Gemma Teller, Mother, Wife, and The Secret Voice of the Club

It is very surprising to know that our mind creates connections and patterns in various ways. For instance, earlier this week I was watching the season finale of the Sons of Anarchy and was reminded of an important character whose name was Gemma Teller. She was a key character throughout the series because she controlled most, if not all the outcomes; where people either died or lived depending on her version of loyalty versus betrayal to the club or to the family. Of course, there were other variables, including greed, and reasonable decision-making skills that were suppose to create a better club. Gemma is basically the individual behind scenes that either influences or tells what the club “Sons of Anarchy” should do, due to her relationships with the president(s) of the club. When the club first started she was married and her first husband J.T., and once she saw that he wasn’t performing to Gemma’s expectations she and Clay Morrow then devised a plan to kill J.T. As years went by and slowly Jax Teller, who was Gemma Teller’s son slowly found out as to what had become of his father. As he began to the pieces to the puzzle, the club had its constant problems or drugs, war, gang retaliation and of course keeping their family at peace. Soon as the show approached to Season 6, Clay was out of the picture and Jack’s had become president of the club. As a result Gemma always had her hand in the cookie jar, even when it wasn’t suppose to be there. Gemma Teller was also the villain in Season 7 since (spoiler alert) she had killed someone close to Jax Teller, someone very important that played a key role Jax’s family’s future. Gemma life was ended in the second to last episode in Season 7 when Jax killed her by shooting her in the back of the head in his grandfather backyard, which was a beautiful flower garden. But the bigger question is, why would a son kill his own mother? Well this was one of the climaxes in the last season, matter of fact the whole series. This was when Gemma had been broken when her boyfriend wanted some space to handle some business because he was the mediator and it could go ugly at anytime and not having her in his business was the best move. Right after Gemma then found out Tara Knowles (Jax’s Wife and Jax’s second sons wife, she was currently taking care of both sons) was going to cut a deal with D.A. However, what Gemma did not know was the both Jax and Tara agreed that it would be best for them to get a divorce. In addition, to move the kids away from Charming, otherwise known as Lodi, California (where the show is centered) because of death, bloodshed, and various evils. Basically, they did not want their kids to grow up in a town where such bad influences will corrupt their lives. Gemma misinterpreted the whole situation and took it as betrayal upon the club, herself, and mainly Gemma. Her way of justifying the situation was to kill her and raise the kids with Wendy (Jax’s first sons wife). Gemma didn’t kill Tara with just a simple bullet; instead she banged her head against the wall, and then drowned her in the sink while stabbing her with a steak fork. Such a brutal death with blood stained and pooled around her resulted Jax in reacting with rage, revenge, and most of all the pain. However, what he didn’t know was that his own mother had done that. Gemma could have easily solved the problem by just telling Jax about it instead she decided to take matter into her own hands by thinking she could save her family. Gemma values as derived from her experiences thus establishing maternal instincts and domination of the household. This moment was triggered when thinking about women who controlled the domestic life from my previous post, Tartuffe – Moliere v. Hedda Gabler – Henrik Ibsen.