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ABSTRACT
In order to identify the effects of traumatic experiences on human behaviour, this study examines the moral responses to human crises in Delia Owen’s Where the Crawdads Sing and Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia’s The Son of the House. By weighing their decisions and actions against the backdrop of their past trauma, this study draws certain justifications and conclusions critical to testing the boundaries of ethics. Using trauma theory as its theoretical background, the study adopts a qualitative research methodology and deep content analysis of the selected texts. With a focus on the three protagonists in both novels, the findings reveal that past trauma has the ability to trigger transgressive desires and these transgressivedesires could inspire deceit. Sex and illicit affairs could also become a tool for survival, especially when used as a bargaining chip or an antidote for loneliness like the books’ protagonists did. The study concluded that while there are moral rights and wrongs, there are also moral grey areas where an action or decision is justified by the circumstances that inspired it.
