Betrayal and Silence: A Study of Moral and Familial Decay in Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin

Abstract

The novel sheds light on the death of a young woman in the midst of deaths that are still and will continue to be caused by harassment, marginalized, betrayal, sorrow and remorse. So, Margret focuses on the problems befall society especially woman. She does not give a solution to these problems, but tries to raise readers' awareness through her novels, especially that of women through her literary march. She tries to tell women, that they should seek freedom in order to free themselves from the oppression of the male world, and that their priority is freedom and autonomous. The novel does not depict a happy couple but shows how love is doomed to failure and fails due to issues such as constraints of social norms, sexual discrimination, mutual betrayal between husbands’ and separation through war and death. The protagonists move in the same circle, due to sometimes they themselves are the oppressed and sometimes they are the oppressors. It is a novel of futility, the futility in souls, bodies and morals between relatives and also strangers The novel shows the disintegration of families, especially Chase’s family. The article draws on feminist critique, psychoanalytic analysis to promote social justice and equality. The paper also addresses the confiscation of women's rights and the coercion of women to be blind and silenced by male dominance, and how women can have the same rights as men. And how to change the status of women. They had only a limited ability to act on their own. Because of what Margret had faced in her life, and because of the circumstances she had experienced in her youth and in her marriage experiment. Laura had nothing that belonged to her, only her soul, which took to the sky when she committed suicide, and her body, which she shared with other people, sometimes with her consent and sometimes by force or blackmail. The article attempts to explain the influential part of the novel as a critical review of the masculinist system that constrain role of woman and her voice. The paper depends on thematic study, that focuses on analyzing, discussing and explaining