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Loss of Identity in Margaret Atwood?s The Handmaid?s Tale and Margaret Laurence's The Fire-Dwellers


The protagonists in Margaret Atwood?s The Handmaid?s Tale and Margaret Laurence?s The Fire-Dwellers are very different in character.  However, both of these women lose their identity due to an outside influence.  In each of the books, we see the nature of the lost identity, the circumstances which led to this lost identity, and the consequences which occurred as a result of this lost identity. 

            In The Handmaid?s Tale our main character, Offred, has her whole world stolen away by the government of Gilead.  This new society is sexually repressed and is founded by religious extremists.  Women are only used to produce children, and they have no rights at all in the new world of Gilead.

            In The Fire Dwellers our main character, Stacey MacAindra, has been thrown into a life of responsibility.  She has an uncommunicative husband who means well, but shows her no love, as well as four children who she feels are being ruined by her every action.  ... [to view the full essay now, purchase below]

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