Critique of Cosmopolitan Modernity in Atwood’s The Robber Bride
| dc.contributor.author | Joshi, Neelam | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-09-27T10:30:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-09-27T10:30:24Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Utilizing the concept of modernity and gender as conceptualized by Janet Wolff, Rita Felskiand Bonnie Kim Scott, thisresearch project concentrates on the difficulties and crises upon female characters in Atwood’s novelThe Robber Bride. Most of the female characters in The Robber Brideare deviated from their cultural root and individual identity.They feel that the temptation to follow theWesternized thought has distorted the taste and attitude of the young generation. The main character of this novel Roz belongs to the class of handmaid’s fertile women who is forced to bear children for elite, barren couples and rich people. Roz forgets her real name, cultural identity and her own background being lost in the midst ofWestern technocratic world. She comes in metropolitan American city to searchforher better life, but she becomesa puppet in thehands of different males in the city simply because she is a woman.Though modernity promises about education, development, and betterment of humanity, it deteriorates Rozin the level of apuppetrather than enlightening her. Keywords: Modernity and the City, Cosmopolitan Modernity, Multiple Modernities, Public Sphere, Private Sphere,Flanuer, Flaneuse, Dystopia | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14540/20049 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Department of English | en_US |
| dc.subject | Cosmopolitan modernity | en_US |
| dc.subject | Multiple modernities | en_US |
| dc.subject | Public sphere | en_US |
| dc.subject | Private sphere | en_US |
| dc.subject | Flanuer | en_US |
| dc.subject | Flaneuse | en_US |
| dc.subject | Dystopia | en_US |
| dc.subject | Modernity and the City | en_US |
| dc.title | Critique of Cosmopolitan Modernity in Atwood’s The Robber Bride | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
| local.academic.level | Masters | en_US |
| local.institute.title | Central Department of English | en_US |