Multiple Selves and Otherness: Gothic Identity in Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride
Multiple Selves and Otherness: Gothic Identity in Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride

Summary/Abstract: This paper examines how Margaret Atwood’s three female protagonists of the novel ‘The Robber Bride’ (1993) try to overcome the ghosts of their pasts by coping with their troubled childhood and youth and the surprising ‘resurrection’ of their archenemy, Zenia. The aim of this paper is to illustrate how the three women deal, both individually and together, with the shadows of their past and gain a life-long friendship in the process of piecing together their fragmented self and accepting their complex identity. The main characters deal with issues of identity in the attempt to heal the deep and painful wounds of the past, to become powerful, more independent, and to get over the bad experiences through which their families, partners, and antagonist have put them.

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