The Role Of Zenia In The Robber Bride

Important tasks facing early “second-wave” feminist authors were torefute literary misrepresentations of females as dimensionless, to subvert pre-conceptions of objectified characters, and, of predominant importance, to creatememorable women full of complexity and character. These feminist authors strove to render their protagonists and supporting female casts with complete, full strokes; to grant them not just existence but subjectivity as well. And they succeeded.

In The Robber Bride, Atwood changes her perspective of a victimized woman as a protagonist of her novel and she introduces the character of “a strong woman”, a femme fatale who deals with women the way the male characters often act in their relationships with women. Zenia is a