Anna Karenina to Claire Underwood: Why flawed heroines fascinate us
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami
Oct 04, 2015 01:50 PM IST
It is the women with failings and flaws, the women with all the frailty and strength that characterises the human condition, who never release their hold on our imagination.
From the moment I encountered Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the first book of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy, I fell hopelessly in love. Her punk-rock chic; her take-no-prisoners attitude; her complete refusal to let life keep her down; and, of course, her dragon tattoo: all of it added up to a fictional heroine like no other.
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