Rape Fantasies: Female Victimization
Margaret Atwoodˇ¦s ˇ§Rape Fantasiesˇ¨, a monologue of a woman discus her concern about the topic of rape, demonstrates the power struggle between men and women and how female are victimized by the society. Furthermore, Atwood talks about the importance of having ˇ§voiceˇ¨ as a power or solution to victimization.
In the story, there is an exploration of female vulnerability, and victimization in the rape fantasies. Atwood through using the voice of the first-person narrator, Estelle, to show that women have been unconsciously accept the idea, which is created by the media, that women are inferior and submissive to men. Estelle is critical to the romantic fantasies of her coworkers as they accept the stereotypes of female in their fantasies. At the beginning of the story, Estelle criticizes magazines that ˇĄthey put it ˇ§rapeˇ¨ in capital letters on the front cover, and inside they have these questionnaires like the ones they used to have about......
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