Essays about: "maternal love"

Found 5 essays containing the words maternal love.

  1. 1. Thick Love : A Psychoanalytical Study of Mother-Daughter Relationships in Toni Morrison’s Beloved

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för utbildningsvetenskap

    Author : Khuteibe Hashim; [2021]
    Keywords : Psychoanalytical Criticism; Sigmund Freud; Jacques Lacan; Julia Kristeva; Beloved; Toni Morrison; Abjection; Semiotic; Symbolic; Imaginary; Mirror-stage; Defense Mechanism;

    Abstract : This study employs psychoanalytical theories to explore how the conscious, unconscious, and subconscious workings of the mind, combined with a search for identity, are presented and dealt with in Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved (1987). It is done through a close reading and in-depth textual analysis of thematic concerns raised in the work. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Complexity of Motherhood in Dystopian Novels : A comparative study of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Lois Lowry’s The Giver

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Nathalie Brandstedt; [2020]
    Keywords : motherhood; maternal love; Mirror Stage; objet petit a; backlash effect;

    Abstract : This study explores how motherhood is depicted in Margaret Atwood’s and Louis Lowry’s dystopian novels The Handmaid’s Tale and The Giver. It examines the negative social and psychological consequences of forced surrogacy in the novels’ state-constructed nuclear families, looking closely at a lack of maternal love and care. READ MORE

  4. 3. Ending the practice of child marriages in Nepal: viewpoints and suggestions from children’s rights activists

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Suman Baral; [2019]
    Keywords : Child marriage; Dowry; Children’s rights; Enforcement of laws; Prevention measures; Child love marriage; Arrange marriage; Poverty; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The thesis aimed to answer the research question: ‘What are the possible interventions measures to prevent child marriages in Nepal?’ by analyzing six in-depth semi structured interviews of people working for children’s rights. The earlier studies of child marriages and discussions of children and human rights has been used to analyse the data. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Swedish anti contraceptive law 1910-1938, showing how the pro contraceptive discourse advocate change

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Karin Andersson; [2012]
    Keywords : Hinke Bergegren; Elise Ottesen-Jensen; contraceptives; Lex Hinke; moral; maternal deaths; sexuality; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Problem/Background: Sweden was organised against contraceptives through the contraceptive law between 1910 to 1938, causing many women to perform unsafe abortions. Towards the end of the period Sweden became more accepting of contraceptives. READ MORE

  6. 5. Infanticide Uncondemned: Reflections on Trauma in Morrison’s "Beloved"

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Lotta Sirkka; [2011-07-04]
    Keywords : Toni Morrison; Beloved; trauma; remorse; maternal love;

    Abstract : This essay sets out to prove how the story of infanticide in Morrison’s Beloved was not condemned by community and how the communal response implicitly ratified the murderous mother’s remorselessness. I refute the main character’s maternal love as a driving force for the killing and claim that the chronic trauma of slavery has left her incapable of having any feelings, which affects her loving her children and leaves her unable to feel remorse for the murder she committed. READ MORE