matricide theme
A son or daughter murders their own mother.
Examples
In "Psycho" (1960), we learn that young Norman Bates had murdered his widowed mother and her new fiancée out of jealousy when Mrs. Bates planned to remarry.
16 total · 1 choice · 10 major · 5 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ahp1x17 | choice | Lizzie was accused of having killed her mother but it was Emma who did the deed. |
| ahp2x10 | major | Gil tried to murder his stepmother Rosine. |
| ahp5x22 | major | Hubert went to elaborate lengths to manipulate his elderly mother into taking her own life by drinking poison. |
| ahp5x24 | major | The plot turned on Jimmy killing his own movie star mother Betsy in an effort to get out from under she shadow. |
| ahp5x26 | major | John thought Lottie meant for him to push his mother off a cliff. |
| ahp6x26 | major | Lucy became fed up with her domineering mother's meddling in her love life and did in the old lady with a lethal dose of sleeping medicine. |
| movie: Psycho (1960) | major | Bates had killed his mother. |
| play: Oresteia (458 BC) | major | The point of the story was to debate whether Orestes' slaying of his own mother could possibly be justified. |
| rbt1985e2x06 | major | In the end, Alice was callously murdered by her infant son as revenge for having push out from the womb into this cruel and unwelcoming world. |
| rbt1985e3x11 | major | Wendy and Peter hacked their semi-intelligent virtual reality playroom to bring about the destruction of their recalcitrant parents. |