UNCOVERING THE TRAUMATIC CHARACTERS IN TONI MORRISON’S BELOVED (SETHE & PAUL D)
Abstract
The psychological issue of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Syndromes is not restricted to individuals, but rather it is a communal issue in which the traumatic experiences of an individual is understood through its social and cultural context. For this reason, trauma and its effects become of an immense interest among writers and critics to expose the traumatic experiences for different communities in order to be healed. However, trauma is meant with memory, which proposes that when an individual is under stress, memory cant work properly. Therefore, Sandra L. Bloom (1999, (2,5)) argues that being under stress, alters the ways by which an individual can remember things, access old memories or even process new ones thereby causes a psychic trauma, which is revealed through the unexpected or unparalleled reactions for the individuals body and mind.