Lizzie with Her Three Mother Figures

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Not all stories of “Cinderella” in the real life can have happy endings . In most cases, incomplete family brings bad influence on the form of good moral quality and manners of children. A healthy and caring family is of vital importance, while children in broken and cold family can only ill-develop in the shadow. Unfortunately, few princes can be found outside fairy tales who are willing to rescue these “Cinderellas”, which means many of them would grow up with mental problems and might do something shocking and scary one day. Based on a real historical case that happened in 1892, Sharon Pollock wrote the drama “Blood Relations” to show us what causes a thirty-four years old woman murders two of her family members brutally. Apparently , the absence of a good mother figure in Lizzie’s life is one of the crucial reasons that Lizzie has lots of character flaws. The relationships between Lizzie and her three mother figures influence Lizzie’s personality from different aspects, but all cause her rebellious streak. Because of the death of Lizzie’s biological mother, Lizzie lacks love in her life leads to her doubts about love, which results in her rejection of marriage. When Lizzie and her father talk about her mother: LIZZIE. I remember you told me she died because she was sick…I was born and she died… Did you love her? MR. BORDEN. I married her. LIZZIE. Can’t you say if you loved her. MR. BORDEN. Of course I did, Lizzie. (57) Thus, in Lizzie’s view, marriage may have nothing to do with love. Because she lost her mother in her very young age, she has no chance to understand what the true love is between parents, and it makes her develop a negative attitude towards marriage. She is afraid of marrying without love. This attitude can be found in her quarrel with her father about Johnny MacLeod. She believes “He is looking for a housekeeper and it isn’t

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