This study sheds light on Emma Donoghue's novel Room the novel is analyzed using the feminist theory.The study concentrates on the female main character who is imprisoned for seven years in a room. An existentialist feminism approach will be used to grasp woman's struggle against patriarchal ideology in order to get her existence both within and outside the room. The aims of this study are to investigate what the impacts of oppression have on the female protagonist character in the novel, namelyMa as well as how she defeats oppression represented by Old Nick

Existentialist feminism, oppression, Patriarchal ideology, Room