SOURCE: “Unwriting the Quest: Margaret Atwood's Fiction and The Handmaid's Tale,” in Women and the Journey: The Female Travel Experience, edited by Bonnie Frederick and Susan H. McLeod, Washington State University Press, 1993, pp. 199-215.
In the following essay, Finnell examines Atwood's subversion of traditional quest themes and narrative structures in The Handmaid's Tale. “Atwood's strategy,” writes Finnell, “challenges the notion of the quest based on the conquest of identity achievable through mastery of speech, language, and subject.”
This is a free excerpt of 77 words. There are 5,951 words (approx.
20 pages at 300 words per page) in the full critical essay.
Read the rest of this Criticism with our The Handmaid's Tale: Critical Essay by Susanna Finnell Access Pass.
