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The Robber Bride - Online Term Paper

The Robber Bride

Depending on how you look at Margaret Atwood’s , Timson
calls it an “upmarket melodrama” whereas Martin refers to it as a novel
“confronting politically correct feminism”. The truth is it isn’t
either of these. While some of the situations are greatly exaggerated,
this book comments on the way that women interact with each other on a
day-to-day basis. Atwood tells the story of three women, and how they
are drawn together because they have all been double-crossed by a mutual
female friend, Zenia. These characters seem so real that in some cases
they are reminiscent of actual acquaintances. The male characters in
The Robber Bride, however, are dull ...

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each other. The character Roz constantly runs into problems
in the business world. “It’s complicated, being a woman boss. Women
don’t look at you and think Boss. They look at you and think Woman, as
in Just another one, like me, and where does she get off?”
The female characters do not “come across as more emblematic than
real.” as Timson suggests. Charis decides how her day is going to be by
swinging a crystal above her head. This behavior reminds me of an
acquaintance who once tried to lecture me on the power of ‘crystal
vibrations’. This may be because Atwood’s characters are stereotypes
and everyone is bound to know someone like them. However, this realism
provides common ground between the reader and the novel, which makes it
easier to read.
As Male characters in The Robber Bride are very poor and have absolutely
no depth. Or as Timson put it “…and male characters who, it can be
argued, ...

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Added: 8/18/2008 10:41:30 PM
Category: English
Type: Free Paper
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