“Unveiling The Patriarchal Veil: Margaret Atwood's Interrogation Of Gender Norms In Lady Oracle”

Abstract

In the male dominated world women are conditioned to be victims, the objects of the male self’s power. Simon de Beauvoire says in The Second Sex, “for him she is sex-absolute sex, no less. She is defined and differentiated with reference to man and not with reference to her; she is incidental, as opposed to the essential… He is the Absolute she is the other” (164).