A Marxist Feminism Critics on John Lennon’s Mother

Abstract

Modern people tend to have problems with multi faces of life. People get happiness from
the indulgence of buying things as the impacts of industrialization, and on the other hand,
they get alienation in their lives. This double point of view of life can be seen through the
life of labor in big cities around the world, especially when it is related to the life of
people in western countries, as the research focuses on how to understand the life of John
Lennon related to his own experience of having a mother and a father coming-from a
working class society. It is an urgent matter to comprehend such life so that people can
do something about it. The theory employed is Marxist Feminism. The research method
applied was descriptive qualitative, made use of a biographical approach. Lennon’s
Mother is an expression of his feelings about his past related to his childhood as the son
of working-class people. Lennon undergoes feeling of alienation. Capitalism oppresses
women as workers, but patriarchal oppresses women as women, and those things affect
women’s identity and activity
Keywords: Alienation; John Lennon; Marxist Feminism; Mother