Everybody's Mother

Description

Mind Map on Everybody's Mother, created by Rachel Lory on 08/09/2016.
Rachel Lory
Mind Map by Rachel Lory, updated more than 1 year ago
Rachel Lory
Created by Rachel Lory almost 8 years ago
46
1

Resource summary

Everybody's Mother
  1. ellipses
    1. and so on...
      1. Form imitates the meaning
        1. Lochhead doesn't need to finish the sentence because the connection between mother and child is universally experienced and understood
    2. Superlative
      1. "too smothering much"
        1. Overpowering/excessive love
          1. Emphasises the 'Catch-22' situation that mothers find themselves in where they can never get it right
      2. Hyperbole
        1. "Absolutely everyone's mother"
          1. Emphasises the way that mothers tend to 'mythologise' themselves because of the power imbalance in the mother child relationship that gives the mother the power to create narratives that romanticise her experiences - possibly also the desire of children to romanticise their mothers
          Show full summary Hide full summary

          Similar

          OTHELLO THEMES
          zoe98xoxo
          The First, Second, Third and Fourth Crusades
          adam.melling
          Edexcel IGCSE Business Studies Key terms Ch 1-9
          minsung.kang
          sec + final
          maxwell3254
          GCSE Chemistry C1 (OCR)
          Usman Rauf
          Why did the Cold War end?
          E A
          Business Management & Strategy PHR Study Guide
          Cari Hawthorne
          Unit #1 - Globalization and Identity
          Tanya Hooper
          I always Feel Tired
          Fatma Shwaylia
          CSA (115) ⊙ IITU 2017
          Zhandos Ainabek
          International Collaboration for Public Health
          Minnie Hui