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Abstract
This study attempts to discuss and analyze the theme of maternity as depicted in three selected Novels by Margaret Drabble. The peppered Moth 2001, Jerusalem the Golden 1965, and The Millstone 1967. In these three novels, the mother-daughter relationship will be analyzed in addition to the reflection of Drabble’s relationship with her mother. Motherhood is a central experience in the life of Margaret Drabble. Drabble reveals in one interview that she sees motherhood in a positive term that she feels almost embarrassed to state it. She thinks motherhood is ”the greatest joy in the world.”(Creighton 24) This is one reason for Drabble to focus on this theme of maternity. The other reason for her to focus on motherhood is her own problematic relationship with her own mother, so Bokat emphasized that ”the most powerful force in Drabble’s early life was naturally enough in her mother who influenced much of her fiction.” (Bokat 12)
This thesis tries to clarify how the protagonist of each novel of the three selected ones, has a reflection in Drabble’s real life. In Jerusalem the Golden, Clara reflects Drabble’s own childhood in Sheffield, and Clara’s mother reflects Drabble’s mother and her life. In the Millstone Drabble reflects her own experiences of motherhood through the protagonist Rosamund. In the peppered Moth, Drabble presents a tale of mother and daughter and granddaughter. Each of them is a reflection to Drabble herself and her daughter, Maggie, and her mother, Kathlean. Besides the introduction and the conclusion, the thesis falls into four chapters.