Half-Hanged Mary Poem Summary and Analysis | LitCharts
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it’s a metaphor for how misogyny erases women’s sense of self by stereotyping them as sinners or saints, witches or wives. Mary refuses to give in to such erasure. The men’s violence erodes the women’s solidarity: r Margaret Atwood's tale of patriarchal cruelty and powerful transformation. Unmarried
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- it’s a metaphor for how misogyny erases women’s sense of self by stereotyping them as sinners or saints, witches or wives. Mary refuses to give in to such erasure.
- The men’s violence erodes the women’s solidarity:
- r Margaret Atwood's tale of patriarchal cruelty and powerful transformation.
- Unmarried, skilled, property-owning Mary presents a challenge to the patriarchal order of her small Puritan village in Massachusett
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