Fatma Rosita, 2211410015 (2015) HENRIK IBSEN’S A DOLL’S HOUSE: WOMAN’S FIGURE REPRESENTATION IN THE VICTORIAN ERA. Under Graduates thesis, UNIVERSITAS NEGERI SEMARANG.

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This final project was a study of Henrik Ibsen‘s play A Doll‟s House. The aim of the study was to find woman‘s figure representation which was portrayed in the play during the Victorian era. The method used is descriptive qualitative. Qualitative data research does not focus on numerals or statistics but gives most attention to concepts which are being learned. Therefore, the writer focused on the words, phrases, sentences, monologues, and dialogues as the data to analyze. The data were collected by reading the play, selecting and identifying the data, and classifying the data based on related research question. The data were also analyzed by using sociological criticism on feminist critique. By using this criticism, the writer analyzed the work which was written by Henrik Ibsen, especially in how he depicted woman‘s figure in this play. The collected data were analyzed by identifying woman‘s figure representation through the intrinsic elements, making interpretation and explanation, making conclusion, and reporting the data in the appendix. The analysis results in two findings. Woman‘s figure representation in this play is portrayed by Nora‘s character and by the symbol of ―doll.‖ Woman‘s figure represented by Nora‘s character was complex that she prances about in the first act, behaves desperately in the second, and gains a stark sense of reality during the final of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House. In the first, act she represents childlike qualities such as childish, deceptive, obedience, conceited, inconsistent, unadorned, insisted, and dependence. In the second act, she represents a desperate woman by being manipulative, insecure, and seducer. In the final act, she represents mature qualities such as becomes calmer, bolder, and more independent. Woman‘s figure represented by the use of ―doll‖ as a symbol of woman in this play is that both Nora and the doll are demanding treatment, demanding leadership, and having physical beauty that can give amusement.

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