THE ANALYSIS OF LIBERAL FEMINISM PORTRAYED BY THE FEMALE CHARACTERS IN SHANG - CHI MOVIE

This paper entitled “The Analysis of Liberal Feminism Portrayed by The Female
Characters in Shang - Chi Movie.” This study has two aims: (1) to identify the
liberal feminism discrimination found in the female characters of Shang - Chi
movie and (2) to analyze the liberal feminism portrayed by the female characters
through the dialogue in the Shang - Chi movie. This paper was written based on
the main theory from Tong (1998) about of the types of feminism in the book
entitled A Vindication of The Rights of Woman and also this study used two other
theories to support the analysis, such as the theory of dialogues by Kenney (1966)
in the book entitled How to Analyze Fiction, and the theory of context of situation
by Halliday and Hasan (1989) in the book entitled Language, Context, and Text:
Aspects of language in a Social-Semiotic Perspective. The data source of this
study was Shang Chi movie directed by Daniel Cretton. This study used
observation method by watching the movie repeatedly to observe the
discrimination and also the struggles reflected by the female characters.
Descriptive study in textual analysis was applied in this study to analyze the
conversation and pictures of the female characters in the movie. Based on the
result of the analysis, liberal feminism is the type of feminism that focused on the
discrimination found in the movie. The female characters also reflected the
struggles to get the independence and the equality of rights, and education in the
form of social and economic.