“Is this the real life or just a fantasy?” on Cormac McCarthy’s ‘The Road’; Marc Redfield’s Virtual Trauma: The Idiom of 9/11

The catastrophic event and its real and virtual traumatic effect overwhelms one’s ability to survive. It is not expected, people are unprepared for it and desperate to prevent it. Everytime the scenes are replayed, anxiety and fear grows and make one feel numb. In my opinion, media, photography and cinema manipulate one’s feelings and truths,…