Open Access
American Research Journal of English and Literature
ISSN (Online): 2378-9026
DOI: 10.46568/arjel
Abjected Women and Feminine Subjectivity in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale and Kate Chopin’s the Awakening
Abstract
This study illuminates the lives of the abjected women in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Kate Chopin’s
The Awakening, as they undergo as liminal process and how they are able to get feminine subjectivity in the course of
their lives. This study also sheds light on how women are being stereotyped, treated, in the patriarchal society. While
focusing on The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and The Awakening by Kate Chopin, this study further addresses
the different ways women are able to acquire subjectivity for themselves and by doing so are able to create a new identity
for themselves that does not align with the stereotypes and norms created by society that favours men as compared to
women
