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According to the British Medical Journal, “children's characteristic response to the death of a parent is an increase in activity, and behavioral problems may result. (1)” Growing up without a mother or father can lead to irregular psychological and social affects on a child. For healthy children to develop fully, both parents need to be in the child’s life. Genji’s life is no different. Genji’s mother, Kiritsubo, died when he was an infant. Her death and absence has had a profound affect on the way he became as an adult. Growing up seeing his father’s polygamous ways has affected how Genji became towards women. The role of his father and lack of mother contributed to Genji’s promiscuous lifestyle and the eventual cause of his exile to the Suma coast. Genji did not grow up with his biological mother but had many women who played motherly roles. His first motherly figure was his grandmother who watched over him a couple years after his mother’s death. She was very caring and Genji was very close to her. The grandmother passed away when he was six-years-old. “The boy... was old enough to know grief himself. (2)” The death of the grandmother was hard on Genji because she was a close relative, who was his only link to his biological mother. From then on, the only other motherly figures would be the wives or lovers of the Emperor, which whom he had no blood relation to. The next woman to take care of him is the mother of the oldest prince, Kokiden. She was not fully trustworthy because of the resentment she harbored against Genji’s mother when she was alive. She tried to care for him because he was very beautiful. However, when the emperor met Fujitsubo, an almost identical of Kiritsubo, Kokiden’s negativity again arose.
Approximate Word count = 1205
Approximate Pages = 4.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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