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Introspection
(UMT, Lahore, 2021) Ahsan Ali
Literature has a significant impact on human life, and its language has the ability to convey the inner world of humans. Memories, retrospection, introspection, foreshadowing, and flashbacks that are colored by the wound, trauma, and pain of gender disparity have a lot of space in literature. Now is the time to create the plot of fear, and Margaret Atwood has done an excellent job of raising these problems. In her writings, she criticizes the social, cultural, and political ties that bind a female character. In her works, she aspires to achieve self-awareness, identity, and self-confidence while depicting the sufferings and misery of female characters. This research focuses on the protagonist's childhood relationship, victimization, alienation, and rehabilitation in Margaret Atwood's novel Cat's Eye. This paper applies postcolonial theories of othering and cultural resistance to Elaine's sagacity of displacement and alienation. The emphasis then turns to Elaine's character development, with Abraham's objective approach serving as the theoretical structure. The method of research used in this analysis is library research. As a result, this research concludes that Cat's Eye reflects othering and character growth throughout her life. Finally, she developed into an independent young woman who, as an adult, let go of her past.