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Masculinity behind Womanliness as Portrayed by the Character or Margo Roth Spiegelmenb in Paper Towns Novel
ABSTRACT
Woman and her position toward man in society are always interesting to
be discussed. Woman is commonly labeled by femininity for years and often be
associated with several characteristics such as gentle, caring, loving and inferior
from man because of the gender stereotype formed by society. By this research,
the researcher aimed to analyze the masculine traits of the female character,
Margo Roth Spiegelman in Paper Towns Novel and to analyze relationship
between womanliness and masculinity‘s possession in Margo‘s character.
This research adopted qualitative method and used content analysis as the
data analysis technique. This research used Sandra L Bem‘s Sex Role Inventory
as the indicator of masculinity in Margo‘s character and Joan Riviere‘s
Womanliness as Masquerade to reveal the relationship between masculinity‘s
possession and womanliness of Margo‘s character in Paper Towns novel. The
result of this research showed that Margo has masculine traits even though she is a
woman and she uses her womanliness as her natural characteristic to hide her
masculine traits in front of her close friend, Quentin. Nevertheless, with
masculinity inside her character, Margo still needs presence of man‘s character in
her life.
Key words: Gender, Gender stereotypes, Masculinity, Womanliness as
Msquerade, Paper Towns Novel
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