Abstract
Margaret Atwood is one of the most talented, powerful and intelligent writers in the west today. She articulates the dilemmas, contradictions and ambiguities of the late twentieth century with all its complexities and extremities. Casting her vision of life in myriad forms her techniques and themes know no limit. Known widely as a poet and a novelist, Atwood is also a critic, a short story writer, an essayist, a caricaturist and a writer of children’s books. A versatile genius, Atwood through her novel explores the various inter-related social, physical and psychological anxieties of the people. Portrayal of women characters in literature are as varied as the authors who create them. Female protagonists have represented an interminable array of roles throughout literature. Whether women are represented as angels or metaphorical monsters, it is obvious that female characters have been pigeonholed and stereo typed for centuries.
Highlights
Margaret Atwood is one of the most talented, powerful and intelligent writers in the west today
Writers of every age and every background have been and are engaged setting right the unfair tendencies that are prevalent in the society
It could be asserted that all those writers have had humanitarian concerns with different viewpoints
Summary
Margaret Atwood is one of the most talented, powerful and intelligent writers in the west today. Atwoods novels show how daily life gradually wears women down. Atwood shows the rejection of victimization by breaking away from the society. Her four protagonists survive because they are able to change and transform in order to fit in to their environments.
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