Cycle of Violence in The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart by Holly Ringland and Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty [پايان نامه لاتين]
Sepideh Saroughi
| Record Identifier: | 52408 |
| Title: | Cycle of Violence in The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart by Holly Ringland and Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty |
| Personal Name: | Sepideh Saroughi |
| Studied Course: | English Language and Literature |
| Supervisor: | Dr. Hoda Shabrang |
| College: | Humanities |
| University: | Khatam |
| Descriptor: | Cycle of Violence Cultural Violence Direct Violence Holly Ringland Johan Galtung Liane Moriarty Objective Violence Slavoj Žižek Structural Violence Subjective Violence Systemic Violence |
| Degree: | Master |
| Studied Year: | 2025 |
| Abstract: | This study provides a critical reading on characters of two New York eminent novels which adapted to TV series, The Lost Flower of Alice Hart (2018) by Holly Ringland and Big Little Lies (2014) by Liane Moriarty under the definition of violence by Slavoj Žižek and Johan Galtung. This study clarifies the fact that no matter how hard characters of the selected novels try to free themselves from a cycle of violence, they cannot and this violated loop is unstoppable even with physical removal of the creator and agent of the violence, and even if a cycle of violence ends, another creates that expands more. Violence usually defines as unfair acts which are cruel but Žižek and Galtung in addition of the grouping also consider the relation between different groups of violence with each other. Subjective and objective violences are the main two violences which Žižek defines as physical and nonphysical violences. Subjective violence includes acts such as murdering, terrors, and physical injuries; while objective violence encompasses less visible and nonphysical kind of violence. Objective violence divides into two subcategories which includes symbolic violence like cruelty of language, racism, which transfer from its tools that are media, while systemic violence impose on people through the ones who owns power with their tools that are mostly economic and political. Johan Galtung also divides violence into three groups, direct violence which refers to physical violence with vivid traces such as injuries and bloodsheds. Galtung’s structural violence refers to the inequalities imbodied in system such as differences between genders, capitals, and position in system. Galtung introduces cultural violence as the root of other forms of violence which mostly identifies as violence of language or other structures which create a culture such as religion and beliefs. The characters of the two selected novels try to escape from the different violences impose on them but their efforts are futile since violence never stops, no matter how hard they try, they fail. They stock in a vicious cycle of violence and when they attempt to run away or break the cycle, they just create another chain of violence. In Holly Ringland’s The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Alice, trapped in her father’s cycle of violence, attempts to burn him to end his cruelty toward her and her pregnant mother, hoping he will be reborn without violence. While this ends her father’s cycle, it creates another, resulting in her parents’ deaths and depriving her unborn brother of biological parents. By involving her grandmother as her guardian, Alice unknowingly perpetuates violence, marking her life with subjective, systemic, symbolic, and cultural violence. Similarly, in Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies, three women endure various forms of violence, ultimately becoming perpetrators themselves. Madeline suffers from her ex-husband’s abandonment and the resulting impact on her daughter, Abigail. Celeste, despite her privileged status, is trapped in domestic violence with her husband Perry, who also raped Jane five years earlier, leading to an unwanted child. The story concludes with Perry’s accidental death, which ends the cycles of violence involving Celeste and Jane but creates another through his sons’ loss of their father. As a result, female characters in both novels, especially women, attempt to run away from the agents who impose violence on them but their attempts are futile. Both novels are full of injuries, murders, and physical harming which are examples of subjective and direct violence. Symbolic and cultural violence such as verbal insults alongside systemic and structural violence also play important roles in the selected novels since violence also can cause bigger chains of violence and never stops. |
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