Normal people research to use in essay.

Rooney’s openness can be understood to be in line with the latest feminist wave, which,
influenced by the rise of social media, is much more centred on sharing individual female
experiences in an attempt to “unmute” and globalise women’s concerns (Parry 2019).

Female sexuality is definitely a fairly topical and convenient sphere for current feminisms,
since it still remains a key space for male violence to take place in a silent and clandestine
way.

Marianne from Normal People–that share a peculiarity: a ‘damaged’ personality

Both protagonists suffer the consequences of a problematic familial sphere, where abuse and
mistreatment have been and are part of their daily lives. Another important reality is also
commonplace in these novels: damage is always inflicted by male to female characters. This
proves that, as argued by Cronin, there certainly still exist “many damaged and damaging
individuals”

Marianne also conceives herself as someone unlovable: “I have a coldness about me, I’m
difficult to like”

Rooney best displays the obscure sexuality of a female character as a victim of domestic
abuse.

Mendia, Sofia Alferez. “The Continuum of Irish Female Sexuality in Sally Rooney’s
Conversations with Friends and Normal People: A Contradicted Ireland.” Estudios
Irlandeses, vol. 18, no. 18, 2023, pp. 148–60, https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2023-11443.

Leininger, Alex. “Power, Sex and Love in Sally Rooney’s ‘Normal People.’” PopMatters,
PopMatters Media Inc, 2019.