Motherly instincts

the last two things we have dealth with, aliens and graceling both have women as the main characters and both are dealing with their maternal instincts.  Ripley throughout the film is taking care of newt, from the moment she finds her she reaches out and si caring, makes sure she gets clean wipes the dirt off her face and makes it her duty to protect her from harm.  She also finds a way when all hope is lost in the medical center to alert somneone so that newt can be saved from the alien sapling.  Actually now thinking back on it one the first scenes in the film deals with ripley asking birk what happened to her daughter who we later find ouyt is dead.  I feel there is definitely some transference there where ripley tries to save newt and mother her to make up for the daughter whose life she missed, just like the dallas cowboys drafted dez bryant in a tranferent attempt to make up for promising to take randy moss another highly skilled but trooubled player that they missed out on.  i do beleive ripley has a genuine affection for newt but i also feel that transference played a large role in why she went back in the end of the film to svaer newt, i beleive she felt that she had alreayd lost one little girl and was determined to not lose another.  As for Katsa she takes on a maternal role in fighting the mountain lion to help bitterblue and leanrs of a maternal instinct she did not know sher had in her.