The novel Alias Grace is about Grace Marks, a woman who was involved in the murders of Thomas Kinnear and Nancy Montgomery. The story is placed in the year of 1859 where she works in the Governor’s house while still an inmate. She is treated kindly around the house but is treated poorly around the prison. One day Grace is put in a room with Doctor Simon Jordan; she is not comfortable to be in the room with him alone because she is afraid he may be one of those doctors who cut people open. After a
When placed into situations that are beyond a person’s control, it ultimately takes part in shaping who they are as a person. In the novel Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood, there are many examples how environment shapes human character and influences morality leading to rash decision-making. Some of these examples include different factors of development that appear as a child such as from a friend with no morals, aid in the raising of a child from a figure like a mother or isolation such as being
Atwood’s Alias Grace takes on the incredible story of six-teen year old Grace Marks. Grace was tried for the murder of her employer and his mistress, all the while facing an insurmountable battle of undocumented and overlooked social abuse, hatred, and oppression – an all too common attitude towards women. Atwood leads the reader through a sympathetic maze of Grace’s journey leaving the reader unsure just how to feel; was she a scorned young woman who took out her rage on two innocent victims, or