Abstract
Experiencing space in its entire manifold is extremely indispensable to human existence. Our everyday life, social and personal relations and idea of the self are somehow defined by space. However, owing to its ambiguous nature space might not always add a smooth dimension to one’s life. Analysing the mesh of complexity and anxietylying underneath the common understanding of space, an attempt is made in this paper to study Emma Donoghue’s Room.Through an examination of its central characters, Ma and Jack, the essay seeks to highlight the trauma borne out of changing spaces.
Highlights
Through an analysis of Emma Donoghue’s Room (2010) and its central characters, Jack and Ma, the paper attempts to bring out the trauma which follows from an undesired spatial change
Change as Robbie Gilligan suggests, “... arises not just from crisis, nor just from conscious intention or effort: change may arise from chance.” (Gilligan 15), and might produce a sense of anxiety in an individual who might or might not always be prepared to embrace it in its entirety
Since human beings apart from being social animals are as Robert T.Tally Jr. believes ‘spatial animals’, that is, they operate in space as much as they operate within their social environment, “use space, make sense of their various spatial and social relations” (Tally 16), their familiarity to
Summary
The course of a human being’s life is indispensably characterised by changes; changes which are borne out of multiple experiences at varied points of time. The process of human development is “awash in a sea of biology and heredity, of learning and socialization, of emotional attachment, the kind of psychological complexity and anxiety which arises is what the present paper seeks to highlight. Through an analysis of Emma Donoghue’s Room (2010) and its central characters, Jack and Ma, the paper attempts to bring out the trauma which follows from an undesired spatial change. 2. DONOGHUE’S ROOM continuity and change” (Mancini 3). Arises not just from crisis, nor just from conscious intention or effort: change may arise from chance.” (Gilligan 15), and might produce a sense of anxiety in an individual who might or might not always be prepared to embrace it in its entirety. The Canada based Irish writer, Emma Donoghue who has “often written fiction based on real people and events”[3] too was seized by the headlines more often than not an inclination towards resistance
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