Philosophical Causality and Resilience as a Hope: Analysis of Traumatic Experience in Kate Atkinson’s Fiction Life After Life

Abstract

Aristotle’s causality theory states, casual phenomenon of the normal life things are the most important things to formulate the life of an individual. The future life flow of an individual is navigated as per the characteristics and influences of the past experience and climatic condition. Causality theory functions with the working nature of Newton’s Third Law, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. As per causality theory, past experience plays a role as independent action and the future isdependenton them.So, the characteristics of the dependents are based on the characteristics and quality of the past independent actions. In psychology, a person perceives inputs through the social contexts. Causality theory emits the energy of resilience. With reference to Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life this paper reflects on how the traumatic experience of a person stimulates them to make their life successful, and how the experience of an individual actuates them to design their future. This theory elaborates the past experience of Ursula, which triggered her to contrive her future intentions as per the influence and experience of her traumatic life. The life experience of Ursula triggered her to be optimistic in behaviour. She tried to move on from her traumatic life but her new ambience effectuated her to become an assassinator of Hitler. The unexpected accidents and assaults in Ursula’s life gave secret power and strong energy to overcome her hardest parts of her life.