Middle Class Women Role in the 19th Century as Reflected in Bronte's Wuthering Heights

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  • Desy Nur Indrasari Hasanuddin University
  • Fathu Rahman Hasanuddin University
  • Herawaty Abbas Hasanuddin University

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https://doi.org/10.34050/els-jish.v3i2.9143

Keywords:

middle class1, women2, role3, sociology of literature4

Abstract

The aim of this research is to describe middle class women role in the 19th century in Bronte’s novel, Wuthering Heights, and induce a deeper understanding of effect each role on two characters in society. This research is a qualitative descriptive method using sociological approach. By using sociology of literature, a literary work is seen as a document of social. The data of this research collected from the descriptions and utterances of the characters and narrator in the novel. The result in this research shows that the role of women from the middle class were represented by the characters of the novel known as Catherine Earnshaw Linton, the main female protagonist and the motherless child and also Catherine (Cathy) Linton, daughter of Catherine Earnshaw Linton.

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Desy Nur Indrasari, Hasanuddin University

English Language Studies

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Published

2020-06-29

How to Cite

Indrasari, D. N., Rahman, F., & Abbas, H. (2020). Middle Class Women Role in the 19th Century as Reflected in Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 3(2), 214-218. https://doi.org/10.34050/els-jish.v3i2.9143

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