The Underground Images In Atwood's The Heart Goes Last

The works of Margaret Atwood usually reveal all kinds of social problems.Her relatively new novel,The Heart Goes Last(2015),has unfolded a near future American society affected by financial crisis with Atwood's unique humorous yet satiric tone.Completely collapsed social order,vanished morality and ethics,rampant science and technology abuse,all of these have put Americans in peril.This thesis aims at dissecting the underground images widely applied in the novel,which would provide a perspective to ponder Atwood's profound thinking of modern society.In the first part,brief introductions to The Heart Goes Last,underground images as well as the novel's domestic and foreign researches are made.The main body of this thesis consists of three parts.Chapter one is mainly about the dissection of underground image in the form of memory,which is divided into individual memory and collective memory.Chapter two is mainly about the underground image in the form of prison image.In this part,prison not only includes the core part of Positron Prison Project but also the probe into death and shadows self.In chapter three,the significance of underground images in this novel is revealed.The heavy use of the underground image in the novel has revealed the social problems such as alienated modern people,anarchy and plutocracy in America.In the end,the thesis has made a summary of all kinds of interrelationships in The Heart Goes Last and gets a conclusion that Atwood shows her sense of crisis.