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Mining village in Nottinghamshire David Herbert Lawrence their feelings r revealed by means of a remarkable variety of rhythm and of words and images particularly linked to senses 1885, Eastwood His father was a miner and worked in a coal pit throughout his life The happiness of their marriage was short- lived because he had turned into a heavy drinkerDavid escaped the miner's destiny through education and poor physical health This story is tools in the autobiographical novel “Sons and Lovers” (1913) WwI put their English-German marriage under some stress 1920 traveled with his wife throughout the world: Italy, Australia (“Kangaroo (1923)), Mexico (“The Plumed Series (1926)), South France DIED OF TUBERCULOSIS (1930) Lawrence is a revolutionary force in the English novel because of his view of life, his fights against the mechanical and artificial aspects of industrial in and his penetrating analysis of relations between the sexes deeply concerned with emotional life, with the motions created by alienation He considered man as a mixture of culture and biology, of natural impulses and instincts “Mind knowledge” is the separation of human intellectual powers from “flesh and blood”, from natural impulses to fall prey, to degeneration Of all the natural impulses, the sexual one is the strongest, so only a new type of relationship between men and women based on sensual passions and sexuality can save humanity from self-destruction Sex and history r 2 ≠ aspects of the = reality His concept of women went against the new social role they acquired, his political opinions were against industrial capitalism: he considered women only as an instrument 4 mankind's happiness He met Lydia Beardsall, a woman of a higher class who had been a school teacher Lydia spent the rest of her life encouraging her children to advance beyond their restrictive mining environment MAIN FEATURES OF HIS NOVELS His female charachters r sensitive girls, aware of essential “otherness” of their partners, whose intellectual and sexual supremacy they accept He was a handsome man and an excellent dancer He studied hard to become a teacher and was accepted by Nottingham University College, where he gained his teacher's certificate (1908) he had begun writing poetry and he published his 1st novel “The White Peacock” (1911) When his brother Ernest died he became the centre of his mother’s emotional life 1908 he started teaching in a suburb of London and experienced life in the metropolis In 1910 his mother died, he continued teaching until 1912 He had a bad attack of pneumonia Polmonite He met and fell in love with Frieda von Richthofen Weekley, the German wife of a French professor at Nottingham Uni they eloped to Germany and Italy and matured in 1914 fuggitiLawrence was prolific in this period writing poems: “The Rainbow” (1915) and “Women in Love” (1920) A few novels were banned by the censors: “The Rainbow”, “Women in Love” (the sequel), “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” (written in 1928, published in GB and USA in 1960s TRADITIONAL OMNISCIENT NARRATOR, limiting the authorial interventions to the minimum POINT OF VIEW is that of THE CHARACTERS They r portrayed through the techniques of “showing” and “telling” Sons and Lovers autobiographical and meditation on the Oedipus complex Mrs Morel (wife of a Derbyshire coal miner) is expecting 3rd child, Paul CENTRAL FIGURE OF THE STORY Her life with her husband has turned out to be a complete failure The children r estranged from their father and attached to their mother Paul is her favourite, ABNORMALLY close relationship proves unsettling He’s unable to sustain a fulfilling relationship with any woman He rejects Miriam (1st girlf) bcs a physical relationship with her is impossible) He has an affair with Clara Dawes (married woman and supporter of women’s rights) who satisfies the sexual component of his ascent to manhood but leaves him without a complete relationship to challenge his love 4 his mother After Mrs Morel’s death, Paul is torn between the wish to rejoin his mother in death or go on living PLOT AND SETTING It deals with Lawrence’s personal experiences in a working-class environment in Nottinghamshire OEDIPUS COMPLEX Lawrence used Sigmund Freud’s Oedipus complex to explore Paul’s relationship with his mother and he can’t love any woman as much as he loves his mother After his mother’s death, Paul is psychologically adrift, unable to resolve his Oedipal desires CHARACTERS Paul’s psychological development doesn’t take place in a social void His father is a miner and his mother belongs to higher social class Mr Morel’s estrangement from the emotional life of the family is due to this social difference alienates him from his own children and brings them to their mother his lack of education makes it difficult 4 him to express his feelings and the hard nature of his work leads him to domestic violence which drives the children deeper into their mother’s arms Mrs Morel is educated and determined She symbolises what the young Paul hopes to achieve THEMES Mrs Morel is socially bound by her status as a woman and by industrialism She feels “buried alive” which is logical lament 4 someone married to a miner She must remain a housewife 4 life, so she’s jealous of Miriam, who had more opportunities to employ her intellect Mrs Morel is attracted to her vigorous husband because he’s different from her refined, intellectual naturePaul’s attraction to Miriam is less intense than his desire 4 the sensual, physical Clara The novel records the emotional process as experienced by Paul, but doesn’t quite communicate the process itself His fascination of primitive and natural human passions led him to a deep fear of modern civilisation (DEHUMANISING) and admiration of nature Romantic bondage is given far more emphasis in the novel: Paul della feels bound to his mother and he often loves and hates at the same time, especially Miriam Lawrence uses the opposition of the body and mind to expose the contradictory nature of desire STYLE 3RD PERSON, but all the events are seen through Paul’s eyes He succeeds in shaking off his past natural objects (flowers) symbolise his awareness of the negative power of industrialisation and the chaotic frenzy of city life