Something that is ignored when it comes to Shauna in the wilderness is her unique isolation from the other girls.
Even with all the trauma olympics thatās played, whatās different about the other girls compared to shauna is that they all have shared experience and shared trauma. They all crashed in the plane, most have lost someone or watched someone they cared about die, theyāve all participated in a hunt and ate someone. Even when it comes to Shaunaās birth, theyāve ALL experienced it, they have the shared experience of watching shauna go through that.
But shauna? She has the single unique experience of loosing a child. Of horrifically loosing a child, being neglected by the only adult there, who was their health teacher. Her child is then used as a religious sacrificial lamb, then sheās further isolated by her post partum psychosis.
Lottie gives herself to Shauna to let out her immediate anger, and despite the fact that all the girls sit by and let that happen, she is further isolated, because now she is feared. Then sheās assigned to be the butcher, and has to dismember Javis body mere weeks after she lost her own child. Her role as the butcher further isolating her.
Then sheās given no real support, no grace and her child is still being used as a prop. she is completely and utterly alone in a way that none of those other girls are. So she leans in to the thing that can grant her control, which is violence and rage.
She is one lone force surrounded by her teammates who sit there and let her do the dirty work, and make her the scapegoat for the violence they perpetuate. If they wanted to overpower her they could, but they donāt.
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