 Several critics have focused on the theme of motherhood . In " Mothers and <unk> / <unk> and <unk> " , Claire Sprague wrote that Lessing often <unk> on the theme of mothers passing their <unk> onto their daughters , and how the cycle of daughters fighting their mothers <unk> each generation . The British novelist Jane Rogers said that The Good Terrorist " is as <unk> and <unk> about motherhood as it is about the extreme left " . She stated that motherhood here " is terrible " : Alice 's mother is reduced to despair continually yielding to her selfish daughter 's demands ; Alice mothers Jasper , and has a similar <unk> relationship with him . Rogers added that motherhood is depicted here as a <unk> to protect the weak , despite their <unk> to retaliate and hurt you . 
