Review of Related Theories Chapter II. Metodology

Chapter II.Metodology
Object of the Study
In this part, the researcher explains the object that is used in the study. As it used to be noted previously, the object of this find out about is from a novel entitled Eat, Pray, Love. Eat, Pray, Love is a novel written with the aid of Elizabeth Gilbert. This book the most iconic e book written with the aid of Gilbert. This novel is published in 2006, by way of Penguin Books. The story has the first-person factor of view because the content material is about Gilbert's journey, the author and the foremost character. So "I" is the storyteller. The story is about the ride of the lifestyles of a author named Elizabeth Gilbert (Liz) from New York. Liz is an trained woman, who has the entirety in her life. A excellent house, a right career, a husband, and pals who help her. With all that she gets in her life, she is supposed to be happy, but instead, she experiences a midlife crisis, and additionally depression. At the beginning of the story, Gilbert comes to Bali to meet the historic medication man, Ketut Liyer. Ketut stated that Gilbert will have two marriage, one long and every other is short. Not long after she comes again to New York, she divorces her husband due to the fact she is sad with her eight years historical marital life.⁵
After passing hard enmity, finally, the husband of Gilbert sooner or later agreed to be separated. Before Gilbert's husband is subsequently agreed to be divorced, Gilbert is having a relationship with David, a man whose age is 8 years younger than Gilbert whoseage used to be 36 at that time. Unfortunately, the relationship additionally does now not quit up properly due to the fact of the age gap.
Having no motivation in her life, Liz decided to search for her identification and recover her damaged heart by travelling to three countries, Italy, India, and Indonesia. Italy for her appetite, India for her God and Indonesia for the balance in her life. In these three countries, she often finds people asking for her marital reputation and mocking her for now not being married. Some experiences supply Gilbert flashbacks into her love life in the past. The journey of Gilbert makes her has exclusive understanding about marriage. Until finally, Gilbert meets Felipe from Brazil, and she, at last, feels the feeling of being in love once more after nearly a year all she feels is emptiness.
In order to get the solutions to the trouble formulated, researcher chooses certain approach to analyze this research. The approach which is used in this learn about is feminist approach. Feminism method is considered appropriate to be used in this study due to the fact this approach focuses on the fighting of women to avoid the existence of gender inequality According to Barry in his book, female opt for to count on guys rather than battle by herself.
Feminist pointed out, for example, that in nineteenth-century fiction very few women work for a living unless they are driven to it by dire necessity. Instead, the focus of interest is on the heroine's choice of marriage partner, which will decide her ultimate social position and exclusively determine her happiness and fulfillment in life, or her lack of these.
This approach is related with the situation of Gilbert who chooses to work even though her husband also works and it makes her an independent woman.
Second, according to Maggie Humm in her book titled A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Feminist Literary Criticism, feminism is a synonym for women's emancipation (1994, p. 1). "Women become feminists by becoming conscious of, and criticizing, the power of symbolic misrepresentations of woman" (1994, p. 3). Humm also states that feminist literary critics are concerned with "the ways in which literary texts have the power to produce gender representations at odds with woman's experiences" (1994, p. ix). It is also related with Gilbert's situation when she becomes aware that she should not be treated in a certain way by her husband, then finally she realizes that she can be freed from the patriarchy which undergone by her.⁶