Margaret Atwood: Voicing transition in the Conscience of Women
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Margaret Atwood, a prominent Canadian novelist, in her novels has proficiently and subtly voiced transition in the conscience of contemporary women. Through her vivid female characters and poignant themes, she has explored various shades and aspects of – not only mind but also of body— of a woman. The inside turmoil, thoughts, frustrations and anxieties, have been adeptly dealt in narratives of the novels, and have been depicted through various external disorders that occurs at mental and physical levels caused by inner dissatisfactions. Through the journey of her female characters she not only, assertively, presents the internal as well as outer condition of women, but also proposes solution to end the overshadowed state of existence of women by men and society. Atwood impressively delineates in her stories – the changed ‘conscience’ of women— that also support and propagate the concept of “New Woman”. The paper aims at locating the points where the breakthrough in the stereotyped feminine conscience occurs, paving way for the origin of new women in the selected novels of Atwood.
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