Judith Lewis quote from the book,Trauma and Recovery, explores the social behaviour of individuals subjected to an atrocity. He suggests that some information is deemed socially unacceptable to share due to its content. Lewis goes on to suggest that the sharing of memories is required in order to help victims overcome their traumatic experiences and to restore the social order. He believes that the root cause of psychological trauma is related to the individual 's conflict to share information about their experience or to try and forget that it ever happened. In addition, Lewis seems to suggest that horrific events have severe impact on an individual 's ability to recount their past. As a result, he believes only when the truth is recognized
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Defoe 's constant references to God in the journal of the plague year seem to highlight the importance of religion to people in 1664. Instead of keeping with the Christian values of the state, due to fear of the potential of a traumatic experience, the infected people were confined to their home. While Defoe believed the act was unsuccessful at stopping the spread, he believed the “confined the distempered people, who would otherwise have been both very troublesome and very dangerous” were constrained.While the act was introduced with good intentions, it is described by Defoe as a “great subject of discontent” (Journal Of A Plague Year, 369) . In addition, not only did the confinement of people to their house lead to more trauma, but it also was severely ineffective as people would sneak out or figure out ways to get around the law. However, from the point of view of Judith Lewis, one could argue that the shutting up of houses mitigates the extent of the traumatic experience of the victims. Once the truth of the moment is finally recognized, people can begin to recover. Consequently, although the traumatic experiences may have resulted in the dissolution of certain social norms, in some cases even though …show more content…
Daniel Defoe leaves the decision whether or not he should leave london to God. In the Journal of a Plague Year, Defoe suggests that some people were able to overcome the situation traumatic situations by seeking refuge in their religion and the understanding that God will take care of them. This contrasts with the ideas of Judith who suggests proclamations of the truth of an event is they way to heal, and the prayers of these people to God could be seen one of those ways of healing. In addition, following signs of an improvement people lives following the decline of the plague, people “conversed with anybody that came in their way to converse with, whether with business or without, neither inquiring of their health or so much as being apprehensive of any danger from them, though they knew them not to be sound”. It seems as if people 's eagerness for the end of atrocity caused them to temporarily forget about the plagues existence and hence increases their risk significantly. Therefore Defoe 's journal seems to agree with Lewis’ views that “equally as powerful as the desire to deny atrocities is the conviction that denial does not
Defoe 's constant references to God in the journal of the plague year seem to highlight the importance of religion to people in 1664. Instead of keeping with the Christian values of the state, due to fear of the potential of a traumatic experience, the infected people were confined to their home. While Defoe believed the act was unsuccessful at stopping the spread, he believed the “confined the distempered people, who would otherwise have been both very troublesome and very dangerous” were constrained.While the act was introduced with good intentions, it is described by Defoe as a “great subject of discontent” (Journal Of A Plague Year, 369) . In addition, not only did the confinement of people to their house lead to more trauma, but it also was severely ineffective as people would sneak out or figure out ways to get around the law. However, from the point of view of Judith Lewis, one could argue that the shutting up of houses mitigates the extent of the traumatic experience of the victims. Once the truth of the moment is finally recognized, people can begin to recover. Consequently, although the traumatic experiences may have resulted in the dissolution of certain social norms, in some cases even though …show more content…
Daniel Defoe leaves the decision whether or not he should leave london to God. In the Journal of a Plague Year, Defoe suggests that some people were able to overcome the situation traumatic situations by seeking refuge in their religion and the understanding that God will take care of them. This contrasts with the ideas of Judith who suggests proclamations of the truth of an event is they way to heal, and the prayers of these people to God could be seen one of those ways of healing. In addition, following signs of an improvement people lives following the decline of the plague, people “conversed with anybody that came in their way to converse with, whether with business or without, neither inquiring of their health or so much as being apprehensive of any danger from them, though they knew them not to be sound”. It seems as if people 's eagerness for the end of atrocity caused them to temporarily forget about the plagues existence and hence increases their risk significantly. Therefore Defoe 's journal seems to agree with Lewis’ views that “equally as powerful as the desire to deny atrocities is the conviction that denial does not