ABSTRACT
Abuse, rape, revenge, and jealousy: these characterize the social relationships in Atwood's The Blind Assassin. However, it is Atwood's genius that the reader feels very much immersed in the real history of Ontario during the twentieth century. When Atwood then reflects on how politics and economics work in the novel, the reader feels as if he or she is learning how commerce was conducted at this time. The Blind Assassin is a layered text, but Atwood's purpose in layering does not seem to be to make a statement about the indeterminacy of reality in a postmodern era. Writing, then, is presented in the novel as the site of resistance in Atwood's novel. Only through this text people know the full extent of Laura's abuse or Iris abuse at the hands of Richard Griffen's threat power and how a combination of Winifred's power and Iris lack sustained the lies that have negatively impacted the lives of Aimee and Sabrina.
