2. The Importance Of Motherhood...
This is a particularly dominant theme in Fatal Attraction as Alex was unsure if she was able to have children after suffering from a miscarriage the previous year. Conventionally, the woman is seen as a representation of natural and the maternal figure, the fact that Alex is unable to safely carry a child suggests that she differs from the traditional biology of a female. She can be seen as a warning to the audience, suggesting that such active roles adapted by women should remain fictional, as they are immoral, non-passive and anti-maternal figures that do not fit into society. The infiltration of such masculine behaviour would result in a pejoration of social morals and the blurring of boundaries between the defined cultivation of gender roles. When Alex finds out she is pregnant she uses it as a mechanism for control over Dan and she subverts the qualities expected of the maternal; her sexuality overpowers her natural female biology. Instead of using her body to carry a child, she uses as a weapon, it is her tool for her sexual domination. When her deviance becomes more apparent and her sinister intentions begin to unfold to the audience; she is portrayed as a type of dominatrix, similar to that of a black widow spider attracting her prey. Even in nature she would be represented as threatening, subverting the normal ideologies of the female and the notion of Mother Nature.