Perlawanan Untuk Memperjuangkan Hak dan Keadilan dalam Novel Karmila Karya Marga Tjoa: Feminisme Eksistensialis Simon De Beauvoir


Abstract
This research analyzes the main character's form of resistance in the novel Karmila by Marga Tjoa, focusing on women's struggle for rights and justice within the framework of Simon de Beauvoir's existentialist feminism. Through a qualitative descriptive method that describes the object's situation based on facts, relevant excerpts of the novel are analyzed to understand how the author expresses existentialist feminism in a literary work. The results show that Karmila fights for rights and justice by becoming a working woman, pursuing education and achieving career success, and rejecting subordination by opposing traditional roles that limit women's freedom. The study concludes that Karmila in the novel is a strong example of women's struggle to take control of their own lives by resisting any form of oppression or dependence on others, in accordance with Simon de Beauvoir's principles of existentialist feminism.
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