Motherhood in Margaret Atwood's novels: Motherhood and Feminism in "The Handmaid's Tale", "Cat's Eye" and "Oryx & Crake" (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783668948686)

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2018 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, language: English, abstract: The aim of this bachelor thesis is to contribute to research on how feminist perspectives on motherhood are portrayed in North American fictional writing. For this purpose, I will use close reading techniques to analyze Margaret Atwood's novels The Handmaid's Tale, Cat's Eye and Oryx and Crake to show that all three foster a feminist view on motherhood. I will argue that in the novels Atwood recognizes motherhood as both a source of oppression and a source of empowerment. Additionally, I will demonstrate how she dismantles the myth of perfect motherhood by portraying disrupted mother-child relationships, authentic maternal experiences and the subjectivity of mother figures that would traditionally be regarded as "bad" mothers.

Author: Ronja Thiede
ISBN-10: 3668948682
ISBN-13: 9783668948686
Publisher: Grin Verlag
Language: English
Published: 06/24/2019
Pages: 66
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.21lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.16d