Lady Oracle By Margaret Atwood Analysis

Imagine we travel through time, where gender equality did not exist or maybe they didn't apply it. How hard it was for woman to survive in an environment were a man controls everything? If you are a man, I invite you to change of shoes and take the position of a woman. Would you be that woman? Who endure any humiliation? I hope your answer is NO. Nowadays we are still having problem of gender equality, sadly I am not a super hero who can go and change this problem, but I will incite you to continue reading, so maybe at the end you will have a better idea of why we should counter the problem of female equality.

Base on my experience as a female, I understand that for many women the simple act of showing to the world, who are they, is complicated.
Therefore, the author presents us the position of women in an authoritarian male society. It should be noted, that the novel discusses how the ladies needed to follow certain rules, for example the role of the women in the home or the women image. Among all these situations, the protagonist starts looking for her true
She describes her dad as a stranger and dangerous person: “…When the time came, a stranger walked through the door, kissed my mother and then me” (Atwood, 65). The protagonist expresses clearly that she didn't grow with a father figure. Possibly the lack of attention from her father affect the behavior of the main character, leading a bad relationship with her mother. Now, referring to her mother, she describes her as a intense woman, who follows the rules of society: “ My mother didn't want her living room to be different from everyone else’s, or even much better. She wanted them to be acceptable, the same as everybody else’s…”(Atwood, 67). Practically, the situation of her parent’s was very strange; this is why the mother pretends to have the perfect family. Since the relationship with her parents was not as good, Joan decides to go with his aunt. Sadly, months later she die. The little fortune of her aunt was inherited to Joan. At this point, the main character decides to move from her horrible life of norms and pretending’s, to a new life (new country, new look and even new name). With all this, as I reader I can deduce that the author pretend to emphasize that all the problems Joan is facing are result of her traumatic childhood experiences. For example, Joan was not able to make her own decisions during her childhood; therefore it remained in her adulthood, when