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The aim of the paper is to portray the feminist representation of Aritha Van Herk. The novelist knits the reality through her protagonists. Aritha Van Herk is a Canadian women novelist. She is one of the writers who made the Canadian literature to international standard. She is well known by her first novel, Judith. Her writings always talks about power of women and how she gives space to women in her stories. She conveys the male domination and women�s move against it. She consciously uses allegory in this novel, Judith. She compares her characters with Circe of The Odyssey and Holophernes of The Apocrypha. She brings The Old Testament and reflects the character in her novel. She describes the power and sexuality in most of the places of this novel. To convey, she takes the tool of allegory in order to illustrate to this world. Thus, this paper examines allegory which is used by Van Herk in her novel. One can understand the power of women and their representation through allegory.