Regeneration from Plague: Analysis of Trauma Narrative in <i>The Painted Veil</i>

Yan Jun

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Regeneration from Plague: Analysis of Trauma Narrative in The Painted Veil

Yan Jun

Published in International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 10, Issue 5)

Received: 8 September 2022 Accepted: 4 October 2022 Published: 18 October 2022

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The Painted Veil is a work with the emotional entanglement of the couple, Kitty Garstin and her husband Walter Fane, as the main clue, which mainly depicts Kitty’s regeneration from the plague based on trauma. Born in a middle class family, Kitty’s mother forced her to make the most of marriage to enter the upper class, which caused her trauma in the family. Unfortunately Kitty didn’t catch the chance, so she had to marry Walter in a hurry, which led to the trauma in her marriage. She was very disappointed in the marriage, which resulted in her affairs with Charles Townsend. In order to revenge, Walter took her to Mei-tan-fu, a plague-stricken place in foreign lands, where she suffered from the trauma from constant death threat. Deeply traumatized in her marriage and the death threat, Kitty was disillusioned and even wanted to die. During her work in the monastery, she began to reflect on herself in the past, realized the true life value, and found the way to regeneration. In view of this, the author carried out narrative analysis of the source of her trauma, the tortures of trauma, and her fight against trauma, aiming at criticizing the utilitarianism and worldliness in western modern concepts.

Published in	International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 10, Issue 5)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijll.20221005.15
Page(s)	306-310
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Source, Tortures, Fight Against, Trauma Narrative

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Yan Jun

School of Foreign Languages, Yancheng Teachers’ University, Yancheng, China

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