Historical Trauma in William Styron’s Sophie’s Choice
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William Styron's novel Sophie's Choice is epitomization of the atrocity, horror
and suffering experienced by the principal female character in different locations of
the world-Nazi Concentration Camp, Poland War and American South.Because of
the memory of the inhumanity and brutality as well as agony she faced in the past, she
becomes traumatized in that the reverberated pathetic experience causes her mental
injury. Presenting the protagonist Sophie's traumatic experience as that of Jews,
Styron in this novel, examines the agony of scarred and victimized holocaust survivor
Sophie, who ultimately commits suicide.