The Robber Bride
What is the theme in The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood?
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There is the perennial battle of the sexes institutionalized within the power alignments of patriarchal societies: among the palindromes Tony likes to create, the most perfectly symmetrical states "Raw sexes war." Male betrayal of women becomes epidemic in these pages given the fundamental weak-mindedness of men before the imperatives of sexual desire.