Explore how Carol Churchill presents woman in the role of mother in “Top Girls”

In the first act, Churchill has created a surreal environment for all(a) of the women. We find, during the course of the meal, that all of the women devote things in common. Each of the women had tikeren apart from Isabella. maam Nijo and Griselda however, had to live without liveing their children because of their husbands, in both cases the husbands removed the children. Dull Gret is ordinaryly different, she experienced living with her children and bringing them up, however her oldest and youngest were killed during war.Pope Joan does non know what happened to her violate, as she was stoned to death as soon as she gave birth, she assumes they killed it. Marlene, the attraction of the women had a completely different story to tell, however she does non lecturing of it during Act One. Marlene became pregnant at 17 and let her sister, Joyce adopt the baby because at the time Joyce could not become pregnant. Marlene has since, had two abortions. Griselda, Lady Nijo and Mar lene be all similar in the fact that they all had to sacrifice their children for a particular reason. Griselda sacrificed her children to make the man she loved happy.Griselda does not arrive to the meal until instead late, the other women are all drunk and merry and Griselda appears un noticed. She appears well-bred but shy and does not want to make a niggle but eventually gives into a pudding, Oh if everyone is. I dont mind. Marlene automatically puts her in the blob light by introducing her as having the fairy-story life. All of the women become interested in Griseldas story and begin questioning it. Griselda, whilst palavering appears still faithful to the Marquis, only if of course a wife must obey her husband. And of course I must obey the Marquis. passim the story of Griseldas life, Marlene acts as if she is almost covering off that she already knows the story, Oh, you wait. This shows that Marlene feels a need to be included and in control at all times. Unlike La dy Nijo, Griselda spent half a dozen weeks with her first born, a miss, Nijo finds this hard to believe, Much better to do it back-to-back aside. Only Nijo truly understands Griseldas life and she has been put in the same position, Marlene finds it an prejudice that she let the Walter take her baby, Walter was bonkers and obviously, it will be hard for Gret to fill as she brought up her ingest children, Bastard.Even when everybody else is being un fair and negative about Walter, Griselda remains with her upbeat attitude, whilst still shy she shows her feelings. Griselda takes up oftentimes of the conversation when she arrives, and when this conversation has ended she doesnt splatter much more. Throughout Act One and throughout Griseldas life story Lady Nijo listens, and doesnt talk an awful lot about her background and history. She talks about her noncurrent in and amongst everyone elses conversation, although they listen to her, they do not pay as much attention to her a s they do to Griselda.Lady Nijo does not appear as hurt and as faithful to her children as Griselda did to hers, this is probably because Griselda spent a short time with her children and Nijo did not. Lady Nijos first baby was Akenbonos, a girl and he received it and brought it up with his wife. Her second, was to an unknown and the third and fourth children were Ariake the priests. Nijo neer saw her third child after it was born and admits feeling zippo at all for her third son, her fourth child. I conceive of that this is because Ariake had died in advance the birth and she was still grieving him, I didnt want to see anyone. In Act Two Scene Two we are introduced to Marlene, a mention brought in from Act One, Joyce, Marlenes sister, Angie, Joyces daughter and Marlenes niece and Kit, Angies friend.The following scene signs mainly on Marlenes niece, Angie and her younger friend, Kit. We begin to realise that Angie maybe slightly simple and exuberant as she talks to Kit about controlling objects with her mind and things dropping from the walls in her house, Last night I was in furnish and on the spur of the moment a picture fell down off the wall. The pair continually ignore Angies start out, Joyce, shouting them from the house. This shows disrespect of the children to their mother. The childlike attitude of the children pushs throughout the play, they continue to ignore the mother shouting and continue bantering as children would, I dont want her to like me. This eventually progresses into Angie nominateing that Joyce is not her biological mother, and Marlene, her aunt, is. I think Im my aunts child. I think my mothers really my aunt.For a girl of Angies mentality to suggest something as complex as this must suggest that her and Joyce do not have a loving, sharing consanguinity, however, Angies only explanation for this suggestion is my mother hates her. We learn further on in Scene Two that Joyce does not think very highly of Angie I dont know whod have her, mind. This seems singular for a mother to say to another child about her own daughter. This is possibly where Churchill is trying to insinuate that, at heart, Joyce does not care for her child as much as a normal mother would. display cracks in the couples, mother daughter relationship.Another loss of respect amidst Joyce and Angie is shown when Joyce calls her a Fucking rotten little cunt. And states You can stay at that place and die, this either shows that Joyce is now sick of Angie not listening to her or if she just does not have enough respect for her. Act trio actually happens a year before Act Two happens. then the old dress that Angie puts on in Act Two, is the dress that Marlene gives her as a present in Act Three. Marlene and Joyce seem to have an steamy relationship, they are constantly bickering when Marlene first arrives, I dont mind comprehend you. Great, I feel really welcome. The pair wait until Angie has gone to bed before talking about he r and her life, Angie refuses to go to sleep fore quite a while because her aunty is in that location, but eventually she gives in. Joyce then begins to talk about Angie, I dont know how you could leave your own child. , Marlene does not play off badly to this vicious statement, she simply replies, You were quick enough to take her. I feel that this shows that Marlene does not know how much Joyce has done for her.She obviously does not appreciate that Joyce has brought Angie up the best that she could so that Marlene could move away and concentrate on her career. Joyce begins to take ownership of Angie as the argument continues, showing that she has a bond with her child, motherly love. Course I do, shes my child. Instead of moving away and liquidateting a job and making money, Joyce took Marlenes baby and gave it a life. The relationship between Marlene and Joyce begins to break up as the two begin to institutionalize each other for the mistakes they have made in life, I did get pregnant and I lost it because I was so tired flavour after your fucking baby. The Act ends with Joyce and Marlene apologising and Joyce going to bed, leaving Marlene alone to have another drink. Angie then wakes up calling for her mother and walks downstairs, when Angie realises that its Marlene sat there and Joyce has gone to bed she only mutters two words, frightening frightening. This symbolises Angies bizarreness and simple mindedness. Is she mouth about the conversation between Joyce and Marlene or is she speaking about the fact that she thought Marlene was her mother ?