Traumatic Psychological dilemma in Nancy Harris's play Our New Girl

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This study explores the effect of trauma on the child, Danial, who had traumatized by an intense incident. This study deals with trauma as a dilemma in Nancy Harris's play Our New Girl. In fact, it provides a brief analysis of the impact of trauma on a child who is traumatized by his father's deeds and lies. Danial could not find his parents available, neither emotionally or physically, when he needed them, the thing that made Annie, his nanny, took the role of his parents. She becomes close to him, she was available and kind when he wanted someone to express himself. But the problem is with Annie because she also has a trauma at age nine when her mother committed suicide and her father did not know how to treat with her. The main intense event that shocked Danial when he saw Annie with his father at night undressed. This Danial's intense event results much more things such a distrusting of his parents and others, an aggression, disobeying, dissociation, and feeling unsafe. Hazel, the mother who feels tired and isolated because her husband leaves the things hanging up without giving solutions, the only solution that he had presented was bringing Annie to their house. This kind of child's environment impacts parent-child relationship that finally caused a stress and frustration inside child's mind then the child grows up with memory from the past controls his future.