Reconstructing Feminine Identity in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale

Abstract

Society becomes the ultimate source of the individual’s anxiety.  Many feminist organizations have flourished to demand the essential rights of female.  The representation of woman in literature has been considered as one of the most important forms of socialization. Atwood’s characterisation interestingly reflects theoretic perspective in many ways. The connection between the internal being of her characters and social reality is so close and obvious their reaction and responses to social interactions are mostly psychological.  As social beings they are inevitably subjected to social reification, whereas as isolated individuals, they frequently retreat to their inner realm and are extremely vulnerable to psychological laws. This serves at least as a partial answer to the question of why life is so bleak for Atwood’s middle – class educated women.  The characters in the novel ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and their language purely reflect the inmost thought of feminine crisis in social myth.