The Paradox of Traumatic Power
The play Hamlet by William Shakespeare in addition to the novel Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese have both demonstrated the idea of trauma granting the power to transform or resurrect and the power to destroy. Within the novel, we have seen Saul go through numerous traumatic events from witnessing the death of his brother and grandmother to the horrible physical, emotional and sexual abuse of the residential schools, all while experiencing the racial persecution of the world around him. These events had transformed Saul into a great hockey player, Saul used hockey to escape the terrible reality he lived in, his desperate need to escape allowed him to pour all of his focus into sharpening his hockey skills. In
The play Hamlet by William Shakespeare in addition to the novel Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese have both demonstrated the idea of trauma granting the power to transform or resurrect and the power to destroy. Within the novel, we have seen Saul go through numerous traumatic events from witnessing the death of his brother and grandmother to the horrible physical, emotional and sexual abuse of the residential schools, all while experiencing the racial persecution of the world around him. These events had transformed Saul into a great hockey player, Saul used hockey to escape the terrible reality he lived in, his desperate need to escape allowed him to pour all of his focus into sharpening his hockey skills. In