Relationships in Margaret Atwood’s the Edible Woman
Author : Juhi Birla
Abstract :
Margaret Atwood explores radical realities in the relationships in her poetry and Novels. She depicts numerous colors of the life of her characters, in the relationship between men and women, and significant degree her insights into power patterns are shaped by an awareness of how people are competent by their society from childhood to hold one set of attitudes toward and another toward men. Margaret Atwood’s characters men and women and their relationships reveal how this double standard has destructive consequences for both sexes, among them overpowering, denial and eventually atrophy of feeling, resulting in relationships governed not by love but by elusive power games which are characterized by insensitivity and ruthlessness and in which men hold the advantage.
Prize winner a versatile writer Margaret Atwood shows in her novel The Edible Woman, the clear picture of various real colors of social and political life. Where the protagonist of the novel Marian Mac Alpin conflicts g with her relations.
Keywords :
Relationship, victim, consumerism
