摘要：This paper focuses on Margaret Atwoods Life before Man to find elements of similarity between her writing and Hélène Cixouss thoughts. In order to achieve this goal, her approach, feminine writing will be discussed in detail and love as the key word of this approach will be also applied to main characters in before-mentioned novel. Here love represented as a means of transforming the relation between self and other to a none-violent one. The lack of love results to characters failure in their relations and subverts their lives to vicious circle.
