The Robber Bride にみるカナダ人のアイデンティティとフェミニズム

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The following study examines Canadian identity and feminism in Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride. In the novel the four main women characters undergo divided or multiple personality. They have all faced complicated childhood and have difficulty defining their identity. By confronting their worst enemy, Zenia, three women, Tony, Charis and Roz, find their true self. Their struggle to finding out their own identity represents the same predicament that many Canadians have for living in a country of multi culture. Their multiple personality also represents the struggle of women who fight for their survival in paternal society. The story also asserts the idea of feminism by referring the Grimm fairy-tale The Robber Bridegroom. The story reverses the role of male and female characters to evoke the difference of male and female idea in our society. I would like to look into the significance of the fairy-tale The Robber Bridegroom and how the context of the original fairy-tale is relative to Atwood's The Robber Bride.
2010-12-24