%0 Journal Article %T The Levinasian Responsible Subject’s Breaching the Face’s Command: An Inversion of the Master-Slave Relationship in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy %J Critical Literary Studies %I University of Kurdistan %Z 2676-699X %A Bezdoode, Zakarya %A Monfared Saeed, Negar %D 2022 %\ 03/01/2022 %V 4 %N 1 %P 55-77 %! The Levinasian Responsible Subject’s Breaching the Face’s Command: An Inversion of the Master-Slave Relationship in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy %K Subject %K Post-Apocalyptic %K Levinas’s Ethics of the Other %K Margaret Atwood %K Utopia %R 10.34785/J014.2022.400 %X In accordance with Emmanuel Levinas’s ethics, the interconnection between the subject and its Other is equated with the master-slave relationship, which is not by any means absolute. This article aims at illustrating an oscillating state of master-and-slave relation with regard to Levinas’s ethics in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy. The Face of the Other becomes a ‘poor master’ who needs help and yet gives a serious order to the subject, one that he should obey. Subsequently, the Other deprives the subject of his/her wealth, thus overcoming its own poverty; therefore, the Other as a ‘poor master’ and the subject as a ‘wealthy subject’ constitute an ethical relationship. Founding the argument on the above-mentioned Levinasian principles, this paper approaches the altruistic intentions of Atwood’s post-apocalyptic characters, and inspects how the post-apocalyptic world of her MaddAddam trilogy is ultimately orientated towards, if not also predicting, a return to now bygone humanistic, ethical and communal society. %U https://cls.uok.ac.ir/article_62025_02ab4bf2b57f8d011de0e1451e7768fc.pdf