"The Other Mother"
Coraline By: Neil Gaiman
SUMMARY
"Other Mothers" moods
To stay you need a button as eyes
I won't win unless i play dirty
METAPHOR
The way the "Other Mother" shows to love the children is "in a possessive, objective way" she uses every method to keep them in just one place for herself. "The Other Mother's created world is very small. It's little more than a trap; she cannot imagine enough of a future for Coraline to give her a larger world" said Diana because when you see parts from the movie and Coraline tries to run far away from the house she can't and ends up back where she was because the "Other Mother" didn't see more than just that house for her. Her reason for that is the fact she is showing that once she sews her eyes as buttons she can't leave that is the way her love is for the children. She would use them just for fun and when she got bored of them she decides to take more than just her whole entire future with their family but also their soul. The true question do you think that the reason why the "Other Mother" really needs is to stay alive? I mean she does seem like a very ancient person. Is she really a human? That's where i feel that she is truly a witch. If you see the old stories over witches some usually seemed to live off children or even people. The reason for her being a witch is the fact in the beginning of the movie of Coraline is showed some weird looking tentacles which the "Other Mother" shows during the time she turns into her true form. She starts making a doll that throughtout the story leads her to the door that leads Coraline to her "Other Parents". Don't you think that's a little weird?
As you can see it seems for now the "Other Mother" seems like the corrupter but Susan says it also has to deal with a "parental alienation where other caretakers and parents are trying to be erased from the minds of the children in order for something else to take their place". If your parent seemed to not give you an attention of when you came home from school and needed help on something but they told you to go away because they too busy working? Wouldn't you say it's also the parents fault for the reason on why their kids feel like they need some type of love by their parents so they go to someone else for that. They start to fear that they won't have someone to say that loved them so they have to find someone to give them that affection. So that's why it was so easy for the "Other Mother" to take advantage of Coraline.
MLA Citation
Buckley, Chloe. NEIL GAIMAN’S ‘NEW MOTHER’ 1882–2002: HOW CORALINE (n.d.): n. pag. Web
Ballantyne, Susan. N.p., n.d. Web.
Gaiman, Neil. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Print.