Alias Grace | Grace Marks, a Victorian Woman
In this essay, Joyce Hart examines Atwood’s character, Grace Marks, as a symbol of the Victorian definition of woman.
Grace Marks, in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace, is an extremely complex creature. Her complexities, however, are intensified for many reasons. Some of her personal traits are distorted because they are recorded by unreliable sources, such as newspapers accounts, popular ballads, and people who were swayed by ulterior motives. But there are other reasons for Grace’s complexities....
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