Violence Women and Trauma in the Selected Novels of Tahmima Anam and Monica Ali

Abstract

Violence could be defined as inhuman, mercilessly adopted act to exercise or newlinethrash unlawfully towards people, property and / or personal belongings, causing or newlineintending to damage or injure. The proposed research aims to examine violence as newlineviolation of personality and the psychological impact of violence causing increase in newlinethe intensity of suffering. But the variety of violence they undergo take root to newlineculminate in many forms. They happen to perform their activities with a sense to newlinepreserve their identity, culture, relationships and economic stand. Most often these newlineattributes shape them or rather distort their image depending on the intensity of pain. newlineIt is in this process of examination that the researcher will also analyze socio, newlinepolitical, economic, and psychological issues related to both men and women that are newlineseemingly the cause of violence. Violence does not mean something that culminates newlinewith disastrous effects causing damage to living and property alone. It is also an act of newlineharm causing people with severe loss both physically and psychologically. While newlinemaking an attempt that takes a great deal of interest to study and to prevent the notion newlineof violence many research studies have been evolved profusely over the past several newlinedecades. Hence, the researcher would take an in depth study to examine the factors newlinerelated to violence, women and trauma in the selected novels of Tahmima Anam and newlineMonica Ali. All the novels that are chosen for research are based on the sufferings newlineexperienced by women and the degree of sufferings one undergoes in the form of newlinetrauma that implies great strength in the inner formation of self towards identity newlinebuilding. Thus this research will analyze the impact of violence on the society when newlineconfronted by both men and women. newline