![]() ![]() ![]() Roxy has been brought up to see power linked to violence and wealth and has witnessed how men have gone to any and all lengths to attain it. A further key character is Roxy, the daughter of a criminal London gangster. She becomes Mother Eve and thus the reader is able to see how religion can be used to suppress, lead and oppress. The first is Allie, an adopted girl abused by her father. The story is told through the viewpoints of four main characters. Alderman has fun using an anagram of her own name asking the question of Neil whether he would be better to publish his book as a woman in order to avoid being labelled as "men's literature'. The Power is presented as a historical novel, written from thousands of years in the future by male writer Neil. Men are seen as the weaker sex and must pay the price of years of sexism and oppresion of women. The Power by Naomi Alderman is an intelligent and well written dystopian novel that presents a futuristic scenario where women rule the world by strength. ![]()
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