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Going through Trauma in Sophie Andrews’ Scarred

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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This paper intends to show how literary narrative could be used as a tool to represent traumatic and post-traumatic experiences. This is done through applying the basic principles of trauma theory to Sophie Andrews Scarred (2008), a novel that shows how Sophie, a young adopted girl has been sexually abused by her adoptive father. The study aims at showing how literary narrative is used as a tool not only to highlight how the tormentor misuses his authority and domination over the victim, but also, how the victim could be negatively influenced by the traumatic experience he/she undergoes. To do this, the paper divides the heroine's life to three phases: pre-traumatic setting, traumatic experience, and post-traumatic stress disorders. In the first section, the paper surveys the unjust atmosphere in which the heroine lives. In the second stage, the paper shows how this shaky realm discussed earlier leads to the antagonist's malpractices. Eventually, in the last phase, the proposed paper shows how these malpractices and traumatic experiences cause the post-traumatic disorders from which the heroine complains. Thus, the paper shows how literary narrative could be used to represent both the traumatic experiences and the post-traumatic disorders clearly and vividly.

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10.21608/kgef.2022.266844

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Trauma, Traumatic experience, Post-traumatic stress disorder, trauma narrative, Scarred

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Mary

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Shaker

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مدرس منتدب فى الأکاديمية العربية. فرع القرية الذکية

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marygamal_84@yahoo.com

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القاهره

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54

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1

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32228

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2022-01-01

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2022-10-23

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2022-01-01

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1

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23

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1110-8142

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2735-3311

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مجلة کلية الآداب . حلوان

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Going through Trauma in Sophie Andrews’ Scarred

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23 Jan 2023