Representation of Women Empowerment in Enola Holmes 2020: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis (Mda)

Abstract

This study aims to scrutinize the imbalanced position of women in society as a representative against man authority to determine a movement for women's empowerment in the movie Enola Holmes 2020. The theories used in this study are Multimodal Discourse Analysis (MDA) by Kress and Leeuwen (2006), Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) by Halliday (2004), and theory of women empowerment to uncover the main female’s character movement through her visual and language. The type of this research is qualitative method. The result shows the main female character represented as a more prominent and ideal participant than the male actor based on visual and linguistic elements analysis. In addition, the empowerment movement was discovered from character Enola in showing her ability to deal with the conflict, her role as a woman, and her freedom.