Therapeutic Value of Traumatic Experience in Wollstonecraft’s Maria or The Wrongs of Women
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The present research on Mary Wollstonecraft’s Maria or The Wrongs of Women explores the
traumatic experience that the two female characters, Maria and Jemima has gone through with the
residual memories of the series of insults, humiliations, deprivations, beatings and fatal or near-fatal
disasters they have faced throughout their life under the oppressive patriarchy. Drawing upon the
conceptual framework of trauma theory manly developed by Cathy Crauth and Drominic LaCapra who
stress on the therapeutic nature of drama theory, the project attempts to excavate how the oral and
written expression of those traumatic events helps in getting redemption from the traumatic psychology
they have been living with.