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Abstract
This study aims at pointing out the main factors that motivate women to search for their identity in selected novels by Margaret Atwood through four chapters. The first chapter reviews a brief overview of Canadian literature and its most important features, and the writer Margaret Atwood, her most important works and the techniques of her writing. The second chapter discusses the attempt of Marian’s fiancé in the Edible Woman, to control her personality and the image of her friends as a stereotypical woman makes her fears arise. She passes through a journey of disorders until she can recover her identity. In the third chapter, Joan in Lady Oracle is so isolated and alienated that she sees her friends, parents and husband, as strangers totally. The novel discusses problems in family relationships and the influence of childhood on adulthood. In the fourth chapter, the protagonist in Cat’s Eye, Elaine, suffers from a dilemma in her social identity, where she has difficulties in learning to socialize with other girl children because of their bullying. By learning to deal with them, she learns to enjoy her present and she accepts the bad things that have happened to her and accepts bad things she has done to others. Understanding of these actions helps her to reject victimization and recognize herself and her abilities. These novels are identity quests and her protagonists are questers. They do not compromise with life and always try to give it a better shape.