Therapeutic Impact of Narrating Trauma in Mary, a Fiction and Maria or the Wrongs of Woman
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2015
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Faculty of English
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This research makes a study of Therapeutic Impact of Narrating Trauma in Mary, a Fiction and
Maria Or the Wrongs of Woman.Mary Wollstonecraft, a leading feminist writer, has used her
fictional writings as means of therapy to manage her trauma.The writings, which have a goal to
lessen the pain of trauma, do not only document the trauma of Mary Wollstonecraft but also
document the trauma of women of her society.The documentation of personal trauma in parallel
to collective trauma has helped Mary Wollstonecraft to figure out the evil face of her society
towards females. The relocation of trauma in sociocultural contexts of her time justifies the
traumatic experience of women of contemporary society in many cases is imposed one.Her
desire to locate her trauma in particular and trauma of her sex in general in sociocultural contexts
of her time helps her readers to understand the society and its components as the primary sources
for any woman to be traumatized. The continuous imposition and regulation of male’s ideology
without considering the women in the society compels women to pass through various
constructed events of trauma. Domestic violence, betrayal, miscalculation of emotion of women
and mistrust in attachmentsare the result of indifference of the contemporary English Society
towards women which constructa way for women to be traumatized. Mary Wollstonecraft, who
becomes the victim of male’s cruelty and whose voice is continuously silenced using the social
laws and social institutions,takes the help of writing to narrate, preserve, and manageher
experience of traumas. MakingMary andMaria her mouthpieceinMary, a FictionandMaria
Or the Wrongs of Womanrespectively, Mary Wollstonecraft transmutes her personal trauma in
Mary, a FictionandMaria Or the Wrongs of Womanby making an appeal to make a bond
among the victims of trauma to lessen the pain of trauma and to reform the society where they
are living in.
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Fictional writings, Personal trauma