VIVID: JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE - VOL. 8 NO. 1 (2019) Available online at : http://jurnalvivid.fib.unand.ac.id Vivid: Journal of Language and Literature | ISSN (Online) 2502-146X | Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International. Some rights reserved Literature The Uniqueness Heroines Depicted In Gillian Flynn’s Novels Entitled Gone Girl And Dark Places Siti Alifah Tamir 1 , Diah Tyahaya Iman 2 1,2 English Department, Faculty of Humanities, Andalas University ARTICLE INFORMATION ABSTRACT Received: November 05, 2018 Revised: January 22, 2019 Available online: March 28, 2019 This article is aimed to study the uniqueness of female character or heroine in Gillian Flynn’s novels entitled Dark Places (2009) dan Gone Girl (2012). The concept of heroin and gynocriticism approaches is used to examine the uniqueness of the main character in both novels. Amy Dunne in Gone Girl and Libby Day pada Dark Places can be considered as antiheroine. From the result of the analysis, it can be concluded that Flynn introduced an interesting female characterization. The anti-heroine characters are portrayed in an intriguing plot. She presents woman as offender and sexual manipulation interestingly. The exploration of feminine vulnerability to undermine the dominancy of masculine privilege has brought the themes of both novels to. KEYWORDS Heroines, Females Character, Gynocriticism Approaches CORRESPONDENCE E-mail: sitialifah@gmail.com INTRODUCTION Woman struggles in seizing equality and justice on second-half of twentieth century are surrounded by some significant movements in certain field, such as in politics, household, career and education. The women writers have to appear through a variety of literary works as a statement that women also have the similar chance and capability to create masterpieces of work like male author or famously classified as literary canon. One name of female authors who contributes in crafting female literary canon in contemporary literature is Gillian Flynn. She is known for her works such as Sharp Objects (2006), Dark Places (2009) and Gone Girl (2012). Flynn’s Dark Places got several prestigious awards like New York Times bestseller, New Yorker Reviewers’ Favorite, Weekend Today Top Summer Read, Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2009, and Chicago Tribune Favorite Fiction choice. In 2015, the movie adaptation starring Charlize Theron was released. Flynn’s last novel, Gone Girl [1], is also celebrated as an international sensation and being New York Times bestseller lists . Gone Girl was named one of the best books of the year by People Magazine and Janet Maslin at the New York Times. Nominated for both the Edgar Award and the Anthony Award for Best Novel, Flynn wrote the screenplay for David Fincher’s adaptation of Gone Girl [2] for the big screen, starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike.