The Robber Bride

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Characterization is a literary device that is used step by step in literature to highlight and explain the details about a character in a story. It has been used as a literary tool for about five hundred years. Older forms of Literature were focused more on the plot rather than the characters. The usage of characterization in Literature became popular after scholars began to consider psychology as a scientific field around the 19th century, which is why readers started getting interested in “why the characters acted a certain way”, “how did the character react” and so on. Authors use characterization to give substance to their characters, they show the characters’ motivation, and allow the readers to feel with the characters. …show more content…
The Robber Bride is one of the literary works of Margaret Atwood. Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet and literary critic. Atwood’s work mostly portrays female characters dominated by Patriarchy. She was exposed to the Grimms Fairy tales at a very young age. Her novel “The Robber Bride is inspired by one of the Grimms fairytale stories, “The Robber Bridegroom”, which was about an evil male character luring women to his place to murder them.
Atwood began to be interested in creating a bad and/or evil female character after encountering this children’s rhyme “There was a little girl Who had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead; When she was good, she was very, very good, And when she was bad, she was horrid!”. She was teased by her brother at a young age by this rhyme, he would make “very, very good” sound much more worst than “horrid” .During Victorians time, this rhyme described the female's behaviour accurately since the Angel/Whore split was so popular during the …show more content…
This extract shows us how Atwood writes her novels, that her novels are not merely just fiction, they have a sense of truth in them. They are built from historical event that occurred. There is some kind of truth to the robber
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