Medea and Mother Courage
Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Emile Zola's Therese Raquin are both works with characters that possess maternal instinct. There is not a definite explanation for maternal instinct because it can be viewed differently. Although this is true, there is often a stereotype woman with the 'right' qualities of maternal instinct. This often articulates unrealistic images in people's minds. Instinct means "an imposed set of values, imposed by the society" and the way they think a mother should naturally act by. Realistically, the instinct depends on the mother's disposition, the way she wants to behave depends on her emotions, which cannot be articulated. Therefore, it is not possible to impose a definite set of values for how a mother should act for it varies from one mother to another. Mother Courage is a mother who fights for a living so that her three children can survive the war. War to her is a necessity because she needs the business from the soldiers in order to survive, but on the other hand, war is her ultimate enemy. She is doing everything to keep her and her children from being involved with the war. It was her husband's death that lead to her natural defenses for her children and the war which in turn resu
Even the authors may not have wholly approved, they may have used intentionalist fallacy in order to portray the stereotyped mother. Got your bounty money here, come along. Then she loses her daughter while Kattrin was warning the town of Halle of invasion. For example, when the Cook proposes to Mother Courage, Kattrin realizes that the Cook thinks she is a burden and does not like her. ""[Mother Courage] Half a florin it is. Here, Brecht uses situational irony as an example of how Mother Courage did not 'meet the criteria' of a stereotyped maternal instinct. This emphasizes on how Madame Raquin's way of protecting her son is ironic because of the impression of isolation from the society and the sense of suffocation of restrictions. For example, when the Recruiter took her bravest son, Eilif away:"[Recruiter to Eilif] . Madame Raquin is so worried about the life and death of Camille, that "at any suggestion that he should go off to boarding school" or the thought of "books would be the death of him", she would tremble all over and believed that "away from her he would die" . From this, Zola decides to use Camille, Therese and Laurent to demonstrate what he perceives as the 'ideal' maternal instinct. " He used the narrow, dark, damp, "dirty, evil and gloomy" bridge to give an impression of the restrictions that Madame Raquin imposes on Camille. Therefore, she decides to leave, but Mother Courage chooses to leave the Cook and follow Kattrin instead. Consequently here, Madame Raquin shapes Camille's character by preventing him from having an 'untamed' hear!t which may kill him, ironically. The technique here is to use examples, again, to prove that Mother Courage may not be the caring mother she should be.
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