Prejudicial Motherhood in Armando Lucas Correa’s Novel the Daughter’s Tale (2019)

This thesis is an analysis of a novel entitled The Daughter's Tale (2019) by Armando Lucas Correa. This analysis reveals prejudicial motherhood experienced by a mother found in the literary work. Prejudicial motherhood influences a mother to create prejudicial decisions when facing life-death situations for her family's survival. This analysis uses the psychoanalysis theory by Sigmund Freud to explain the problems of this novel. In this analysis, the protagonist's prejudicial motherhood can be seen in two ways: how she makes the decisions and the effects of her decisions on the family when they are trapped in the Nazi persecution as Jews people. This analysis also depends on the novel's quotations of the protagonist's point of view. There are two findings in this analysis. First, the forms of prejudicial motherhood; difficulties to make right decisions and perilous decisions. Second, the effects of prejudicial motherhood to Amanda’s family; family separation and the death of Amanda Sternberg. The result of the study shows Amanda Sternberg experienced prejudicial motherhood in making crucial decisions for her family's survival.