I believe that all evil happens for a reason. Here is an analysis of why mothers treat their daughters in this way, why daughters obey this way of treatment, and how it will eventually lead to the tragedy of mother-killing.
Lawyers commuted her daughter's sentence because she was chronically abused by a mother with "Munchausen syndrome." This disease refers to a mental disease that obtains sympathy by fantasizing about the symptoms of the disease, pretending to be sick, and even actively disabling oneself or others. Let's take a look at how many diseases mothers have fabricated for their daughters: "epilepsy, paralysis, anemia, heart disease, leukemia, asthma, muscular dystrophy and several chronic diseases, unable to walk and swallow normally, need to be in a wheelchair, Nasogastric tube feeding; brain damage due to premature birth, only about seven years old intelligent...allergic to all sugars...". If there is a child born with these many diseases, I am afraid that the parents will be scared and throw him away, but this mother, all the evil deeds she has created with her own hands are just to satisfy her own desires. Next, I will analyze it from the perspective of mother and daughter.
Mother's side:
1. Genetics
The play spends one episode reviewing the story of the mother's birth and the daughter's childhood in the form of interspersed contrast. There is a person who has always existed in this paragraph, and that is the mother's mother. We can easily see that the grandmother is also a very controlling woman: the mother just gave birth to the baby and hadn't held it for a long time, she took it directly after entering the door, and then arranged the next series of behaviors to the little baby on her own initiative; The baby was diagnosed as "underweight than other children" and began to complain that the mother did not breastfeed well; the mother was unwilling to spend money on bail to be released from prison in order to take care of the baby in her own way and prevent the child from contacting the mother... The grandmother has been denying the mother, We can all see her control, repression, persecution of her mother in all her actions and words... Some people may think that her grandmother is good to her children, but she does have such a desire to control and inherit it from her mother, that is, how she treats herself daughter will cause her daughter to treat her own children.
2. Postpartum depression
This is a very noticeable but often overlooked disease. Generally, mothers are often emotionally unstable in the two months after giving birth, and need someone to accompany them for comfort and support. However, there was no one around her at this time. Her mother had just introduced it, and she would never speak to her in a low voice and understand her hardships as a first-time mother, and the child's father had never appeared. Not long after the baby was born, the doctor told her that the baby might be a little "stunted," but that it was fine as long as she was breastfeeding well. However, at that time, her emotions would be extremely magnified, and she took it for granted that the child was seriously ill, so that this idea slowly turned into obsession. Postpartum anxiety, possessiveness towards her daughter, and her inherited desire for control from her mother...caused all the evil deeds she did to her daughter in the future.
3. Prison encounter
The only thing that supported the mother in prison was writing letters to her daughter, but it was later discovered that the grandmother had sealed all these letters and did not show them to her daughter. That's why she got angry and avenged her grandmother for deliberately ignoring her mother's dying pleadings and cries on the hospital bed. It is ironic that her mother-killing behavior is exactly the same as her own child's mother-killing behavior, indifferent and shirking responsibility. Those bad experiences in prison were real, so she threatened her daughter with this experience to sign, so as to continue to obtain custody of her already grown daughter. She told her daughter that if she went out and exposed the truth to the public, she would go to prison. This kind of straightforward psychological suggestion over and over again eventually led to the reason for her death: because the daughter always believed that she was not wrong, and the mother herself wanted to When she went to prison, she just let her mother suffer the retribution she deserved in advance.
4. Fraud insurance
Mother exchanged her well-created image of the Virgin in exchange for a house, countless awards and honors, a steady stream of donations from the people and huge subsidies from government agencies, as well as everyone's sympathy, favor and praise. In the past ten years, the mother has no work and no income, and she can easily get the money to maintain the necessary living needs in this way. With all these lies and conspiracies, the mother turned her biological daughter into a profit-making machine, obtaining money through the mercy of others.
5. Maternal love
It is said that the mother suffers from "Munchausen syndrome", that is, the caregiver deliberately exaggerates or fabricates the existence of various physical, psychological, behavioral or spiritual problems in the care recipient in order to win sympathy from the outside world. I think, however, that, in addition to gaining sympathy, there is a mother's extreme enjoyment of this kind of caring for her daughter. A single mother with a child alone naturally hopes to control everything about the child, and the child is her everything. She deservedly believed that she paid the most and deserved an equivalent return, so she could not accept all the children's disobedience and rebellious behavior. Her meticulous love and crazy and twisted care for her daughter, this selfish, terrible and extreme maternal love, is not the cause of tragedy.
Daughter Fang:
1. Habit
It can be said that from the moment the daughter has real memory, it is the mother who manages everything about her. She wanted good-looking jewelry and her mother could steal it for her, so later she would steal her mother's money again and again. Their lives are not poor, and the refrigerator is full of delicious food, even hard-to-buy medicines. She is accustomed to and enjoys this kind of clothes to stretch out her hands, eat, and open her mouth, and she lives like a princess in which someone controls everything, so she will be dissatisfied again and again after killing and fleeing, and even thinking about "going back", which is why she is socially active The stupid idea of posting that paragraph on the website wishing others to know that my mother was dead and moving her body away so that she could live in again. The daughter enjoys and gets used to the mother's care. However, behind this care is the mother's control over her, including what to eat, what to wear, what not to do, what not to say... They have been getting along like this for more than ten years mode, she has always believed in it. She has always listened to her mother's words, and even if she shows a slight attitude of rejection, she will show a submissive smile after a while. He knew he could walk, but when his mother found out, he immediately returned to a patient state. Even if she later entered adolescence and developed rebellious thoughts, she could easily dispel such thoughts and return to her mother's good baby because of her mother's few words. As the old saying goes, where there is oppression, there is resistance, but when you are used to this kind of oppression and know that resistance has no good fruit to eat, but you can get what you want while being oppressed, how will you choose? The daughter is used to this way of life, and of course she is used to being controlled by her mother.
2. Lack of education
In order to create a "daughter is mentally retarded", the mother never let her go to school, and brainwashed her all day to make her believe that she was living in a fairy tale. Therefore, she has never had the opportunity to have access to advanced education, to have a good environment for developing the correct three views, to be able to find out what's wrong with the situation around her in time and have the ability to solve it. She didn't know how big and beautiful the world was. All her knowledge of the world outside the door came from the terrible things her mother told her, so she gave up the moment she was able to lift her legs and step out of the door. A person's tragedy often comes from the education that person has received, and the adult daughter is still under the care of her mother, pretending to be a child, wearing a princess dress, and watching princess movies. How can such an education not develop a child? What about the daughter who "decided to kill and flee because her pampered princess life was interfered with by a horrific stepmother"?
3. Information occlusion
Since her daughter was placed in a wheelchair, her only place in the world is that room, and her range of activities is only around her mother. She has no friends her age and cannot communicate with anyone other than her mother. It was not until she met a neighbor girl that she began to rebel again and again. I bought a mobile phone, bought a computer, searched for concepts I didn’t know, and made boyfriends online. Because of her inner loneliness and loneliness, she will rely on the virtual boyfriend on the Internet, and she has nowhere to vent her emotions and resentment. She can only tell her boyfriend on the Internet to get a little bit of warmth. For her, the virtual boyfriend is not only the condiment of her emptiness and loneliness, the solace of her sorrow and hopelessness, but also the only window for her to contact the outside world.
4. Respond to mother's love
In the play, there are often conversations between mother and daughter about the star angel, "I protect you, and you protect me too." In her daughter's heart, it makes sense for her mother to do so, and she will tell outsiders many times: "she is also for my good", "she really loves me", "she just wants to keep me safe", "My mom needs me". When the doctor discovered her daughter's "nothing sickness" secret, she encouraged her to go out (drink Coke), but she refused. She gave up when she had a chance to tell the neighbor girls everything, maybe she didn't want to be seen as an alien when she saw the girls playing with makeup. The wrong motherly love and the wrong way of responding are also one of the reasons for the tragedy.
How the homicide happens:
1. Can't bear it, don't bear it anymore
You are obviously not sick, but you are forced to pretend to be sick all the year round; you can live a normal and happy life, but you are deprived of all your fun and desires. You think it's okay, but more and more signs make you realize that this is the source of the pain. Will you resist?
After being tortured by her mother for a long time, she had to face psychological humiliation, mental torture, and physical abuse. Long-term gastric tube feeding caused gastric acid reflux to corrode a good tooth, and her mother forced her to have all her teeth pulled out for fear of finding out the truth; when the welfare agency came to investigate, her mother forcibly fed her sleeping pills, which made her appear in a trance. The mentally retarded appearance is just because she doesn't want to let her express herself; when she bravely walked out of the house for the first time and wanted to live a good life with "Prince Charming", she was pulled back by her mother, beaten and tied up...
In the face of long-term abuse, she gradually gained her own consciousness. From the beginning of forbearance to the later time of keeping a low profile, prepared all means (including giving her boyfriend a hint to help save her) to avenge her mother. In fact, in the end, her mother was swollen and fat all over because of diabetes. She could have endured it any longer. She could have waited for her mother to die. Compare it to "abominable stepmother". She couldn't bear it any longer. She wanted to escape and get rid of it. This was not just revenge and hatred, but she chose to sink after struggling with herself all day long.
2. Yearning for a better life in the future
From the very beginning of this drama, we can see that she is full of curiosity and yearning for everything. When she saw the neighbor girl drinking Coke, eating cake, and having her boyfriend wearing a necklace, she also wanted it. She began to rebel, and tried these recklessly after her mother took sleeping pills every night, but the rebellion eventually paid. Later, the Internet became the source of her venting, and it was because of the Internet that her distorted character was able to show off recklessly. She just happened to meet her boyfriend who was also in a bad mental state, and the two fantasized about a better life in the future. After two years of night and night exchanges, the two finally embarked on a road of no return.
All in all, this is a show based on true events, and what happened in reality is far more cruel than what is reflected in the show. We can never underestimate the evils of human nature, and because of this, we can never ignore the exploration and investigation of the reasons behind these evil deeds. The above is just my own superficial understanding, and in the real situation how these evil deeds arise, how they spread, and how they eventually lead to tragedy, I am afraid only the mother and daughter can know.
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