Waruwu, Arni Kristin
(2023)
Toxic Masculinity Represented in Collen Hoover’s
It Ends With Us (2016).
Skripsi thesis, Fakultas Bahasa dan Seni.
Abstract
This research delves into the theme of toxic masculinity as portrayed in Colleen
Hoover's novel, "It Ends with Us". Toxic masculinity is one of a theme which
discussed in literary works. Toxic masculinity refers to harmful social norms and
expectations that promote traditional gender roles that associated with how man
should behave to be called as being a real man. This research aims to find out the
aspects that caused the male characters named Ryle Kincaid and Andrew Bloom in
the novel It Ends With Us by Collen Hoover could be toxic by using the patriarchy
theory of Johnson, the forms of toxic masculinity that represented by these male
characters in this novel by using the toxic masculinity theory of Kupers, and how the
woman character named Lily Bloom in this novel responses towards toxic
masculinity by using existentialist feminism by Simon de Beauvoir. The results of
this research found that the aspect that influenced the male characters in this novel to
be toxic is the traditional gender roles. Then this research also shows the forms of
toxic masculinity that can be found in this novel such as misogyny, domination and
physical violence. Last, the research depicts the woman resistance as the responses
towards toxic masculinity by showing intellectual, being herself and breaking through
the toxic cycle.
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