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Silent Trauma and Moral Responsibility: Fiona Maye as a Modern Judicial Consciousness

Author(s) V. Jennifer Rani, N. Vijayakumari
Country India
Abstract One of the most powerful examples of judicial consciousness found within the literature of recent years is presented in Ian McEwan’s The Children Act (2014). At the heart of the novel is Fiona Maye, who works as a High Court judge in the Family Division, where her task is to consider cases that concern the lives of young people as well as matters related to religion, freedom, and existence in general. In this paper, the figure of Fiona will be examined through the lens of a manifestation of the judicial consciousness of modern times, which can be defined as the intersection of three phenomena-trauma, ethical load, and responsibility. In this paper, one considers how Fiona’s decisions in particular the case of Adam Henry demonstrate the conflict between legal reasonableness and human vulnerability. In addition, one will examine how Fiona’s consciousness mirrors the conflicts and worries inherent to the modern state in which law must be humane but also keep its legitimacy. Using trauma studies, ethics, and legal-literary theory as interpretative approaches, the paper attempts to locate The Children Act in larger discussions about justice, ethics, and emotions in law.
Keywords Ian McEwan, The Children Act, Fiona Maye, silent trauma, judicial consciousness, moral responsibility, law and literature, ethics, trauma studies, contemporary British fiction.
Field Sociology > Linguistic / Literature
Published In Volume 7, Issue 2, March-April 2026
Published On 2026-04-10
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