Feminism In Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace

Feminism is the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those men. Women in Alias Grace was represented by creature who have a heart of a demon that uses their sexual appearance or sex itself to achieve what they wanted. The book show stereotypes, ‘women can never supersede men in anything’, ‘women are responsible for provoking men into adultery’, and ‘women were the property of men.’ To prove some of the stereotypes, ‘“He was fumbling with the latch of the door. I always lock myself in at night, but I knew that lock or no lock, sooner or later he will find a way of getting in, with a ladder or nothing else, and once you are found with a man in the same room you are the guilt one, no matter how they get in.”’ (Atwood, 199) and ‘“Nancy had given him his notice, and he was to leave at the end of the month. He said, he was just glad, as he did not like being order around by a woman.”’ (Atwood, 300)
Men believe that women were unable to do anything that needed muscle or intellectual power. Women could not attend public executions because men believe they posed a danger to their define nature. These are proven by (Dr Simon Jordon speaking about public executions) …show more content…
Middle class women will go in to teaching to earn themselves a living and will work in a boarding house, a public school or let student come to their own homes. Only old and poor widow were respect as men believe that without a husband, young women were helpless and could not support themselves. Although they like the thought of a young or/ rich widow, they were not respected since the elderly women proved that they were able to survive on their own whereas the younger could not. “And I also thought about how the men would wink and nod when a young and rich widow was mentioned, and how are widow a respectable thing to be if old or poor, but not otherwise; which is quite strange when you come to consider it.” (Atwood,