A Critical Study on Stemming of New Women in Selected Novels of Margaret Atwood

Abstract

Margaret Atwood is one of the most skilled, effective and versatile 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 imaginative and prescient of existence in myriad types her strategies and issues be aware of no limit. Known extensively as a poet and a novelist, Atwood is additionally a critic, a brief story writer, an essayist, a caricaturist and a creator of children’s books. A versatile genius, Atwood thru her novel explores the more than a few inter-related social, bodily and psychological anxieties of the people. Portrayal of girls characters in literature are as various as the authors who create them. Female protagonists have represented an interminable array of roles in the course of literature. Whether girls are represented as angels or metaphorical monsters, it is apparent that woman characters have been pigeonholed and stereo typed for centuries.