Society, Self and Alienation: Woman in the Fiction of Margaret Laurence

Abstract

After the Second World War the theme of alienation has become one of the prominent themes in world literature. Canadian literature is no exception. In modern age, mostly people are, “doomed to suffer the corrosive impact of alienation, which manifests itself variously in the form of generation gap, the credibility loss or gap. The compartmentalization of life, the stunning of personal development and the conspicuous absence of sense of meaningfulness of life, and so on” (Pathak 12).