The Psychological Trauma Of Mary Shelley s The Great...

â€Å"Life in General was cruel and offered only different types of voids and chaos. The only way to tolerate it, to have any hope of escaping it, I reasoned, was to know my own strength, to defy life by surviving it.† (Grealy, 188) Without a doubt, Lucy had considerable courage to tolerate numerous operations on her jaw, and suffered chemotherapy for her cancer. Nevertheless, though Lucy survived ordeal of her cancer, surgeries, she suffered psychological trauma of her disfigured face which did not fit society’s definition of beautiful. Lucy not only endured intense physical pain, which she had to endure in solitude, but also she faced great diversity of opinions and struggles to see her as normal. Under both painful experiences, obviously, Lucy was emotionally impacted by the popular cultural belief of beauty and happiness. Gradually, Lucy in order to fix herself, to fix her face, to fix her life was addicted to undergo plastic operations and have relationships, whic h affected Lucy to lost herself and her self-worth. First of all, Lucy never accepted herself, and denied to admit her broken jaw. There is no doubt that everyone lives in the world has their unique characteristic, same as Lucy. It is unfortunate that Lucy suffered cancer and had a broken jaw. Thinking ourselves into Lucy’s mind, and imagining ourselves into Lucy’s place, Lucy loses her original beauty, being stared curiously in school, public; and being teased by different forms of cruelty include knocking her hat