Manipulative Woman: A Psychological Study In Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl

Abstract

Trauma theory is a wide field of research that copes with the psychological and physiological influences of traumatic experiences on individuals. Due to specific traumatic events, trauma refers to a kind of experience that impact a person’s ability to manage, such as wars, accidents, sexual abuse, violence, disasters, and any type of event that affects a person’s life. One of the various effects of such traumatic events is the significant and long-lasting psychological and physical effects, including Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Such influence causes instability in the individual’s life and might lead to more catastrophic consequences, more importantly, may lead to committing homicide or suicide. The research also assumes questions of whether the motives of murdering are worthy or not in addition to this, the research explores the criteria used to evaluate the characters' motives.  The present study is conducted to investigate the impact of instability on traumatised persons and their unpredictable behaviour and motives behind the homicide and murdering of some female characters in selected novels of the American writer Gillian Flynn.