Parent Relationships Essay, Research Paper

In many of the works of literature I have read in this particular class, I noticed that many of the characters are parents. Which leads me to ask the following questions? How are parent/child relationships represented in early literature and how do these representations compare with representations, either real or literary, in our society?

Each of us has a mother and a father, whether it is biological or foster, we all have a parent that is our backbone. Some one who we can rely on and in our most desperate times, have there to guide through that difficult period. And like all parent/child relationships, there are tribulations that we as either parent or child must go through. In many works of literature and poems, you find the love/hate concept of it all. You love you daughter, but either she has done you wrong, or the your lover refuses to accept her so you do away with her. The mother may be jealous of the daughter?s beauty as it relatively seems in Shappo?s poems.