‘Saving the world, everyone wants to; men think they can do it with guns, women with their bodies, love conquers all, conquers love all, mirages raised by words (p212)
The work along with its undeniable significance in writer’s career, signifies development of an emotional and personal momentum beyond ecofeminism about saving the world. This featured quality makes the particular work a moral optimistic , suggesting the possibility of resolution ,and it is this characteristic of which disposes it to a true ecofeminist work.
Ecofeminism, the term as discussed before also, is primarily an ideology bearing few concepts of feminist theory to bridge the old gap between the ideology of feminism and ecology ,thus,finally to find out a connection …show more content…
Even her later novels such as The Robber Bride (1993) and Alias Grace (1996) features female characters trapped in the world of intelligence and complexity. The Handmaid’s Tale which came in the year 1985 is dominated by an unforgiving view of patriarchy and its legacies. Her next few books dealt less with speculative worlds and more with history and literary conventions. In most of her novels, she has dealt with feminist concerns and women’s relationships with other characters—both positive and negative. She has tried to create a space for women and most of her novels are filled with female characters who are all seeking something for :freedom, answers, revenge, understanding, equality or fulfillment. Her novels portrays the power struggle between the opposite gender. She explores and illuminates the miserable condition of women in this suffocating patriarchal society. J. Brook Bouson remarks Atwood in this context in book Brutal Choreographies: Oppositional Strategies and Narrative Designs in the Novels of Margaret, ‘Margaret Atwood’s novels portray women’s extreme anxieties about male domination and sexual exploitation that have always plagued women’ (135) Being just not a feminist, her works also concerns on ecology and environment for which she has repeatedly made observations about human relationships with animals and nature. In a book Margaret Atwood: Feminism and Fiction by Fiona Tolan , Margaret Atwood quotes , ‘I don’t consider it feminism: I just consider it social realism’ (2). She has several times taken up her writing as to do something to ameliorate the environmental crisis. In her works ,she has performed the function of an artist to speak out especially in a time when progress and development are the jarring jingles of
The work along with its undeniable significance in writer’s career, signifies development of an emotional and personal momentum beyond ecofeminism about saving the world. This featured quality makes the particular work a moral optimistic , suggesting the possibility of resolution ,and it is this characteristic of which disposes it to a true ecofeminist work.
Ecofeminism, the term as discussed before also, is primarily an ideology bearing few concepts of feminist theory to bridge the old gap between the ideology of feminism and ecology ,thus,finally to find out a connection …show more content…
Even her later novels such as The Robber Bride (1993) and Alias Grace (1996) features female characters trapped in the world of intelligence and complexity. The Handmaid’s Tale which came in the year 1985 is dominated by an unforgiving view of patriarchy and its legacies. Her next few books dealt less with speculative worlds and more with history and literary conventions. In most of her novels, she has dealt with feminist concerns and women’s relationships with other characters—both positive and negative. She has tried to create a space for women and most of her novels are filled with female characters who are all seeking something for :freedom, answers, revenge, understanding, equality or fulfillment. Her novels portrays the power struggle between the opposite gender. She explores and illuminates the miserable condition of women in this suffocating patriarchal society. J. Brook Bouson remarks Atwood in this context in book Brutal Choreographies: Oppositional Strategies and Narrative Designs in the Novels of Margaret, ‘Margaret Atwood’s novels portray women’s extreme anxieties about male domination and sexual exploitation that have always plagued women’ (135) Being just not a feminist, her works also concerns on ecology and environment for which she has repeatedly made observations about human relationships with animals and nature. In a book Margaret Atwood: Feminism and Fiction by Fiona Tolan , Margaret Atwood quotes , ‘I don’t consider it feminism: I just consider it social realism’ (2). She has several times taken up her writing as to do something to ameliorate the environmental crisis. In her works ,she has performed the function of an artist to speak out especially in a time when progress and development are the jarring jingles of