However, the tragedy of this dynamic is best exemplified in Bong Joon-ho’s masterpiece, Mother . In this film, the mother’s devotion is boundless, bordering on madness. She exists solely to protect her intellectually disabled son, eventually sacrificing her own morality to ensure his survival. Unlike the consuming mother of Lawrence’s fiction, this mother destroys herself for her child. Yet, the result is similarly tragic; the son remains passive, an object of care rather than an agent of his own life. Literature echoes this sacrifice in the works of Charles Dickens, particularly in Great Expectations . While not his biological mother, Mrs. Joe serves as a harsh maternal figure, and Miss Havisham acts as a manipulative mother-figure to Estella. However, the archetype
However, the tragedy of this dynamic is best exemplified in Bong Joon-ho’s masterpiece, Mother . In this film, the mother’s devotion is boundless, bordering on madness. She exists solely to protect her intellectually disabled son, eventually sacrificing her own morality to ensure his survival. Unlike the consuming mother of Lawrence’s fiction, this mother destroys herself for her child. Yet, the result is similarly tragic; the son remains passive, an object of care rather than an agent of his own life. Literature echoes this sacrifice in the works of Charles Dickens, particularly in Great Expectations . While not his biological mother, Mrs. Joe serves as a harsh maternal figure, and Miss Havisham acts as a manipulative mother-figure to Estella. However, the archetype