D.H. Lawrence "Sons and Lovers"

David Herbert Lawrence was one of the most important and one of the most controversial English writers of the 20th century who wrote novels, short stories, poems, plays, travels books and letters.
Today I‘m going to present his book Sons and Lovers. Firstly, I would like to say that this book is based on Oedipus complex (it is Freud‘s famous theory in which the son unconsciously desires his mother sexually while murderously hating his father).
Secondly, this novel is based on Lawrence‘s own life. Reading this book and his biography we observe that this book uncovers us his (Lawrence‘s) miserable life, complicated relationship with his father, strong and a little twisted mother‘s love.
The action takes place in Bestwood (real name Eastwood). The book opens with the description of the Bottom, a residential development built for the workers‘ families by the mining company. To my mind, D.Lawrence in this book discloces two major themes. First, the author shows abnormally strong mother‘s love to her sons. Second, the author discusses bondage and escape.
When the story begins, Mrs Gertrude Morel, one of the principal characters is about seven months pregnant. She is a small, slight woman of thirty-one who allready has a seven-year-old son, William, and a five-year-old daughter, Annie. Her life like the life of Lydia Lawrence is difficult and she is obviouslly not happy. She despises her brutish, hard-drinking, coal-miner husband and she is “ sick of it, the struggle with poverty and ugliness“. She doesn‘t love her husband and she devotes all of her time to her first son William and later to her second son Paul. In this chapter, at the very beginning of the novel we can find the problems which are discussed through the novel. The author shows us mother‘s love which is very deep and which will mutate...

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