Raden Ajeng Kartini, the daughter of Raden Mas Adipati Sosroningrat, was born on

April 21st, 1879 and died on September 17th, 1904. During her life, he had scrawled a
lot of history that people known. She was known because her letters had touched
readers’ heart. They had been written since May 25th, 1899 in a novel The Letters of A
Javanese Princess. The letters contain problems that experinced by her both internal
and external. I will show some conflict that experienced through her letters.

In the begining of novel The Letters of A Javanese Princess, I found conflict as

follows :

“... . When she went home after school was over, she repeated the question anxiously,
“What am I going to be when I grow up?” Her father, who loved her very dearly, did
not answer but smiled and pinched her cheek. An older brother overheard her and
said, “What should a girl become, why a Raden Ajoe of course.” Raden Ajoe is
the title of a Javanese married women of high rank, while the unmarried
daughter of a regent is Raden Adjeng.
In Kartini a spirit of rebellion was awakened which grew with the years. Even as a
child she vowed that she would not become merely a Raden Ajoe, she would be
strong, combat all prejudice and shape her own destiny. ...” (page 5)

The sentences in bold showed Kartini’s statement in his heart that she reject the call
against her. She would not become a Raden Ajoe. It is the title of a Javanese married
women. It shows a conflict that she did not agree with statement from her older
brother. She would not be a married woman. The conflict comes from internal because
herself vowed that she would not become merely a Raden Ajoe. She eradicate
prejudice and shape her own goal. It includes conflict man against man because there
is not agreement between one and another person. Kartini did not agree with older
brother’s statement that want her to married.

“... . Her first journey into the outside world was to accompany her parents to the
festivities held in honour of the coronation of Queen Wilhelmina.
This caused a great scandal in conservative Javanese society. But Kartini and her
sisters did not have the freedom for which they longed. They could not go out
into the world and fight its battles. They could only take well chaperoned little
excursion and meet the guests, both men and women, of their father’s household. ...”
(page 6)

The second one conflict that I found, take from page 6. From the text above, we know
Kartini and her sisters had been locked by her father to stay at home. They did not
have freedom from their beloved father. They did not allow to go out. It shows there
is conflict man against society becausy R. A Kartini does not have freedom interaction
to surrounding environment, could not