Margaret Atwood Novel Dream Art,

Margaret Atwood is a famous authoress in Canada in the twentieth century, who composed many excellent works from female perspective. Dream, which becomes one of the novel artistic features of Atwood, is impenetrated in all of her novels. Based on the relationship between dream and reality, it can be roughly classified into three kinds. They are ominous dreams, hagridden dreams and atypical dreams. Each type respectively appears Atwood's unique character and unsurpassed advantage, which lie in structuring novels by dreams, showing dreamer's potential mentation, and presenting gothic art feature.In terms of structuring novels, dreams propel the plots because of its function of advancing the plot narrate, and dispel the premonition because of its narrative attitude and the difference between the time of narration and story. On the one hand, Atwood makes up narrative omissions because of first-person narrative perspective so that the plots can be more complete and the dreamer's imaginations can be more distinctive. On the other hand, Atwood conveys the thinking about survival by repetitively narrating significant events in dreams.As to representing the dreamer's mind, Margaret Atwood tries to use dreams to expose potential characteristics of dreamer as antecessors, so that dreams can represent females' existence dilemma in the male-dominated society. She also reveals the dreamer psychological change by using a series of dreams as her character. The psychological course about self discovery of the heroines in Atwood's novels is in accordance with phased changes about dreaming or don't, which based on memory characteristics of dream, attitude differences between different gender about dream, and subtle changes about the same dreamer's dream in different periods.In terms of creating gothic style, dreams become one of the most important manners to show Atwood's unique bewildering, hazy mysterious gothic style. Dream's characteristic that could condense, transfer and replace things characters was used to highlight the fantasticism of gothic elements in her novels. Also she contrasts light and shadow, brightness and darkness to construct its gothic environmental features. Meanwhile, Atwood puts the supernatural elements that are also the indispensable factors in gothic into dreams, such as occult events and ghosts. All of these elements form a multi grotesque and terrorist feeling by dream's unreason and mutation. In order to emphasize the truth of dreams, Atwood makes the tracks of mind in dreams can be found easily by transforming common things between real life and dreams naturally, stressing the same emotions in dreams and describing the formation and disappearance about external stimulates in dreams. Besides, she also confuses what is real in original space time and depicts the realistic details to balance dream's fantasticism. In this way, the novels could be enveloped in the proper gothic atmosphere form beginning to the end. Using dreams art, not only deepened Atwood's novel theme but also endued her works with a unique style.