Remembering Trauma and Surrogate Victim in Ian McEwan's Novel Saturday
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Ian McEwan’s novel Saturday has its root anchored in the anxieties, horror
and terrible sufferings of British people especially due to the threat of possible attack
from Al-Qaida group in Britain. This research explores the traumatized conditions of
innocent British who have not any direct affiliations with war. Material and other
prosperities of British have overshadowed by threat of life. Individual to community
are suffering. Henry Perowne, a neurosurgeon is ‘desirable’ to elaborate the terrible
past and become more intoxicated and overwhelmed. Some characters are totally
relived in terrible past. Characters like Theo, Daisy and Rosalind identify themselves
with traumatic victim and undergo through ‘surrogate victim’. Characters, through
verbalization and narration attempt to get rid from traumatic past.