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Item Reconstruction of Self in Margaret Atwood'sBodily Harm(Department of English, 2007) Panthee, DevmayaMargaret At wood's Bodily Harm focuses on the contrast between affluent thinking and brutal reality of power and sexual politics. Atwood shows this contrast with the help of the protagonist Rennie who is a lifestyle journalist. Rennie's involvement with different men and the subsequent betrayal she undergoes, gives her a lesson that she has been thrown into a nightmare that she had never around lead her to the new levels of personal and artistic awareness. With this, awareness she regains her lost 'self' thereby reconstructing it first by willing consent of being mistreated and abused and then by developing her consciousness and self anticipated. Her efforts to not only survive but also comprehend and report the swirl of events recognition.