Margaret Atwood The Robber Bride Analysis

Margaret Atwood, in her novels, tries to depict every dimension of an individual’s life in her time, particularly the femininity. The vast majority of her scholarship over the past thirty years has focused on her as a feminist, on the artist working through her writing to undermine a binaristic society that holds women as second class citizens, subjugated to the rule of their domineering husbands. Her characters are mostly those females who are subjugated to the domination of a patriarchal power, a father, a husband, a lover, or sometimes a friend. These subordinated women are often undergoing identity crises as the ultimate result of their suppressions. These identity confusions demonstrate themselves in the form of mental breakdowns which are depicted meticulously in the texture of Atwood's novel. …show more content…
The point is that this kind of society cannot satisfy the natural needs of the woman for freedom and this idea forms the background to her criticism of the contemporary life or society. …show more content…
Zenia is a “she devil”, malicious, manipulative and aggressive, bringing total havoc into the lives of her female friends. The novel explores and seeks answers to questions of identity, evil forces, partnership relations, war and history set against the notion of victimization. Of all the novels of Atwood, The Robber Bride most fully explores the role of the other in the constitution and continuance of the self. The plot is driven almost exclusively by a struggle for supremacy between the