Fatichah, Leisya Amini (2026) CHILDHOOD TRAUMA MANIFESTATIONS AND CLAIMED EXPERIENCES IN LUCY M. MONTGOMERY’S ANNE OF GREEN GABLES (1908). Undergraduate thesis, Fakultas Ilmu Budaya.

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Abstract

This study examines the manifestations of the trauma and the movement from
unclaimed to claimed experience in Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables
(1908) through the main character of Anne Shirley, with a particular focus on the
psychological implications of her early experiences of neglect and abandonment. This
study analyzes how trauma manifests not only as a past event but also as a going,
unassimilated experience. The analysis is informed by Cathy Caruth’s trauma theory.
This study employs a qualitative research method using a psychological approach and
close reading to identify various manifestations and transformations of trauma. The
findings reveal that Anne Shirley’s childhood trauma manifests through psychological
latency, evident in her preemptive withdrawal from attachment, and through the
compulsion to repeat, visible in her recurring imaginary companions and patterns of
anticipated abandonment. Furthermore, Montgomery constructs Anne’s movement
from unclaimed to claimed experience through three interconnected processes: the shift
from unknowing to knowing, the transformation of repetitive behavior into testimony,
and the relational encounters with Matthew and Marilla that move Anne from isolated
suffering toward shared humanity. This study concludes that in Anne of Green Gables,
Montgomery traces a process through which Anne gradually integrates her traumatic
history into a coherent sense of self, arriving by the novel's end at the capacity to face
an uncertain future as someone who, for the first time, genuinely belongs.
Keywords: childhood trauma; Anne Shirley; Anne of Green Gables; Lucy Maud
Montgomery; Cathy Caruth

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