A Feminine Search for a True Personality in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing

Abstract

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world” (Virginia Woolf). Gender is not an issue related to a particular sex, it is a human issue, which affects the entire society. A woman struggles to assert their self, identity and equality in a society where a woman is always considered inferior to a man. The entity „society‟ is created by man and he assigns roles to women and imposes different aspects of behaviour upon them where equality is never assured. Change is the only thing which is permanent,