Psychological trauma of ‘Brida’ in God Help the Child by Toni Morrison

Abstract

This present research work undertakes an analysis of the representation of childhood trauma in Toni Morrison’s “God Help the Child” by drawing attention to the characters’ past experiences of distress and anguish and their weight upon the present. It mostly focuses on the examination of the psychology of personality subjected to babyhood molestation and misuse, take advantage of their deficiency in nurturing sound postures with their environment and the persons nearby them. The work attests to the physical and emotional oppression worked out upon children all around the world and strives to investigate alternative modes of thought and behavior in dealing with children. The study resides upon Judith Herman’s theoretical intuitions into the phenomenon of trauma centering on the idea of intrusion and marginal character disorder resulting from disturbing experiences.