One of Us is Lying

Awtor: Karen M. McManus

Neşir ediji: Penguin Books

Kategoriýa: Detektiw

Barkody: 9780141375632

Dili: Iňlis

Çap ýyly: 2017

Kitap daşy: Ýumşak

Sahypa sany: 360

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The aim of this paper is to explore the issues of peer rejection and revenge among adolescents through their portrayal in young adult literature (YAL). Adopting the lens of Lacanian theory on subjectivity and desire, the paper analyses a revenge plot in Karen M. McManus’s novel One of Us Is Lying and its origins. It argues that peer rejection contributes to contradictory self-concepts; how adolescent characters view themselves clash at some point with how others regard them, leading them to seek retribution. Their attempt at revenge will be examined along the lines of Lacanian psychoanalysis, and the paper argues that their revenge is driven by the impulse to fulfil the Other’s desire, which eventually fails due to the unobtainable nature of the desire itself.