Bodily Harm (novel)

Bodily Harm is a novel by Margaret Atwood. It was first published by McClelland and Stewart in 1981.

Bodily Harm
First edition cover
AuthorMargaret Atwood
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish
PublisherMcClelland & Stewart
Publication date
1981
Media typePrint (Hardcover, Paperback)
ISBN0-7704-2256-X (first edition)
OCLC257154527
Preceded byLife Before Man 
Followed byThe Handmaid's Tale 

Plot introduction

The novel's protagonist Rennie Wilford is a travel reporter. After surviving breast cancer, she travels to the fictional Caribbean island St. Antoine to carry out research for an article. The island, however, is on the brink of revolution. Rennie tries to stay away from politics, but is drawn into events through her romance with Paul, a key player in the uprising, and ends up in a survival struggle.

Themes

A major theme of Bodily Harm is power.

As in many of the heroines of Atwood's novels, Rennie is addicted to negative relationships. She feels "hooked like a junkie" to her relationship with Jake, and becomes unable to distinguish between sadomasochism and genuine aggression.[1]

gollark: I complained to my MP when the government did some particularly egregious thing... complaining about end to end encryption on the news again, or something... and got a response back... from some random minister... by letter... two weeks later... which did not address anything I said and was related only in that my email and their response were both vaguely about encryption.
gollark: Er, act. Not bill.
gollark: *cough*investigatorypowersbill*cough*
gollark: It seems to mostly be spying here. The UK really likes that.
gollark: I ran dnscrypt-proxy ever since some ISP organization here complained about DNS over HTTPS.

References
  1. Howells, Coral Ann (2006). The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge University Press. pp. 46–50. ISBN 978-0-521-83966-2.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)


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