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In the book Comfort Woman, Nora Okja Keller describes a tragic history of a woman whose past unfolds the atrocities of the imperial Japanese army. With the various elements of the traditional thoughts, Keller successfully depicts a mother- daughter relationship on top of the description of the woman's personal history as a ‘comfort woman'. However, it can be argued that the illustration with detailed oriental imagery may represent the main character in such a way that reinforces the victimization. This paper analyzes the use of the traditional symbology and shamanism in the novel. Then the female bodies will be studied as symbolic battlefields, and the actual issue of the ‘comfort women' will also briefly be investigated; then finally the paper will look for the reasoning that makes writers like Keller able to represent the group, and the problems will be discussed as to whether or not the graphic description doubly victimizes the women for the other's interest.