Behind the Screen: Exploring the Challenges of Virtual Reality Technology in A.J. Finn's The Woman in the Window | ||||
| مجلة کلية الآداب بالوادي الجديد | ||||
| Volume 10, Issue 19, April 2024, Page 1752-1773 PDF (756.62 K) | ||||
| Document Type: بحوث علمية محکمة | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/mkwn.2024.444281 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| د/ فاطمة ممدوح محمد | ||||
| مدرس بقسم اللغة الإنجليزية كلية الآداب جامعة الوادي الجديد | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| This paper aims to present a psychological insight into how the heroine of A.J Fean's The Woman in the Window uses cyber virtual worlds to create defense mechanisms and coping strategies to pass her post traumatic disorders. It also explores how her extensive usage to this technology exposes her to be killed. For its theoretical framework, the paper uses virtual reality technology and its effects on people, especially psychiatric ones. Previous data explore the effect of social media on ordinary people. The researcher utilizes the psychological approach to analysis events, characters, characters' actions, and motives in the novel. So, reading the Woman in the Window from a psychological perspective helps indicate the problems that might face mentally ill people when they use the virtual reality applications. The paper concludes that the extensive indulgent in this technology exposes users to fatal dangers, reflecting the fate of the novel’s heroine who has to suffer grave consequences due to her harmful engagement with virtual reality. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Defense mechanism; coping strategies; social media; virtual reality worlds. | ||||
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