Whoa! This thread is on fire!
Birdie said something about 'what if the mothers actually survived?' and it's quite interesting when I thought of it. Mothers---living or dead---do have a strong impact on everyone's lives.
But I disagree on the whole deal on the 'lost mother' archetype being overused. Well, archetypes ARE overused; they are like, literary 'constants' simply because mothers do die. It's a phenomena that happens to almost everyone. Since literature is a reflection of life, literature captures the dramas--even those that involve dying mothers.
I'm looking frward to reading more from this thread...
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