Toxic Family Relations in the Metamodernist Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh

Abstract

The work at disposal deals with particular contemporary societal matters from their narrowest side through the dystopian novel The Water Cure (2018) by Sophie Mackintosh. An analysis of the suggested book would require a metamodernist reading, for even if some twenty-first century authors still utilise postmodernist mechanisms, they do apply them according to contemporary usage. What will also be dealt with is a representation of the marginalised women through the analysis of the novel’s female characters. Mainly, a special representation of feminism is extricated from the suggested novel. It is not only that of men versus women, but also that of women versus others of the same sex; a thing that adds to its acuteness. It is becoming more and more crucial to voice the voiceless women and to defend the abused ones. One of the major topics to be investigated and in this field is domestic violence and parental toxicity; a central topic in this research. Toxic family dynamics are to be discussed and analysed in The Water Cure (2018), and projected on contemporary societies of the twenty first century.