Consciousness of Identity and Existence in William Styron's Sophie's Choice and Margaret at wood's The Handmaid's Tale
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In the novelsSophie's ChoiceandThe Handmaid's Tale, William Styron and Margaret
Atwood depict female protagonists as the victimized suffers of patriarchal subjugative
ideology and their chronic sexual harrassment which problemitizes the identity and
existence of females under the construction of phallocentric practice of patriarchy.
Despite the female protagonists' continuous struggle for the emancipatory identity and
existence along with the transgression in different localities because of their
consciousness about their situation, Sophie's and Offred's traumatic experience in
patriarchal autonomy with subversive pictorioration and sexual deterioration harsen the
existence and identity of females.