The Great Mother Archetype

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a. The Great Mother Archetype

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So Darcy was probably right. Fun stuff like birthday wouldn t matter as much by the time we reached thirty. Giffin, 2004:2. Rachel hates her mother because the figure of her mother is out of her expectation. She expects a figure of mother who always cares for her, loves her and adores her. But then, the fact is that Rachel s mother is far from her expectation. In this case Rachel s mother appears as a negative great mother archetype. Meanwhile, Rachel s mother has an expectation to Rachel as well. Her mother expects Rachel to become a good daughter who always shares every daily story to her. On the other hand, Rachel is an introverted person who cannot show her feelings or her desires to anybody includes her mother. Rachel becomes introverted because her parents who are over-protective to her. Rachel s mother is }~  € ‚ ƒ~} ‚ „ …† ~ „‡ˆ~ ‰ Š ‹ ‡…† ~  Œ† ‡ ‚  €‡„  ~ˆ Š…‚ ˆ~ ; she is over-protective to her daughter because Rachel is the only child that she has. Rachel s mother loves Darcy more because Darcy can fulfill her desires to get any daily story, everyday Darcy shares her daily story to Rachel s mother and they are look like really close. One day, Rachel s mother wants to make Rachel as pretty as Darcy, she realizes that her mother is the same like another people who adores and loves Darcy. It can be seen from Rachel s statements, My mother is an open-book chatterbox and she expects everyone to be just like her, particularly her only child Giffin, 2004:194-195, Yet my mother just plain old loved Darcy, perhaps because Darcy supplied her with the details of our life that she could carved Giffin, 2004:194-195. Rachel really hates for knowing the fact that her mother admires Darcy and always compares Rachel to Darcy. Even, Rachel s mother wants Rachel to dress- up like Darcy when she was in the seventh grade: I remember once in the seventh grade, I refused to participate in the annual talent show, though Darcy incessantly heckled me to be one of her two backup dancers in her outlandish rendition of Material Girl. Despite her own shyness, Annalise folded quickly, but I refused to succumb, didn t care that Darcy s choreography called for a three-girl act, didn t care that she said I was running her chances of blue ribbon. Often I would let Darcy talk me into things, but not that one. I told her not to waste her breath, I had no intension of ever setting foot on a stage. After Darcy finally gave up and invited Brit to take my place, my mother lectured me on becoming more involved in fun activities. Aren t straight as enough for you? I asked her. I just want you to have fun, honey, she said. I lashed out, saying, you just want me to be her she told me not to be ridiculous, but part of me believed it. I feel the same way now. Mom, no effense to you or the second daughter you never had,but- Oh don t start with that nonsense she pats her ash- blond hair which she has been coloring with the same Clairol hue for the past twenty years. 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I would be forced to live with What if forever. Giffin, 2004. 197-198. The result of her archetype does not match. Rachel imagines an ideal mother towards great mother archetype. 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Rachel starts her new life with Dexter, and she realizes that her true love to Dexter can help her out from the shadow of her parents marriage life. Whenever Rachel is with Dexter, everything makes sense. He makes her the person she wants to be, instead of the person she is. The idea of life without him is not only unbearable, it is unimaginable and she wants to make Dexter happy too, by saying: The truth is, I feel freer with Dex than I ever did when I was single. I feel more myself with him than without. Maybe true love does that. And I do love Dex. I have loved him from the very beginning, back in law school, when I pretended to myself that he wasn t my type. I love him for his intelligence, his sensitivity, his courage. I love him wholly and unconditionally and without reservation. I love him enough to take risks. I love him enough to sacrifice a friendship. I love him enough to accept my own happiness and use it, in turn, to make him happy back. Giffin, 2004:382.

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