Scarica Lawrence - Sons and Lovers e più Sintesi del corso in PDF di Lingue e letterature classiche solo su Docsity! LAWRENCE He published many novels and poetry volumes during his life, including Sons and Lovers and Women in Love, but is best known for his infamous Lady Chatterley's Lover. He wrote this work in Italy in 1927 after he discovered he had tuberculosis. Sons and lovers This is an autobiographical novel, because Lawrence corresponds with Paul. The protagonists are the members of the morel family. Mr. and Mrs. Morel are always in conflict and for this reason their sons are estranged from their father and strongly attached to their mother. Paul is her favourite, but this relationship will be the cause of many unpleasant events in Paul’s life. In fact, he is unable to sustain a relationship with any woman; he decides that he does not want to marry Miriam, and so he breaks off with her. Later, he meets Clara, a married woman and a suffragette, and they begin an extremely passionate affair. After Mrs. Morel’s death, Paul is torn between the wish to rejoin his mother in death or go on living. In the end, he decides to go on living. setting The "Bottoms" is a housing estate for coalminers, built on the site of an old estate which was called "Hell Row". It lies at the foot of the hill underneath the larger, finer houses of Bestwood. The front of the houses in "The Bottoms," which face out onto the street, look pretty and the gardens are neatly kept and full of flowers. The back doors, however, open onto a grimy alley facing the "ash pits." themes • Oedipus complex- Lawrence/Paul was devoted to his mother, and Lawrence/Paul hated his father and often imagined his death; • Women's Work and Women's Rights - Paul's attitude towards women is defined by his love for his mother, Mrs. Morel, which leads him to compare his female lovers with her; • Nature and Industrialism - suggesting that human beings are not separate from the natural world but rather extensions of it; • Contradictions and oppositions - contradictions in human nature, especially with love and hate; • Nature and flowers - the weather and environment reflect the characters' emotions, Lawrence uses flowers throughout the novel to symbolize these deep connections. style • Omniscient narrator limiting authorial interventions; • The point of view is the characters'; • They are portrayed through "showing" and "telling" techniques, and their feelings are revealed by the use of rhythm (repetitions, alliterations, assonance) and words and images linked to senses.
