mind of the narrator. According to Rigney, Barbara H. book Madness and Sexual Politics ―’The protagonist sees the heron as symbolic of her own psychological death’ (100). She feels deep disgust towards killing of the bird and compares the same act with the oppression and harassment of the women. Women‘s association with fertility and men‘s with environment abuse serves as a metaphor of the violation of women by men. She realizes that no other being can help her in discovering her real self and, therefore, she turns to nature. Ironically enough it was only when she identified herself with the damaged landscape that foregoes her to discover herself. She becomes part of the landscape but prior to this, she discards her marriage ring, her name …show more content…
Brooks Bouson argues in book Brutal Choreographies: Oppositional Strategies and Narrative Design in the Novels of Margaret Atwood “challenges the privileging of masculinity as the site of power and knowledge.”(52) This knowledge which empowers its owners to rape nature is evil, as the narrator puts it: “if I’d turned out like the others with power I would have been evil” ( p.33).
Surfacing takes woman to the next level, examining woman as other and the harmful social ramifications that results in designating herself a weaker sex. The novel also contemplates dialectical ecofeminism, which argues that to subvert dominance is to deny essentialism. Finally, the novel posulates the women link with nature is not materialistic link but rather of a caretaker and recognisation that human fate is bound to earth. The novel examines some of the founding themes upon which ecofeminist rhetoric still growing on, this analysis sheds light on Atwood’s as an ecofeminist thinker and helps elucidate literature’s contribution to the burgeoning and continuation of this