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1.3.
Scope and Limitation
This
study
will
scope
on
Literature
analysis,
especially
the
work
of
fiction
novel
titled Lady
Audley's
Secret, by
Mary Elizabeth
Braddon.
Mary
Elizabeth
Braddon
who
brought
up
by
her
mother
and
left
by
her
father
since
the
age
of
5
grown
to
write
in
order
to
support
herself
and
her
mother
life.
She
achieved
her
first
popularity
from
her
controversial
novel, Lady
Audley's
Secret.
And
the
analysis
of this thesis will
be
limited
on
the
main
character
of
the story,
Lady
Audley, a wife of a noble and rich widower, who
has
some
behavioral
complexities.
1.4.
Goals and Function
The
goals of
this
research
are
to reveal
the
kind
of
struggles
and
empowerments
that
the
main
character,
Lady
Audley,
shows
in
order
to
survive
and
ensure
her
freedom
and
independency
among
the
male
domination.
This
study
is
also
proposed
to
reveal
how
Lady
Audley's
struggles
and
empowerments
applied
in
order
to
represent women
movements
in
each
feminism
phases,
especially
the
first
phase
of
feminism.
Hopefully,
this
study
will
also
acknowledge
the
reader
about
Mary
Elizabeth
Braddon's works,
Lady
Audley's Secret
about
the
women's
struggles,
empowerments,
and
movements
from
the
male
constraints
in
the
Victorian
Era,
and
its
contribution
to
the
larger
chain
offeminist
literature
and
feminist
movement.
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