Analysis On Margaret Atwood’s Rewrite Of Myths And Fairy Tale Motif

In the late twentieth century,with the prosperity of postmodernism,the western cultureresearchers put forward the question of traditional classical text from the point of view,such as，region, nation, race, gender. In these misgivings about the classic text, feminism criticism andpostcolonial criticism are the most noteworthy. In the drive of the project named "restatementthe myth", a batch of famous scholars, writers all over the world devoted themselves to rewritingthe classic text,based on social reality, combined with their unique style of writing characteristicsunder the condition of contemporary context.As one of the most significant writers in the project of the myth restatement, MargaretAtwood could caught the contemporary society and the modern world’s problems with a kind ofdeep thinking mode of literature in the text. Through the three point of view of gender relations,ethnic identity and construction, and spiritual care,she was keen to rewrite the mythology classicthe Odyssey and fairy tales motif "Blue beard".As a result, the creation works "The Penelopial"and "Blue beard’s egg"came out, ultimately she successfully delivered the alert voice to theCanadian culture and political life issues.Both at home and from abroad, Researches about Margaret Atwood have been impressive.Among these results,FuJun’s "Margaret Atwood’s research" was known as a model.This thesisaims to fulfill the study about the works’ details,by taking Atwood’s two rewriteen texts forexample,on the basis of drawing on others’ excellent achievements and taking full use of my textreading ability.This article tries to analysis the texts "The Penelopial" and "Blue beard’s egg" from thefeminist perspective, nationalism perspective and the point of view of the humanities spiritcare,on the basis of straightening out the causes and significances of rewriting the classictexts,then expounds those concrete details of rewriting,finally captures the unique narrativepoints.As a representative of the Canadian literature, Atwood based on the relationship betweenmen and women, but thinking of mankind living condition; based in Canada but also pay attentionto all national coutries all around the world in the heart of the humanistic spirit care.