Margaret Atwood's Novels And Sexual Politics

Sexual politics is one of the social problems usually displayed by Margaret Atwood's novel.This thesis centers on the relationship between her novels and sexual politics to investigate how she uses novels to reflect on,represent and response to sexual politics.Here are the five parts of this thesisIn the introduction part,the core research goal and the research's meanings are put forward,and then the researcher summarizes the problems in the research of somebody by reviewing the current research situation.Based on this part the author illuminates the research's idea,research's characteristics,innovation,and the research methods needed in the research,then define the key conceptions,such as "sexual politics" in this thesis.Based on the definition of the "sexual politics",in the first chapter,the author digs into Margaret Atwood's representations and her reflection on sexual politics from three major kinds of literature figures.The first ones are the two kinds of figures the "mighty male" and "submissive females",both of them are the vindicators of the patriarchy.The second are the three fictional images of the states and society,namely the monarchy,the theocratic anti-utopia and the future society under the rule of science,which illustrate the governance of patriarchy to both two sexes and the harm of the inplemental rationality to the inter-sexual relationship.The third category of the images are the bodies and clothes,the buildings and the media,this three categories are all related to daily life and given simplistic meanings,which manifest the regulations of the male,the ruling orders of the male,and the Gaze of the males.These images reflect Atwood's contemplation on sexual politics:how the dominant ion of the patriarchy is achieved.The second chapter examines the art of "rebellion" and it's response to the sexual politics.The art of rebellion is demonstrated in these following artistic forms:Retelling classics(containing retelling the literary canons,retelling the narration of Utopia and retelling the history),the "female-multi" narrative perspectives,and the "female-multi"narrative voices.They all demonstrate Atwood's critical position to the patriarchy.But this art of rebellion is both anti-male and reflexive:Apart from the criticism to the masculine discourse,Atwood also deconstructs the narrative authority of her novels herself.The third chapter analysis the art of "dialogue" and the response to sexual politics in Margaret Atwood's fictions.The dialogue is displayed as the diverse and opening narration(emboding the unreliable narrator,integrated structure of the narration and the opening ending)that different from "the patriarchism narration",and the complicated characterization of male and female,which express Margaret Atwood's destruction of the authority of female narration,the introspection on females and the tolerance to the males and even the other.The narrative art of Margaret Atwood's novels also possesses two qualities,namely pluralism and interactivity.The conclusion concludes Atwood's perceptions on gender issues,and examine the relationship between sexual relations and other binary relations.Besides,the relationship between the sexual politics and the literariness of Margaret Atwood's novel is also discussed:First of all,the author summarizes Atwood's views on sexual politics,and tries to dig out its ideological value and practical significance.Secondly,the author discusses the relationships of different binary relations between the two sexes,the self and the other,Canada and Britian/America,the human and the nature,the technology and the humanity,the author and reader.Thirdly,the author expounds on the literariness of Margaret Atwood's novel when displaying and discussing the sexual problem.