Mary Renault's Worldbuilding
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Thesis: A Novel About a Matriarchal Mother Goddess Worshiping Society
Thesis goes around smashing matriarchal societies. He performs a whole series of sort of killing the mother over and over again. And you're right, we are cheering for him all the time. Although it seems to me actually one of the strengths as a novel is you don't have to completely cheer for him. There is this almost sense when you think about what she's doing in the way that she feels about herself and there is an element of gender-hatred in there.
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