From periphery to marginalization: A failed struggle of the protagonist in Nita Prose’s The Maid

Abstract

The study has been detected by the lines of major studies of neurodiversity and disability, the main role of Nita Prose’s novel The Maid, which highlighted its transfer towards deep attendance from the social circle. By analyzing cognitive differences and social challenges, the research examines how its neurodegeneration supports its isolation in both personal and institutional settings. The study has further investigated Molly’s neuroscience throat investigations with factors such as gender, class, and social expectations, urging how this overlapping identity develops its background. Using the theories from neurodiversity and disability studies, research estimates the critical representation of Neurodivergent roles in contemporary literature and reflects how this image affects public impression. Furthermore, this study has discussed a broad social structure that fails to adjust to Neurodivergent persons, thus strengthening exclusion and weaknesses. Through the close reading of The Maid, this investigation targets contributing to nudity, representation, and contradictory ongoing dialogue and presenting insights into the living experiences of individuals who exist outside the standard knowledge framework. Finally, this study has called for a more complete and thoughtful understanding of neurodivergence in both literature and society, and advocates are advocated to recognize and respect knowledge diversity rather than to back it.

Keywords: Neurodiversity, Marginalization, Disability Studies, Neurodivergent Characters, Intersectionality, Cognitive Differences, Nita Prose, the Maid, Social Exclusion, Literary Representation.