Post by jakscaletongue on Mar 1, 2016 20:24:49 GMT
Well at least to me I'm not sure if you really need that good of a memory. It's your mother, it's kind of an important person from your life lol. You'd think she'd have at least some memory of her, but she can't remember her.
At the end of the day, I suppose that depends on a person's mother. If her mother was the type to give the raising of her kids to a nurse, then the nurse is the most important person. A mother, or a father, are no more important than they make themselves. Catelyn's a good example of a medieval mother who is actually *involved* in her children's lives. This wasn't very common, at all. IRL, highborn mothers would get pregnant, give birth, and hand baby off to a wetnurse for the first year and various other nurses, governesses, servants, etc afterwards. (Again, EVERY family was different) Commonly, many children would only see their actual parents maybe once in the morning around breakfast and once again before bed - the nurses, governesses and servants were the children's caretakers, and especially in those early years the most important people in the children's lives (those early years, sentiment doesn't matter - children attach to, bond with and remember the people who fed them, cleaned them and kissed their owies; not the people they saw twice a day). Since we have absolutely no idea who Brienne's mother is it makes it even more difficult to determine what *kind* of mother she would have been. But even then, IRL and in fiction, it's not uncommon or weird or wrong to not have memories of your parents if they died when you were young. Especially not visual memories - a particular smell, especially, might remind Brienne of her mother, without ever bringing an accompanying visual memory of her face or anything.