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Jocasta vs. Kaikeyi A Mother's Control "A mother's love is unconditional." This is a statement that many of us have heard, and often represented. For those of us
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A Mother's Control
"A mother's love is unconditional." This is a statement that many of us have heard, and often represented. For those of us that are mothers we can understand this more so than those that are not. Or perhaps there are those of us that were difficult children and were the recipient of this unconditional love. Like everything else, there are always exceptions to the rules. Two prime examples to this are Queen Jocasta from Oedipus the King and Queen Kaikeyi of The Ramayana of Valmiki. Jocasta was given little opportunity to love her child, a fault mostly her own. Because of a prophecy she had her child killed as an infant (or so she thought) for the love of her husband. Kaikeyi on the other hand shows both a mother's love and a mother's hate. For the love of one child she had another exiled. Although Rama was not her blood born child, until manipulated by a servant, she treated him as good as her own. What were the intentions of these women by treating their children so? Were there standards different because they were of royal status? Were there outside forces that caused this treatment of their children? In each piece of literature both women were major influences on the theme.
These women were very similar and different in many ways. Both were women that in some form or other tried to determine the fate of their children; the fate that they chose for their children were very different. Jocasta and Kaikeyi were both victims; the amount of control over their "victim" status is questionable, as well as their responses. Both women reacted when their royal status was jeopardized, but their reactions were again different.
Both Queen Jocasta and Queen Kaikeyi tried to determine the fate of their children. Jocasta had let her husband get rid of their child that was determined to one day kill him and marry her. "My son- he wasn't three days old and the boy's father fastened his ankles, had a henchman...
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