THE STRUGGLE OF MATA HARI RESISTING AGAINST PATRIARCHAL SYSTEM IN EUROPE IN MATA HARI NOVEL BY PAULO COELHO

Abstract

The existence of feminism is an effect of the existence of patriarchal, a system that put men as the superior part while women as the inferior. Many women obey the system, without resistance. To analyze how the characterizations of the main character “Mata Hari” in Mata Hari novel and the resistance to the patriarchal system Mata Hari does. This study employs a qualitative research method consisting of the description, reduction and selection stages. The research stage begins by observing the depiction of the characters and the problems raised in the novel, continues to reduce the information obtained from the description stage and focuses on the problems raised in the theme, then ends by connecting the data obtained with the theory used. The patriarchal system exists in every part of Mata Hari’s life; when she was kid, gets married, comes to Franc, and takes the a job as the men usually do. Mata Hari always fight the patriarchal system in every part of her life to struggle for women rights. To the next researchers who want to observe the same theme with the writer to make the analysis about the correlation between the characterizations with the feminism.