Sexual Assault as the Cause of Trauma in V. Llosa's The Feast of the Goat
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Mario Vargas Llosa'sThe Feast of the Goatattempts to depict the cruel and
brutal dictatorship of the ruler which creates trauma in the mind of people. The
protagonist of the novel, Urania Cabral who was forced to leave the country is the real
victim of trauma. She, due to sexual assault on her, left the country and lived the life
of exile thereafter. Especially, this sexual assault was caused because of her father's
greed for the political post. Llosa, in the text, tries to picturize how Urania gets
traumatized and how she seeks a medium togetrid of it. During her exile, she always
gets haunted by the memory of past terrible events, evidences of which can be found
in her own narration. The memory of the past events,i.e. sexual attack on her leads
her to depart from the country and traumatization.