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Once a baby is born and a woman enters motherhood, her maternal instincts come naturally, either right away or over time. The one major problem with that is because becoming a mother comes with some unrealistic expectations to be a perfect one as well. Mothers, especially new ones, are pressured so much in their lives, because they have a child to take responsibility for. All of these presumptions may add to the stress that a new mother is already dealing with from learning how to take care of her baby. Family members and even community members put these mothers to shame by telling them how to do something the “correct” way.

Her endeavor against odds proves to be the major cause of her suffering and alienation from her own family and the society. In her article “Crossing the Patriarchal Threshold: Glimpses of the Incipient New Women in Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters” Seema Malik comments regarding the portrayal of Virmati: Thus in Virmati we see the incipient new woman who is conscious, introspective, educated and wants to carve a life for her. To some extent she even conveys a personal vision of womanhood by violating current social odds yet she lacks the confidence, self-control, for sigh tends and is physically imprisoned with an underlying need to be emotionally and intellectually dependent on superior force – Professor Harish and it is precisely this

Older Adult Interview Betty was born August 30, 1930 in southern Missouri. Her parents, Maggie and Casey, were your everyday farmers in Christian County. She had an older sister, Wanita, and an older brother, Wayne, as well as a few younger siblings. Growing up, she was blessed to be in a Christian home, where your faith was everything.

Poverty has ruined the person's life. " Marigold" by Eugenia Collier and "Thank you M'am" by Langston Hughes are both stories where the young one has to learn that poverty has left us with nothing. In "Marigolds", the main character, Lizabeth grew in the Great Depression in a poor town. According to the text," The Depression that gripped the nation was no new thing to us"(p.15). This show that Lizabeth in this time period she has nothing, no one does have anything they have nothing to hold on to.

A romantic relationship between two people can be complicated, and sometimes even a genuine, loving relationship can become burdensome for one if their partner abandons them in times of adversity. In the novel, The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, A man loses the support of his wife and assumes responsibility for his son while in a post-apocalyptic world. The man has a significant relationship with his wife as he is devastated by her death and he gets paranoid when he dreams of her. The un-named woman in the road is the man's wife and the boy's mother.

In strengthening the importance of adapting to the ‘good mother’ script, a crucial role was played by psychoanalysis. As it will be shown, psychology has been instrumental in constructing the ways in which motherhood is seen, and in maintaining mothers in their current social position. Moreover, psychoanalysis is a useful tool which can be used to show how we acquire our heritage of the ideas and laws of human society within the unconscious mind. One of the most known and debated psychoanalytic approaches to the mother-child relationship is the one used by Sigmund Freud in his analysis of the so-called Oedipus complex.

In “Mama Day” by Gloria Naylor the novel focuses on loved one, loved ones lost, and one’s personal reconciliation with the past, present and future. The theme of reconciliation is widely illustrated throughout the novel as Naylor creates a story that spans two worlds. One is the southern island of Willow Springs, inhabited only by the descendants of slaves; the other is New York City, a multi-racial, strict society. As Mama Day achieves a personal breakthrough of her own during the story as she experiences her own moment of reconciliation for all the sacrifices she has made throughout her life.

Slavery which is considered naturally and necessary an enemy of literature was not only responsible for shunning the past of the African people but at the same time is also responsible for the drastic change in their future. Toni Morission inspired and influenced by Chinua Achebe took a step to raise a voice on behalf of all the depressed and the downtrodden section and through her writings has brought forth the conditions of these people an dhow drastic impact it can have on one’s life in her world renowned novel Beloved. Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a slave narrative of an event not uncommon to the times, a mother killing her own child to keep her from the horrors of enslavement. Beloved is on a historical and sociological level a Holocaust

A number of poems revealing the tensions of childhood or child parent relationships, placed after the “Sequence in Hospital,” fall like a shadow from some giant distress, grown over the years, which has finally over-whelmed her as she struggles with that “ache for certainty that never ends.” “Father to Son,” “Domestic Dramas,” “Warning to Parents,” an ironic “Happy Families,” “Mah Jong,” all validate this, as do five poems entitled “Exodus I- V.” Her departure is from the promised land, a force emigration of childhood to the doubts of adulthood. These six pages are the repository of much of the material used in her poems; their sequence of short paragraphs from two to four lines at length present a stream of consciousness flow of thoughts,

Aspects of Liminality in the Post-partum Ritual of the Twelve Apostles Church Introduction The purpose of this essay is to explore Victor Turner’s ideas on liminality. A description of the setsetse ritual of new mothers in the Twelve Apostles Church has been provided. Definition of Ritual, Liminality and Rites de Passage Every society has further divisions within it, whether by age, gender or rank.