Heroes And Antiheroes As Victims Of Abuse In The Harry Potter Series

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dc.contributor.authorSaleh, Maysam Bahaa
dc.date.accessioned2018-08-30T00:42:55Z
dc.date.available2018-08-30T00:42:55Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractIn children’s literature various themes have been examined in connection with violence such as abuse and bullying. Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist and Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach are examples of children’s suffering since the main characters are orphans living in a violent world and who are, at the same time, victims of abuse. The Harry Potter series are no exception. Since the first book of the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (1997), until the seventh book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007) J.K. Rowling pursued the theme of child abuse through her depiction of three characters: Harry Potter, Severus Snape and Lord Voldemort by using different types of abuse such as the physical abuse, emotional abuse, verbal abuse, bullying, mobbing and neglect. The current research explores to what extent Rowling has depicted these three characters as victimized heroes and antiheroes, the different types of abuse throughout the novel and examine the effects of abuse on the abused characters. Jung’s (1953) archetypal theory will be adapted in the current study with emphasis on the individuation process and the integration of both the conscious and the unconscious which can affect the characters either negatively or positively. The study will combine the archetypal theory with the sociological and psychological classifications of abuse as well as the types and effects presented by Briere (1992), Olweus (2001), Tower (2002) and Elliot (2003) to analyze the characters’ personality and behaviour throughout the series which can be affected by the negative effects of abuse. Accordingly, the character can turn into a hero victim, antihero victim or victimizer, or a shadow, which can be a victim or a perpetrator.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/6468
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversiti Sains Malaysiaen_US
dc.subjectHeroes and antiheroes as victims of abuseen_US
dc.subjectin the harry potter seriesen_US
dc.titleHeroes And Antiheroes As Victims Of Abuse In The Harry Potter Seriesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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