Read the excerpt from "The Story of a Warrior Queen." When Boadicea saw that all hope was gone, she called her daughters to her. "My children," she said sadly, as she took them by the hand and drew them towards her, "my children, it has not pleased the gods of battle to deliver us from the power of the Romans. But there is yet one way of escape." Tears were in her blue eyes as she kissed her daughters. She was no longer a queen of fury but a loving mother. Which archetype does Boadicea, the queen of the Britons, best represent?
Boadicea faces defeat and recognizes that there is no hope of escaping the Romans’ power. Her sorrowful farewell to her daughters shows her suffering in a doomed situation, which fits the archetype of the tragic heroine. She is not presented as a villain or sage; the passage emphasizes her tragic fate and her love as a mother.
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