چکیده مقاله
This paper considers Franz Kafka's 1924 1883 short story; In the Penal Colony 1919 in the light of the theory of trauma based on Cathy Caruth's 1955 critical views Trauma can create a psychic wound on the victim's mind that forces him or her to respond psychologically Based on some traumatic envents that some individuals experience they get traumatized and their identities are affected by such traumatic effects Thus they behave abnormally and out of control In the Penal Conoly , the characters' identities are traumatized and are diagnoized interms of post traumatic stress disorder which are the symptoms of a traumatic experience For instance, the condemend Man, the Traveller, and the solider are caught in a system in which they suffer from the negative and distressing image of themselves The Traveller is traumatized by watching the shatterd body of the officer and this can traumatize his identity In Kafa's story, all the characters are punished without any reason In fact, they are trapped in a labyrinth in which there is no way out and they are condemend to death The characters seem to struggle for survival to prevent death, but the more they try, the less they are successful Kafa himself experiences all the traumas, including individual trauma, historical trauma, and cultural trauma Similary, in The Penal Colony , the characters experience individual trauma that ruins their identities as much as possible The island that is depicted in the story is like a labyrnith that the characters are traumatized individually Therefore, Kafa can portray his traumas that he experiences by the World Wars in his short story, In the Penal Colony
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نویسندگان
Ziba Roshanzamir
Ph D Student, Department of English Language and Literature, Borujerd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Borujerd, Iran
شیوه ارجاع
Roshanzamir, Ziba,1403,Traumatized Identities in Franz Kafka's “In the Penal Colony,19th International Conference on Language , Literature , Culture and History Studies
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