fourth most popular play on the British theaters. In the same year it also released
the movie with same title. The duration of the movie is one hour and fifty
minutes. The movie is popular, won BAFTA: Best Film Award and Academy
Award nominations, proved its appeal and popularity like the screenplay.
In summary, this movie is about a woman named Rita. She is married,
childless, and not satisfied with life she has. Born and grow up in working-class
environment, she feels the burden by limited choice in her life. The only thing she
can do is seek an education and try to fix her social status through it. Then she
enrolls at Open University and take a literature course with the hope can get self-
discovery about the things she wanted to do before her husband forced her to have
a baby. Her husband, Denny disapproves of her decision to achieve education in
her life. Denny burns her books after he finds out she takes pregnancy control pill.
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After Denny finds out that Rita insists to pursue her dream to get higher
education finally Rita and Denny get divorce and starts a new life by get an
education. Rita learns literature with her professor, Frank, who also leads her
through her self-discovery. In the end of the movie, Rita achieves what she
pursues and can acknowledge the self-discovery she looks for. Now, she gets
educated and now has her own choice.
B. Approach of the Study
This study focuses on the equality and freedom for women. Women also
can pursue their dream and express their freedom about what they want to do in
their lives, even they come from the working-class people. This study uses
feminist approach in analyze and finds out the answers to the problem. Jo
Freeman, in Women: a Feminist Perspective (1975, p. 39)., states “All human
beings, including women, should enjoy the right they have as human beings”.
Women have freedom of argument that maintains them free to choose It means
that human being including woman may express what they feel, they may also
enjoy freedom, and the right to do what they wanted.
One of the feminism theories, liberal feminism deals with gender equality.
Gender equality discusses how women should have the same opportunity as men,
for instance, in working field and studying field. They even discuss their right to
be free in gender equality. In liberal feminism perspective, women are not higher
than men but they are equal.

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This research uses feminist approach to analyze and then find out the
values of liberal feminism on the main female character of the movie. This
approach is suitable to analyze the movie because in the movie, it shows how the
main female character struggles about self-discovery and gets an education.
However, Rita’s husband does not allow her to reach her goal and asks her to have
children instead. The study is focuses on liberal feminism. In which the female
main character reflects liberal feminism through her characterization since she
experiences the freedom and equality in her life.
C. Method of the Study
This research uses library research as it method to analyze Educating Rita.
This method aims to find out all the reliable theories from books or online sources
useful to this study. There are two kinds of sources that researcher needs in this
study, these two kinds of sources are primary and secondary sources. The primary
source of this study is the movie entitled Educating Rita, and then the secondary
sources of this study are from some books, journals, some references, and some
internet sources that support this research.
There are several steps that used to analyze this movie. The first step to
analyze is watching the movie in order to gain understanding about the story. The
Second step is re-watching the movie to know Rita’s action and her life
experiences in the story by taking notes and marking the important things related
to feminism in the movie that would be helpful in conducting this study.

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The third step is finds out the theories needed in analyze the movie in
order to get the answer to the problem formulation. The first problem formulation
uses the theory of characterization and the second problem formulation uses the
theory of feminism focused on liberal feminism in which uses the theory to
analyze the liberal feminism through main female character in the movie.
The last step is to make a conclusion after the researcher answers the two
problem formulations. The researcher makes the conclusion based on the analysis
found in the research on this study.

CHAPTER IV
ANALYSIS
This section is the analysis and the answer to the problem formulation that
stated in the first chapter. The first part discussed Rita’s characteristics in
Educating Rita. The second part discussed liberal feminism seen through the main
character of Educating Rita. The analysis focuses on the main character of this
movie, Educating Rita (1983), Rita.
A. Characteristics of Rita
In this part the researcher analyzes the first problem formulation. In Joseph
M. Boggs and Dennis W. Petrie theory, there are eight ways to identify
characterization from the movie. They are characterization through appearance,
dialogue, external action, internal action, reactions of other characters, contrast:
dramatic foils, caricature and leitmotif and through choice of name (2008, pp. 59-
67). In this analysis, the researcher uses Joseph M. Boggs and Dennis W. Petrie
theory to analyze Rita’s characteristics.
1. Determined
In the movie, Rita first appearance in scene (0:04:05-0:04:35), the
audience can see Rita’s hesitation to enter the university entrance. She looks
around her surrounding while walking through the tunnel that leads inside the
university. The audience can see that Rita is not familiar with university’s
environment.
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Rita’s hesitation in entering the university (ER, 1983: 0:04:05-0:04:35)
In this scene the researcher finds out Rita is determined to meet Dr.
Bryant, use characterization theory by Boggs and James W. Petrie the researcher
can find characterization through appearance in this scene. In the movie, Rita
hesitates to enter the university but then she decided to step on and walk through
university entrance and the journey of Rita to reveal her true identity begins. Rita
applies tutorial class that the university offers. She walks through the tunnel until
she reaches the university yard. It confuses her because she does not know where
Dr. Bryant room is. Rita wants to ask the students that passing by and to the
students who have a conversation around university yard. However, she hesitates
to do it until she finds a guard. She asks him and gets Dr. Bryant’s room location.
Rita finally meets Dr. Bryant, they have a conversation. Dr. Bryant asks
her to call him Frank instead of Dr. Bryant and he asks Rita why she applies for
the tutor class.

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FRANK: Tell me, what made you suddenly decided to do this?

RITA : It’s not sudden. I’ve been realizing for ages that I am out of
step. I am 26, I should’ve had a baby by now. Everyone
expects it. But I mean, I don’t want a baby yet. No. I wanna
discover meself first. (Russell, 1983, p. 5)
Based on Boggs and Petrie’s theory about characterization the dialogue
above shows Rita’s determination by hold herself for have a baby and choose to
discover her-self first even though her environment expects her to have a child.
The researcher finds about Rita’s determination by the dialogue above when she
speaks to Frank about why she suddenly decides to take tutor class.
However, Frank rejects Rita. He asks her to find another tutor who is more
suitable for her because he thinks he does not deserve to teach a person like Rita
who is curious to find herself and learns about literature. Frank thinks he is too
horrible to teach her.
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At (0:12:14) , the audience can see that Rita leave Frank room because of
his rejection to tutor her but then she wait for him until he come out from his
room and Rita persuades Frank to accept and tutor her instead.
2. Rebellious
In the earlier scene (0:12:45), Rita supposed to leave Frank room and get
another tutor. However, Rita insists to wait Frank until he leaves his room. Rita
asks him and persuades to be her tutor. Rita thinks Frank is the only tutor who
understands her character and educates her well.
Rita waiting for Frank (ER, 1983: 0:12:45)

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RITA : I don't want another one.

FRANK: For God's sake, woman!
RITA : But you're my tutor!
FRANK: I told you, I do not want to do it. Why pick on me?
RITA : Because you're a crazy mad piss artist who wants to throw his
students through the window. I like ya! Don't you recognize a
compliment? And when I come next week I'll cut your hair.
FRANK: You will not be coming here next week.
RITA : I will be, and you'll be getting a haircut.
FRANK: I will not.
RITA : You wanna walk round looking like that?
FRANK: Like what?
RITA : Like a geriatric hippy. See ya next week. (Russell, 1983, p. 8)
In this conversation, Rita insists to take tutor class with Frank even though
he tell her that he does not want to tutor Rita because there is another tutor that is
more capable than him. The researcher analyze this dialogue uses Boggs and
Petrie’s theory of characterization through dialogue and characterization through
external action, the researcher finds that through this dialogue and the way Rita
act and disobey Frank to get another tutor, Rita characteristic is rebellious.
Another rebellious action the researcher finds is when Rita supposed to
have a baby at her age. Denny does not know Rita secretly takes the pregnancy
pills in order to make her not pregnant. In scene (0:23:58), Rita lies to her husband.
Rita says already not consume the pill since December, but the fact she consumes
the pills in order to prevent her from have a baby. Use the theory of
characterization through external action, the researcher finds another proof of
Rita’s rebellion by her act that hide pregnancy control pills and lie to Denny about
her that stop consume the pills from December.

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Rita’s taking pregnancy control pill secretly (ER, 1983: 0:23:58)
On the scene where Rita’s sister gets married, her father asks Rita about
her pregnancy because Rita and Denny have married for six years but they still do
not have a child. Meanwhile, Rita’s sister is already pregnant even before she gets
married.
RITA’S FATHER: Well...that's the last of you lot off me hands.

Mind you, I don't know why some of you
bother getting bloody married.
RITA : What's that supposed to mean?
RITA’S FATHER: You're still not pregnant. (Russell, 1983, p. 25)
In the scene above, the researcher find that Rita’s Father points out about
Rita’s pregnancy. Rita and Denny supposes to have a baby long time ago but she
refuses, because Rita does not want to have a baby and wants to get education
first. Based on Boggs and Petrie’s theory of characterization the researcher finds
another proof of Rita’s rebellion through other characters view, in this case is
Rita’s father.
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Rita’s father questioning her pregnancy (ER, 1983: 0:50:28)
3. Smart
As the researcher finds, Rita grows up in working-class society that
according to them get higher education for women is useless, because in the end
they have to be a housewife and have children. When Rita wants to discover her
true identity, her family and husband look down at her dream, but Rita herself
does not want to have a baby and insists to seek her true identity first. It is an
important matter to her now.
In the movie, the researcher finds that Rita is a smart, however she lacks
on her education. In the earlier scene (0:05:47-0:06:48) when Rita meets Frank
from the first time in Frank room, based on Boggs and Petrie’s theory, Rita lack
of education is proof through her appearance by the way she walks around the
room. Rita supposes to talk and behave politely to Frank since he is a lecturer.
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After she gets tutorial class from Frank, the researcher sees Rita
development in complete her essay and actually has great intelligence.
Rita’s claim about her right way on doing her essay (ER, 1983: 0:29:24)
In this scene (0:29:24), Frank asks Rita to write an essay about Peer Gynt
and this is her first task on her tutoring class with Frank, because she is
uneducated when she is doing her first task, Rita writes a short essay. Frank thinks
it is not considered as an essay because it is too short. Rita’s work on that essay is
on point but not specific according to Frank. Frank asks her to revise the work and
Rita revises the work even though it is still not perfect.
On scene (0:05:30) Rita visits Frank, she wants to discuss her essay and
Frank told Rita that her essay is getting better but then according to Rita her essay
is not good enough. She burns the essay and starts to write another that is more
acceptable than the previous one, and then she submits it to Frank. After a few
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She hesitates because the tutor in her summer school might be not like Frank who
accepts her personality. Frank persuades her to go.
Rita : What if they realize how thick I am?

Frank: They won’t because you’re not. Rita my dear, you can do it
now. Write the kind of essay you've begun to write and you'll have nothing
to fear. (Russell, 1983, p. 28)
Rita attends the summer school and she get a lot of education about
literature there. She meets a professor who wants to teach her about American
poets because she says she does not know about it. The professor is happy to tell
Rita about American poets.
A professor taught Rita America poetry (ER, 1983: 0:59:08)
Rita even can ask a question in the class. She asks about Chekov and they
ends up talk about Chekov in a week. It makes her know Chekov’s work more
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Rita ask about Chekov in her summer school class (ER, 1983: 1:00:09)
Rita even settles arguments when a bunch of students discussion in a bistro
where Rita work later on. They are talking about Shaw who wrote Saint Joan and
discussed whether Shaw wrote it in 1926 or 1936. Rita hears about that while she
is asked someone’s order. Then, she settles an argument and explains to them that
Shaw wrote Saint Joan in 1923 but the first production is in 1924 at New Theater
London. Rita surprises the students there because they do not know that a
working-class person know about literary works.
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It turns out that the students are from the university where she gets tutor
class. They ask Rita to settle their arguments about a Lawrence’s early work. The
researcher finds that the students even ask her to settle an argument about a
literary work with her in it. It proves that Rita’s education is getting better and she
gets closer to what she wants, that is to get a proper education. Use the theory of
characterization by Boggs and Petrie, the researcher finds proof about Rita’s
intelligence through her external action, dialogue, and reactions of other
characters with the lecturer and students that want her to settle their arguments.
Rita settles argument among students in a university (ER, 1983: 1:09:50)
4. Hard-working
Rita is a hardworking women, the researcher can find it through how Rita
completes her essay even though her husband annoys her and does not like her to
write in their house. She is even still do the essay in her work place.
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Rita : Yeah, well, that’s all I could do in the time. We’ve been dead
busy in the shop.
Frank: You write your essay at work?
Rita : Yes. Denny doesn’t like me to doing this. He gets narked if I
work at home and I can’t be bothered arguing with him. (Russell, 1983, p.
17)
Frank tells to Rita that she needs to fix her essay. She does it right away
and fixes the essay like Frank tells to her. There is a scene where Denny asks her
if she wants to go to bed. She refuses and tells him she go to bed later after
finishes the task. There is also another scene that Rita runs to university just to tell
Frank about Macbeth. She says she comes to a play last night. Rita watches it and
gets captivated by the play. Rita even buys Macbeth book to understand the play
more.
Rita finds out that Macbeth is a tragedy (ER, 1983: 0:38:24)
In this scene, the researcher can find about Rita’s willingness to
understand what Frank teaches to her and know more detail about literature. She
is a hardworking person who wants to learn anything and achieve the goal to
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5. Independent
After Rita gets divorced from her husband, she moves to her mother flat
for a moment. After her summer school finds a flat she shares with a woman.
When Frank picks her up at the train station and gets Rita to her new flat, it
worries him if Rita’s flat mate is not a good person. Frank offers a help to carry
her belongings and accompany her to meet the new flat mate, however Rita says
she is fine and tell Frank that they will meet again at the tutor class. At first Frank
doubt and ask Rita again, but then she insists him to leave and tells Frank that
everything is fine.
Frank hesitate to leave Rita alone at her new flat (ER, 1983: 1:03:43)
After Rita enters the flat she knows that she shares the flat with a woman
who works at a bistro. Her name is Trish. Trish works at a bistro of her friend and
she can support her living cost by works there. Trish asks Rita about her job, at
the moment Rita has already resigned from her job as a hairdresser and still does
not know where to work. Finally, Rita works at the bistro where Trish also works.
After all things that Rita through, from divorce and move to her mother flat, and
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then resign from her work as hairdresser, the researcher find Rita is an
independent character through external action.
Rita is working at a bistro of Trish’s friend (ER, 1983: 1:08:49)
B. Liberal Feminism Seen Through The Main Female Character
In the second part of this thesis the researcher analyze the second problem
formulation which is how Rita’s characteristic can portray liberal feminism. The
researcher focuses on Rita’s characteristics, that already explained in the previous
part, and uses the theory of liberal feminism to complete analyze the second part
of this thesis.
1. Rita’s Struggle Towards Education
Liberal feminism means that women and men have equality. It also counts
the equality to get a higher education. In this movie, a character named Susan or
Rita wants to find her true identity starts from getting higher education status. She
thinks her journey to find her true identity starts when she gets education she
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wants. With Rita’s courage and high determination, she applies a tutorial class to
get her education. Even though she meets with Frank once a week, she always
comes to the tutorial class.
As the audience knows that Rita’s desire to get higher education is
restricted by her family and husband because she is from working-class person.
As the researcher see in Rita’s environment, getting higher education is a
ridiculous thing. Her family and husband think women should just stay at home,
give a birth and take care of household tasks. In her age reaching twenty six and
her status as a married woman who have been married for six years, she supposed
to have a baby. Rita is oppressed by her environment especially her father and
husband that against dream. However, Rita, as she says to Frank, wants to
discover herself first and rejects to have a baby until she find her true self.
Rita’s desire and determine to get higher education as the researcher finds
is very strong. She even lies to Denny that she stops consuming the pregnancy
control pill for six months ago but the fact is that she still consumes it. At the end,
Denny finds out where Rita puts the pregnancy control pill. He is furious that Rita
lies to him about the pregnancy control pill. Rita already explains that she wants
to discover herself first. However, her husband just keeps silent. He grabs Rita’s
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Denny finds out Rita pregnancy control pill and burns her books (ER, 1983: 0:31:58-
0:32:38)
In this scene, the researcher finds that Denny does not like Rita to
persuade her dream to become an educated person and asks her to have a baby
instead. The scene (0:29:03) is another proof that Denny does not like Rita to get a
higher education. Rita says Denny is angry. Rita is too lazy to argue with him, so
Rita has to do her essay at her work place. Also in the scene (0:50:38-0:51:29),
Rita has an argument with her father about her pregnancy, age, and her status as a
married woman. Rita’s father even says sorry to Denny because of her daughter.
He says if Rita were his wife, he would drown her. As the researcher find Rita is
not comfortable with what her father says to her. She returns her father’s words by
saying she would rather drown herself if she were his father’s wife.
However, Denny supports Rita’s father. He even says she insulted her own
father. From the scene above, the researcher finds that Rita’s family still believes
that women should have a baby instead get a higher education. For them, a higher
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Tong states “liberal feminists wish to free women from oppressive gender
roles-that is from those roles used as an excuse or justifications for giving women
lesser place, or no place at all, in the academy, the forum and the marketplace,”
(2009, p. 34). Rita has a right to get a higher education. She deserves to find her
true self even though she is from working-class person.
Denny defends Rita’s father (ER, 1983: 0:51:29)
Rita’s rebellion and her determination to find herself by get higher
education lead her to divorce from Denny. At the wedding party of Rita’s little
sister, Rita and Denny dance together and talk about their future. Danny gives her
a choice whether she stops to come to tutor and take the pregnancy control pill or
they are divorce.
Denny: It’s dead easy Susan (Rita), you stop going to that university and
you stop taking the pill or you’re out.
Rita : Why?
Denny: You know why.
Rita : I don’t know Denny. All I’m doing is getting an education.
That’s all, just try to learn. And I love it. It’s not easy, I get it wrong some
time, I’m laughed at half the time, but I love it because it makes me feel
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as though I’m in the land of living.

All you try and do is put a rope around me neck and tie to the ground.
(Russell, 1983, p. 26)
From the conversation above, Denny does not like it if Rita keeps going to
pursue her education and he demands a child from Rita. The fact is that Rita
enjoys getting education and says to Denny that she does not want to leave.
Choosing the education makes Denny left her at the party. Rita still loves Denny.
However, she gets from him is she cannot get any freedom to choose what she
wants and Denny does not support her.
Denny leaves Rita at her sister wedding party (ER, 1983: 0:53:11)
In the other side, Frank, who rejects to teach Rita about literature at first
support her to get education. After he teaches Rita how to do her essay and sees
how she determines herself to get an education to find her identity, Frank sees a
potential from Rita. He asks Rita to join his class when she comes across from her
work place just to tell him that Macbeth is a tragedy, fortunately his class topic is
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Rita joins the class until it finishes. She realized that her level is still far
from the other student in the class but Frank just smiles. The researcher finds that
Frank is supporting Rita to get an education and see some potential from her.
However, she needs to work a little hard to figure it out. In the earlier scene
(0:12:45) where Rita wait for Frank to come out from his room and imagine if
Rita gives up and look for another tutor, she might not come this far.
Rita after attend Frank class with other students (ER, 1983: 0:39:56)
From some proofs that mentioned above, the researcher finds that Rita is a
smart woman but uneducated. However, after her tutorial class with Frank, her
knowledge gets better. The researcher sees that Rita’s environment cannot limit
her choices to get a higher education. She fights for the opportunity to study and
get freedom to choose what she wants. Rita gets strong desire to find her true
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The evidence that Rita’s education is get better and she can pursue her
dream to study and discover herself is when Frank asks her to go to a summer
school. She goes to her summer school by train. Before the train leaves, she and
Frank have a conversation and she shouts:
RITA: One should always have something sensational to read on the train!
(Russell, 1983, p. 29)
She then proudly says to another person in the compartment about what
she means to and it is about Oscar Wilde work.
Rita feels proud about her knowledge (ER, 1983: 0:57:57)
Other evidences that Rita’s education get better when Rita attends summer
school and a professor tell her about American poet and her discussion about
Chekov with her tutor at the summer school. There are bunch of students talk
about Shawn’s literary work. While Rita takes an order from the table that close to
them, she hears their discussion and ends up settle their arguments. Surprisingly
they are students from the same university she takes tutor class.
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Student 1: Hi, Susan (Rita).

Rita : Hiya.
Student 2 : Hi, Susan!
Tyson : Susan!
Rita : What?
Tyson : We want you to settle an argument. (Russell, 1983, p. 35)
From conversation above, Susan already finds her passion which is to get
knowledge she wants all this the time, even the other students even ask her
opinion to settle their arguments of literary works.
2. Rita’s Characteristic Portray Liberal Feminism
As it is discussed above, the researcher realized that Rita is struggled to
get the education and that she always wants from long time ago. Her environment
especially her family oppose her will to get higher education, instead they want
Rita to have a baby. Fortunately Rita wants to fight back and she thinks that she
deserve self-discovery and get education, she already determined to take every
risks that she have to face when she wants to pursue her dream. She has to rebel to
her family in order to get the same opportunity and freedom to get education to
choose what she wants, especially her father and husband that does not like Rita to
pursue her dream. As the researcher find in the movie Rita wants same
opportunity and it is to get educated, because she lack freedom to choose her path
she does not know what to do until open university happened and Rita thinks that
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Even though she already get job, she wants more than that. She wants to
get higher education and for her it is the only way to find the true identity that she
always looking for. As Rita is from working-class person and in her environment
people with higher education is hard to find, as the researcher find in her
characteristic she is a smart and has great intelligence. Even though her first essay
task is not really satisfied Frank but her intelligence can be seen when she
explained her essay to Frank and Frank ask her to correct her essay on that day
and the researcher also find that she even can finish it at her work place which is
not suitable place to finish the task. The researcher also finds that her
independence to apply the university without her family support is admirable, and
her rebellious act even though her family openly shows that they do not really like
the idea of Rita self-discovery by she applied the university program.
As the time passed by Rita’s hard work can be seen when she goes to a
summer school Frank suggests to her. At first, she is worried whether she can fit
to the environment there and whether she can catch up with the study. However,
Frank says she is fine, and she can get a lot of new experiences there. When she
arrives at summer school, she cannot believe that she can ride a bike and have a
conversation with new friends there.

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Rita rides a bike with her friends (ER, 1983: 0:58:17)
Rita tells Frank about her story at summer school’s lecture hall. She says
there are hundreds of people there. The professor finishes his explanation about
Chekov and asks the students if they have any question about the works. Rita says
she stands up and encourages herself to ask about Chekov. They ends up discuss
about Chekov in a week. It happens on scene (0:59:18-1:00:09).
After divorce with Denny, Rita can express what she feels and be an
independent women. Which means she is fine with herself, even without her
husband. It is hard at first since that she still loves Denny. However, Denny does
not support her choice to get an education. Rita chooses her education more than
Denny because she wants to know herself more. She attends summer school while
Frank at French for works. After she finishes her summer school, she gets flat and
shares with a woman named Trish. Now, Rita fulfills her living cost by herself by
working at a bistro of Trish’s friend to get money.

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Rita fights for her education to get better and self-discovery about her true
self, even with a lot of things happen in her life. She still can stand and hold
herself together. What the things go through her life while she gets an education
and self-discovery still makes her a great and independent woman who can choose
what she wants.

CHAPTER V
CONCLUSION
In this chapter, the researcher concludes the discussion of the problem
formulation. The first question analyzes the characteristics of Rita in the movie
Educating Rita. The researcher uses the theory of Joseph M. Boggs and Dennis
W. Petrie’s characterization theory and finds that determined, rebellious, smart,
hard-working, and independence are the characteristics of Rita.
Rita’s determination leads her to get education that she wants, even though
Frank does not want to teach her literature on their first meet. Rita’s rebellious act
against her husband and her family, especially father, because Rita’s father wants
her to have a baby instead of getting an education. Rita’s intelligence is very
unique because she has great intelligence to understand Frank tasks, however her
lack of education makes her learn more about it. Frank helps her through her study
and success on make her educated. Rita’s hard work to gain her knowledge from
attend tutorial class that she joins every week and also she joins summer school
while Frank goes to French, she finally can get knowledge and education because
of her hard work towards them. The last is Rita’s independent life, after her
divorce from Denny she has to live by her own because she cut her job as a
hairdresser. Fortunately, she gets another job in a bistro and can make her own
money to live.
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The second problem formulation focuses on how Rita’s characteristics can
portray liberal feminism. In this part, the researcher uses liberal feminism theory.
In this part of analysis, the researcher finds that Rita’s characteristics portray
liberal feminism. Rita’s determination and desire to get higher education is strong,
because of this she even lies to her husband about not consume any pregnancy
control pill but in facts she still consumes it because Rita does not want to have a
baby. Rita’s rebel through her family wish, especially her father, about gets a
child. Rita’s hard work and how she studies from zero to get knowledge that she
wants after a long time of her study and her study exchange at summer school.
With Rita’s education get better, she is also able to discover herself little by little.
It is not an easy choice to do what she wants but Rita proves she can get through
all, know herself better, and become educated. Rita also can enjoy herself more
after she finds out about her true self.

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PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI

LIBERAL FEMINISM SEEN THROUGH THE MAIN FEMALE

LAUDITA KANANA RIZKI NARESWARI

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LETTERS

LIBERAL FEMINISM SEEN THROUGH THE MAIN FEMALE

LAUDITA KANANA RIZKI NARESWARI

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LETTERS

A Sarjana Sastra Undergraduate Thesis

LffiERAL FEMINISM SEEN THROUGH THE MAIN FEMALE

LAOOITA KANANA RIZKI NARESWARI

Student Number: 144214070

Drn. AB. ~~A' PhD. May 9, 2019

A Sarjana Sastra Undergraduate Thesis

LffiERAL FEMINISM SEEN THROUGH THE MAIN FEMALE

LAUDITA KANANA RIZKI NARESWARI

Defended before the Board of Examiners

on June 10, 2019

Yogyakarta, June 28, 2019

to the best of my knowledge, this undergraduate thesis contains no material

text of the undergraduate thesis.

Yogyakarta, May 7, 2019

Laudita Kanana Rizki Nareswari

LEMBAR PERNYATAAN PERSETUJUAN PUBLIKASI

Nama : Laudita Kanana Rizki Nareswari

Nomor Mahasiswa : 144214070

Derni pengembangan ilmu pengetahuan, saya memberikan kepada Perpustakaan

LffiERAL FEMINISM SEEN THROUGH THE MAIN FEMALE

Demikian pernyataan ini saya buat dengan sebenamya.

Pada 7 Mei 2019

Laudita Kanana Rizki Nareswari

“The whale takes you.”

and my beautiful sunshine, M.

blessings, love, and generosity given to me while finishing my thesis.

My deepest gratitude to all lecturers in English Letters Sanata Dharma

University, especially Dra. A. B. Sri Mulyani, Ph.D., and Ni Luh Putu

My support system Naoko Lee Lokal, Korban Bias Wrecker, APIMUN

day. Last, thank you to my parents who support me unconditionally until I

Laudita Kanana Rizki Nareswari

TITTLE PAGE .................................................................................................... ii

CHAPTER II REVIEW OF LITERATURE .................................................... 6

CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY .................................................................. 15

2. Rita’s Characteristic Portrayed Liberal Feminism .............................. 39

NARESWARI, LAUDITA KANANA RIZKI (2019). Liberal Feminism Seen

Keywords: Characterization, Education, Liberal Feminism, True Identity

NARESWARI, LAUDITA KANANA RIZKI (2019). Liberal Feminism Seen

Kata Kunci: Karakterisasi, Pendidikan, Feminisme Liberal, Jati Diri

A. Background of the Study

were typically patriarchal” (1994, p. 437).

Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social

appears to fight for women right.

Stated in Wollstonecraft, Feminist Thoughts, “because something not permitted

want because the lack of liberty.

live, and how she express herself.

Mary Wollstonecraft’s, A Vindication of The Rights of Woman, states that

Women should be able to enter the world of medicine and politics.

education in their life.

Meanwhile, in Virginia Woolf A Room of One’s Own stated,” Women