Nature, Gender, and Resistance in Atwood's Surfacing and The Handmaid's Tale
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https://doi.org/10.33806/ijaes.v24i2.509Keywords:
ecofeminism, patriarchy, Margaret Atwood, oppression, Surfacing, The Handmaid's TaleAbstract
This study attempts to explain Margaret Atwood’s two famous novels Surfacing (1972) and The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) in reference to Ecofeminism. Women and nature are always celebrated with each other and wherever their position is absolutely neglected. As a result, the sterility of the society launches. Atwood selects females as the leading characters and ecological catastrophe in its contextual. Atwood knowledgeably syndicates in Surfacing and The Handmaid’s Tale the dual subjugation of nature and women that occurs in the two societies. The corruption of nature conveys extermination to the societies and develop a contributory dynamic of subjugation of women by patriarchal society. She clinches that the discrimination against women and nature is identical and thus liberation of women won’t be fruitful without an equivalent endeavor to liberate nature.
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Accepted 2024-03-21
Published 2024-06-06
