The Love of a Mother

Yolander Whitson

English 102

5/24/12

                   Psychoanalytic Criticism: The Love of a Mother

    In the beginning Gregor was a traveling salesman. He came home one evening from work tried. Gregor went to his room and went to sleep. He awake and said “What’s happen to me? “He thought, it was a dream. His room, a proper human room although a little small, lay peacefully between it four familiar walls. His mother was proud of him he took good care of the family, his parents and sister until one day Gregor transformation took over and turned him into a giant insect. The mother loved and cared for her son (Gregor), but when she saw him as the insect she seems to be afraid and a shame of her son.

     The chief clerk came to Gregor home to see what happen to him and why he was not at work. Gregor wanted to call in sick. But the boss would be extremely suspicious cause in fifteen years “I have never once been ill. His boss would come with the doctor from the insurance company.” Well I can’t think of any other way of explaining it, Mrs. Samsa”, said the chief clerk, I hope it’s nothing serious. But on the other hand, I must say that if we people in commerce ever become slightly unwell then fortunately or unfortunately as you like, we simply have to over come it because of business consideration”.

      And “Did you understand a word of all that?” The chief clerk asked his parents, “Surely he’s not trying to make fools of us”. “Oh God!” called his mother, who was already in tears, “he could be seriously ill and we’re making him suffer. Grete! Grete!” she then cried. The mother is really concern about her son. Did you hear the way Gregor spoke just now? “That was the voice of an animal? Said the chief clerk with a calmness that was in contrast with his mother’s screams. Gregor in contrast had become much calmer. So they couldn’t understand his words any more although they seemed clear enough to him, clearer, than before. Perhaps his ears had become use to the sound.

    Nobody wanted to be at home by themselves and had question about leaving the flat entirely empty. The maid was so shock when she saw Gregor she fallen to her knees and begged his mother to let her go without delay. I was not very clear how much the maid knew about what had happen. But she left with in a quarter of an hour, tearfully thanking Gregor mother for dismissal as if she had done her an enormous service. She even swore emphatically not to tell anyone the slightest about what had happened even though no- one had asked that of her.

    This story had strange thing going on the transformation of Gregor .He was a traveling salesman before he became an insect. The parents wanted to keep it a secret what their son had become. The sister always feed her brother. Gregor has a mother who loves him but don’t like the has happen to her son. There is some thing about the story that did not seem to be fair to Gregor, because he just wanted to be normal.

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Annotated Bibliography: Metamprphosis

For my annotated bibliography I have chosen to write on Psychoanalytic Criticism. The question I chose to expound on is "How does the text mirror the archetypal narrative patterns? The pattern that I chose is the good Mother.



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“The Little Black Boy”

William Blake’s “The Little Black Boy, has been long recognized as a work of “astonishing complexity,” in a dualistic perception of the world. This work tells the story of how he came to know his own identity and to learn about God. I believe that the poem state he was born in the “southern wild” which is Africa. He states that even though his skin is black his soul is as white as an English child. He talks about his mother teaching him about how God lives in the east, who gives light and life to all creations and comfort and joy to men. The black boy passes on his lesson to an English child, explaining that his white skin is likewise a cloud. He vows that when they are both free of their bodies and delighting in the presence of God, he will shade his white friend until he, too, learns to bear the heat of God’s love. Then, the black boy says, he will be like the English boy, and the English boy will love him.

 The black boy internalizes his mother’s lesson and applies it in his relations with the outer world; specifically, Blake shows us what happens when the boy applies it to his relationship with a white child. The results are ambivalent. The boy explains to his white friend that they are equals, but that neither will be truly free until they are released from the constraints of the physical world. He imagines himself shading his friend from the brightness of God’s love until he can become accustomed to it. This statement implies that the black boy is better prepared for heaven than the white boy, perhaps because of the greater burden of his dark skin has posed during earthly life. This is part of the consoling vision with which his mother has prepared him, which allows his suffering to become a source of pride rather than shame. But the boy’s outlook, and his deference to the white boy, may strike the reader as containing a naive blindness to the realities of oppression and racism, and a too-passive acceptance of suffering and injustice. We do not witness the response of the white boy; Blake’s focus in this poem is on the mental state of the black child. But the question remains of whether the child’s outlook is servile and self-demeaning, or exemplifies Christian charity. The poem itself implies that these might amount to the same thing.

The literary theory that this poem applies to this work is Marxist Criticism. Who does its benefit of the work or effort is accepted/successful/believed, etc? This work benefits anyone who reads it. In the past the speaker holds a fast desire of acceptance by the white English child. In today’s society there is no longer the want of desire of acceptance between blacks and whites.

Annotated Bib: The Little Black Boy

For my critical analysis, I chose William Blake's "The Little Black Boy." I am using Marxist Criticism theory to elaborate on the poem. The question that I am going to ask is: Whom does it benefit if the work or effort is accepted/successful/believed, etc? My hypothesis for this question is I believe that this work will and has benefited the people the will and has read it. It is a very motivational and inspirational work. Storyify Editor:http://helenl.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/the-little-black-boy-by-william-blake/

Do Gooder

I believe that this movie which is by Tyler Perry "Madea's Big Happy Family." This movie depicts my life alot. I believe that I am most like Madea which is the Matriach of the family, which is the same role that I play in my family. I try to keep everyone together through the good times and the bad. Although we have our up and downs we pray through it.