Framing of Meaning of Motherhood in the Television Melodrama "Kong Kam"

Abstract

The Analysis of Image of Motherhood in the Television Melodrama "Krong Kham"

This article purposes to study of image of motherhood from a T.V. drama “Krong Kham” with the narrative structure as the analysis. This T.V. drama presents morals, as well as reflects woman roles and motherhoods in different perspectives. The total of 19 episodes of the drama, which were broadcasted from 26 February to 30 April 2019, were analyzed.

The result shows that the T. V. drama “Krong Kham” has revealed 7 types of mother; 1) Bossy Mother, 2) Aggressive Mother, 3) Dignifies Mother, 4) Selfish Mother, 5) Vindictive Mother, 6) Insulting Mother and 7) Rude Mother, which is considered a “distorting” mother, who gives birth to a child but cannot raise the child according to the social standard.

In addition, the narration starts with a conflict between a mother and a son regarding his wife. The theme of this drama is “You reap what you sow”. The drama presents the major characters by one person at a time, and uses the conflicts to tell the story. At the end, the mothers die with tragic, and it seems too late to realize the fact that “whatever we do, we take the consequences of our action”.

Regarding the Mother’s dialogue of all 19 episodes, it was found that the languages used between the mother and daughter in law are very rude and impolite, which reflects the characteristics of the mothers that she is very bossy, fearless, selfish and self-centered.