Volume : 5, Issue : 12, December - 2016

WOMAN IN THE PATRIARCHAL WORLD AS PORTRAYED BY MARGRAET ATWOOD IN THE EDIBLE WOMAN

T. Menaka, Dr. B. Visalakshi

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">Literature is a social evidence and testimony. </span></b><b style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">Gender bias characters portrayed gender related problems.</span></b><b style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;"> Society and the other forces dominating womanhood are later questioned and they began to question for their right. Margaret Atwood&rsquo;s novels explore women&rsquo;s experience in a patriarchal culture.&nbsp; She presents women caught in oppressive stereotypes who struggle to create a female space for themselves. Life of Marian pictures in the Edible Women shows as though the protagonist have a decent occupation and contented affiliation with her lawyer but later proves to be subjugation forced on her which curtails her freedom. Realisation of her victim stage struggle over her situation to accept the social convention or to ascertain the free will life was a big question in her life. </span></b><b style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;&#10;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">&nbsp;She is not ready to accept the superiority of the man who exploits her in all ways and rejects to be inferior to any power. She facilitates herself in the path of life though stumbled in the earlier stage she later realisies her self identity and proclaims not to be an edible product consumable for any in the society so she offers cake in shape of women to her fianc&eacute;.</span></b>< /> <b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;&#10;mso-fareast-font-family:Calii;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:&#10;EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">< clear="all" style="page-eak-before:always;mso-eak-type:section-eak" /> </span></b></p>