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THE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMAN IN THE NOVEL “BIG LITTLE LIES”

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This thesis explores the violence experienced by female characters in
Liane Moriarty's novel Big Little Lies by using Humm’s theory of feminism

and Harnoko's theory of violence. The researcher used the descriptive-
qualitative method. The novel Big Little Lies (2014) tells about the types of

violence and oppression experienced by Jane and Celeste. The researcher
found that the violence experienced by women in the novel Big Little Lies is
divided into two types: verbal violence and physical violence. The types of
verbal violence contained in the novel such us harassment, threatening and
yelling. The types of physical violence contained in the novel such us hitting,
slapping and pulling hair. In this study, the most commonly found types was
physical violence, where violence contained elements of violence resulted in
victims being physically injured as well as having mental wounds and being
mentally shaken as a result of the physical violence.

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BSI 2022 NUR a

Publisher

Makassar : FAH. Adab & Humaniora UIN ALauddin., 2022

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x-51 hal;30cm

Language

English

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BSI 2022 NUR a

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Subject(s)

Feminism
violence against women

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