Feminist Criticism theory in the novel
“Harry Potter” by J.K. Rowling
Introduction
According to Peter Barry’s book, Feminism was born because of women are disadvantaged by comparison with men and the unequal treatment towards women by men. Women ask for their rights, because they believed that they deserve equality. In this paper I will analyze the feminist approach through Harry Potter Novels by J.K. Rowling.
As we all know, Joanne Kathleen Rowling a.k.a J.K. Rowling is a female British novelist. These Harry Potter and his adventures novels have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, sold more than 400 million copies to become the best-selling book series in history and been the basis for a popular series of films, in which Rowling had overall approval on the scripts as well as maintaining creative control by serving as a producer on the final installment. Rowling conceived the idea for the series on a train trip from Manchester to London in 1990. I’m lucky to have an incredible female writer for this analysis, but I won’t analysis this paper on the writer’s point of view or experience. I will challenge the representation of women as ‘Other’, as ‘lack’, and as part of ‘nature’.
Harry potter is the story about wizard community. The main character is a male, but there are many parts in the story where the character female give big contributions. The first until the seventh book is the story about the adventure of Harry Potter to defeat Lord Voldemort. Where the female characters show the feminism because they play important roles and described to be as powerful as well.
The analysis
As I mention above, I will challenge the representation of women as ‘other’, as ‘lack’, and as part of ‘nature’ through these Harry Potter novels. The main characters of this story, well, of course, is a man called “Harry”. Harry has a close friend named Hermione Granger.
Hermione’s described as “she has a bossy voice, bushy brown hair and