Social Mobility And Struggle For Women’s Right To Choose Spouses In Jane Austen’s Persuasion

摘要

This research aims at: (1) finding out the effects of social mobility in the novel to theudchanging of human thoughts and attitudes; (2) scrutinizing the female main character’sudstruggle for her right to choose her spouse; and (3) revealing the relation of British socialudbackground in nineteenth century and Jane Austen’s Persuasion’s story.udThe qualitative research is carried out by making use of the descriptive method. Theudresearcher analyzes the data by using feminist and sociology of literature. The analysis isudused for: describing the extrinsic elements of the novel including the background of theudnovel’s production and Jane Austen’s life; analyzing the psychological motivations ofudchanging thought and attitudes of each character of the novel.udBased on the result of the data analysis, the research findings are: (1) The socialudmobility happens in Austen’s Persuasion. brings about some influences to the characters’udattitudes and thought; (2) the female main character do some struggles for obtaining her rightudto choose her spouse; (3) there is a close relation between the Jane Austen’s Persuasion andudits context of production in the nineteenth century. The result of this research implies that theudthere are some significant changing on human thought and attitudes in Jane Austen’sudPersuasion; there some efforts done by the female main character to struggle for her right toudchoose her spouse and the last, there is a close relation between Jane Austen’s Persuasionudand its context of production