Main Characters’ Complicated Issues as a Women in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility: New Criticism Study

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Febrianti, Difta Millenia (2022) Main Characters’ Complicated Issues as a Women in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility: New Criticism Study. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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This study examines The Complicated Issues Experienced by The Women characters in the novel Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. The novel Sense and Sensibility tells about the struggle of the family consisting of a mother and her three daughters, who must continue their lives when their father dies. There are three problems to be solved in this study: (1.) how are the main characters characterization described in the Sense and Sensibility novel by Jane Austen? (2.) what are the issues of each main character, and how do they deal with them?. This study uses a qualitative method. The researcher analyzes the data by first reading and understanding the contents, then collecting things that will later be analyzed, and then describing sentences, phrases, or paragraphs related to the topic discussed by the researcher. The data were collected by following the three steps: First, The researcher reads and understands the story's content in the novel. Second, arrange related things to be researched or analyzed. Last, collect the data such as words, phrases, or narration in stories related to the complicated issues experienced by the female characters in the story. This study uses the theory of New Criticism, Character, and Characterization because this research analyzes the characterization of the main female character in the novel.This study found that each character has a different characterization and complicated issues. First, Mrs. Dashwood is known as a loving mother willing to do anything for her children's happiness. Second, Elinor, the first daughter of Mrs. Dashwood, has a mature and wise character. Moreover, the third is the character Marianne, known for her friendly nature and high self-honesty. While for the complicated issues that the women characters have to experience are: First, Mrs. Dashwood's problem comes from the low social status she has, which leads to the poor love life of her daughters, that continuously get rejected by their in law's side of the family. Second is the love life problem of Elinor and Edward, which did not get approval from Edward's family because of Elinor's low social status. Moreover, Marianne's problem comes from the man she loves named Willoughby, who keeps making her confused with his strange acts, which finally reveals his true colors at the end of the story about what kind of a man he is.