scholarly journals Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Hanif’s Red Birds

2021 ◽  
Vol VI (IV) ◽  
pp. 59-67
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ejaz Khan ◽  
Aamir Shehzad ◽  
Shamaila Roohi
Keyword(s):  
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Psychological Approach ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

The present study endeavors to analyze the symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Muhammad Hanif’s Red Birds, focusing on the depiction of PTSD felt by major characters in then ovel. The psychological approach along with a descriptive qualitative method, has been used for evaluating the signs of PTSD in the backdrop of Raymond Benedict Flannery's theory. The significance of this study is to appraise the individuals about the hazardous outcomes of trauma. If trauma shows the symptoms of arousal, intrusive, and avoidance, the result is a post-traumatic stress disorder. Using this mechanism, the novel has been analyzed, and then the relevant data has been categorized according to the tenets of the theory. The study discovers the required symptoms of PTSD,i.e., intrusive, avoidance, and arousal, experienced by the characters. Mother Dear develops more intrusive symptoms as compared to arousal and avoidance symptoms, whereas arousal symptoms are more influenced by Momo.

scholarly journals Into the Darkest Corner: The Importance of Addressing Factor-Based Particularity in Relation to Domestic Violence Experiences in Post-Modern Literary Theory

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Reem Atiyat
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Learned Helplessness ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Male Domination ◽  
Post Traumatic

This paper investigates how a survivor of a violent marital relationship could awaken and take positive counteraction against her oppressive husband, rather than remaining entrapped in a state of ‘learned helplessness’. The central contribution of this paper lies in highlighting particularity rather than sameness when investigating how oppression and male domination could function as factors that trigger positive counteraction and lead to the liberation of the silenced protagonist in Elizabeth Haynes’ novel Into the Darkest Corner. The model highlighted for the purpose of examination is Catherine, the protagonist of Elizabeth Haynes’ novel Into the Darkest Corner. The paper mainly focuses on addressing two questions ‘What are the protagonist’s violence experiences?’ and ‘What are the factors that served to reinforce and prolong the protagonist’s oppressive marriage?’. The struggle of the protagonist to put an end to her abusive marriage, and how she managed to overpower her post-traumatic stress disorder experience constitute the focal point of this paper, and are explored from a feminist psychoanalytical perspective, a task that has not been addressed in the available literature on domestic violence in relation to feminist and psychoanalytic criticism up to date. In order to investigate these aspects in the novel, this paper draws on the views of post-modern feminist literary theory. This literary approach is crucial to highlighting the gender-based inequality imposed on the protagonist by her abusive husband throughout the novel. The analytical approach followed in this paper is that of thematic analysis. The paper mainly highlights the recurrent themes of physical violence and post-traumatic stress disorder. Then, the paper examines the content of the novel to support the argument about the association between post-traumatic stress disorder and liberation. Thus, three main issues are addressed: Domestic violence types and definitions, feminist theoretical views in relation to male domination, and notions of post-traumatic stress disorder in relation to liberation in feminist post-modern literary criticism. The main argument in this paper is that post-traumatic stress disorder is not an introductory psychological phase that paves the way for learned helplessness. Rather, it is a state imposed by male domination and control that could be challenged, controlled and directed to lead to liberation from male authority and oppression with the availability of proper assistance.

scholarly journals CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF THE PROTAGONIST’S WORRY IN DANIELLE STEEL’S NOVEL FAMILY TIES

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-69
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ikhsan ◽  
Susi Ekalestari
Keyword(s):  
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Human Life ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Post Traumatic

This research analyses the causes and effects of the protagonist’s worry in Danielle Steel’s novel Family Ties,  a story of woman, Annie Ferguson, who must become a mother in her bachelorette. She always worries about the future of her sister’s children. This research applied the theory of worry proposed by Graham (2006), who said that worry is “prominent feature of most anxiety-based disorders including generalized anxiety disorder, specific phobias obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder“. The research is completed by using descriptive qualitative method in which the finding is presented in the form of description. The data of this study is obtained from the novel Family Ties by Danielle Steel.  The analysis finds that the dominant causes of the protagonist’s worry come from her nephews’ life which affects her life negatively. The effects of her worry will be a lesson for human life because every human being certainly has worry feeling in their life in certain situations.

scholarly journals AGORAPHOBIA PROBLEM OF ANNA FOX IN THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW BY A.J. FINN

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-82
Author(s):  
Suarniti Gusti Ayu Made Rai
Keyword(s):  
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Scientific Writing ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Note Taking ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Post Traumatic

The title of this scientific writing is Agoraphobia Problem of Anna Fox in The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn. The aims of this research were to find out the agoraphobia problem experienced by Anna Fox found in the novel and the influences of agoraphobia toward herself and her surroundings. The data are collected by reading the novel repeatedly and using the note-taking technique to find out the statements that related to the topic. Based on the result of the analysis, it is found that Anna Fox’s agoraphobia problem because of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The disease influences herself and her surroundings by ruins her body because consuming a lot of drugs, made her lose her job, made her have a bad temperament, depression, and made her insecure.

scholarly journals Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Don Delillo's Falling Man

2015 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Hazim Adnan Hashim ◽  
Ruzbeh Babaee
Keyword(s):  
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
The North ◽  
Personal Level ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
Falling Man

This article looks at 9/11 trauma and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Don DeLillo’s Falling Man. This asserts that 9/11 has brought about not only political, social, economic and cultural consequences but also caused victims on the personal level. This paper demonstrates how Keith, the protagonist of the novel, has been affected by 9/11. In other words, this article examines Keith’s traumatic experience of witnessing his close friend’s death, the falling man, and escaping his own impending death in the north tower and how these horrible scenes affect Keith’s perception of self. Eventually, this article concludes that DeLillo's Falling Man presents the reality of what the survivors have experienced during and after the attacks, and the complication of trauma and PTSD that turns their world topsy-turvy.

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