儿子与情人 英文介绍简介
儿子与情人-英文介绍简介PPT课件
Morel is
disappointed, so she
rests her hope on
her first son---
. William.
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Unfortunately,
William dies, Mrs.
Morel is depressed.
She gives all love to
her little son --- Paul.
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My Views
• I think Paul is a poor man. His mother’s love tortures Paul all the time. When Mrs. Morel dies, she takes away his spirit prop.
• Through this book, the author describes the same experience in his childhood.
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Paul’s mother
marries Mr. Morel
early. Sen. But as a
miner, Mr. Morel’s
temper is getting
worse, he always
fights and argues
with his wife. Mrs.
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Sons And Lovers
Author —— David Herbert
Lawrence
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About the Author
An famous English writer and poet.
A member of a mining family
儿子与情人翻译
Sons and lovers《儿子与情人》导读《儿子与情人》是英国作家劳伦斯的成名作。
小说叙述一个经典爱情故事。
书中的第一代是瓦尔特·莫雷尔和格特鲁德夫妇。
瓦尔特原本充满了活力，乐观、讨人喜欢；后来却脾气变坏，酗酒打人，对丈夫失望的妻子遂将希望寄托在儿子身上。
但是她钟爱的长子威廉不幸早夭，随之对次子保罗产生了强烈的感情。
而保罗的两个女朋友却有不同的爱情观，让他无所适从。
母亲去世后，保罗决定离开家乡，到城市去。
单词Wordserect [ɪ'rekt] vt. 使竖立；建造；安装vigorous /ˈvɪɡərəs/ adj. 有力的；精力充沛的animation /ˈænɪˈmeɪʃən/ n. 活泼，生气；激励；卡通片绘制grotesque /ɡrəʊˈtɛsk/ n. 奇异风格；怪异的东西adj. 奇形怪状的；Intellectual /ˈɪntɪˈlɛktʃʊəl/ adj. 智力的；聪明的；理智的subdued /səbˈdjuːd/ adj. 减弱的；被制服的；被抑制的ornament /ˈɔːnəmənt/ n. 装饰；[建][服装] 装饰物；教堂用品vt. 装饰，修饰candour /ˈkændə/ n. 正直，公正；直率；洁白refugee /ˈrɛfjʊˈdʒiː/ n. 难民，避难者；流亡者，逃亡者sensuous /ˈsɛnsjʊəs/ adj. 感觉上的，依感观的；诉诸美感的Words and EpressionsWhen she was twenty-three years old, she met, at a Christmas party, a young man from the Erewash Valley. Morel was then twenty-seven years old. He was well set-up, erect, and very smart. He had wavy black hair that shone again, and a vigorous black beard that had never been shaved. His cheeks were ruddy, and his red, moist mouth was noticeable because he laughed so often and so heartily. He had that rare thing, a rich, ringing laugh. Gertrude Coppard had watched him, fascinated. He was so full of colour and animation, his voice ran so easily into comic grotesque, he was so ready and so pleasant with everybody. Her own father had a rich fund of humour, but it was satiric. This man's was different: soft, non-intellectual, warm, a kind of gambolling.She herself was opposite. She had a curious, receptive mind which found much pleasure and amusement in listening to other folk. She was clever in leading folk to talk. She loved ideas, and was considered very intellectual. What she liked most of all was an argument on religion or philosophy or politics with some educated man. This she did not often enjoy. So she always had people tell her about themselves, finding her pleasure so.In her person she was rather small and delicate, with a large brow,and dropping bunches of brown silk curls. Her blue eyes were very straight, honest, and searching. She had the beautiful hands of the Coppards. Her dress was always subdued. She wore dark blue silk, with a peculiar silver chain of silver scallops. This, and a heavy brooch of twisted gold, was her only ornament. She was still perfectly intact, deeply religious, and full of beautiful candour.Walter Morel seemed melted away before her. She was to the miner that thing of mystery and fascination, a lady. When she spoke to him, it was with a southern pronunciation and a purity of English which thrilled him to hear. She watched him. He danced well, as if it were natural and joyous in him to dance. His grandfather was a French refugee who had married an English barmaid--if it had been a marriage. Gertrude Coppard watched the young miner as he danced, a certain subtle exultation like glamour in his movement, and his face the flower of his body, ruddy, with tumbled black hair, and laughing alike whatever partner he bowed above. She thought him rather wonderful, never having met anyone like him. Her father was to her the type of all men. And George Coppard, proud in his bearing, handsome, and rather bitter; who preferred theology in reading, and who drew near in sympathy only to one man, the Apostle Paul; who was harsh in government, and in familiarity ironic; who ignored all sensuous pleasure:--he was very different from the miner. Gertrude herself was rather contemptuous of dancing; she had not theslightest inclination towards that accomplishment, and had never learned even aRoger de Coverley. She was puritan, like her father, high-minded, and really stern. Therefore the dusky, golden softness of this man's sensuous flame of life, that flowed off his flesh like the flame from a candle, not baffled and gripped into incandescence by thought and spirit as her life was, seemed to her something wonderful, beyond her.长难句解析Walter Morel seemed melted away before her. She was to the miner that thing of mystery and fascination,沃尔特莫雷尔似乎在她之前为她着迷，她对于矿工来说是神秘和充满吸引力的。
儿子与情人英文论文
英美文学课程论文论文题目：MY ANALYSIS OF POSSESSION ANDOEDIPUS COMPLEX IN SONS ANDLOVERS----对《儿子与情人》中占有欲以及恋母情结的分析学生姓名：学号：班级：完成日期：2010年11月22日My Analysis of Possession and Oedipus complex in Sons andLoversAbstractDavid Herbert Lawrence is one of the greatest English novelists of the 20th century. During his life-long literary career, he had written more than ten novels and several short stories. He wrote a lot of great works, one of his most popular novels is Sons and Lovers. This novel is about the life of the Morels’ family. Mr. Morel, Mrs. Morel, willwam, Paul, Miriam and Clara are the main characters in this novel. The author develops the story by portraying the relationships between these characters. But the end of the relationship is a tragedy. And nowadays we also can find this kind of tragedy there and here in the world. It’s because of the possession that cause the tragedy .This thesis will prove this view from the possession of different relationships. That’s the possession of wife to husband, the possession of mother to sons, and the possession of two girl friends to Paul and Paul's Oedipus complex to analyze the destruction of possession.Key words: Oedipus complex；tragedy；relationship；Possession对《儿子与情人》中占有欲以及恋母情结的分析摘要劳伦斯是20世纪最伟大的英国小说家之一。
《儿子与情人》论文：《儿子与情人》中的男性气质
《儿子与情人》论文：《儿子与情人》中的男性气质【中文摘要】D. H.劳伦斯是20世纪英国的杰出文学家,《儿子与情人》是他的第三部小说,也是他的第一部重要的小说。
故事发生在19世纪工业化的英国,以一个名叫河川区的矿区为背景,描写了矿工莫瑞尔一家的生活以及他的几个子女的成长经历。
国内外许多专家学者从不同视角对《儿子与情人》进行了解读,但大多专注于心理分析或者文本解读,而针对莫瑞尔父子三人男性气质的研究的论文却不多见。
就国内外《儿子与情人》的研究现状而言,评论家主要以心理分析和文本分析为理论依据,围绕文本中的两个主要人物保罗和他的母亲莫瑞尔太太进行分析。
事实上,保罗的父亲莫瑞尔和兄长威廉在小说中也有很重要的地位,他们理应得到关注。
莫瑞尔及其子威廉和保罗的生活经历是三部不同的有关男性气质的历史。
莫瑞尔的经历是一部充满挫折及心酸的历史;威廉的经历是一部激情与不安并存的历史;保罗的经历则是一部有惊无险的历史。
本论文共分三个部分。
第一部分包括《儿子与情人》国内外研究现状的综述、本论文的研究问题、研究、研究方法、及论文的整体框架。
第二部分(论文的第一、二、三、四章)是论文的主干部分,分别论述了男性气质的理论,莫瑞尔,威廉及保罗的男性气质维护和建构历史。
第一章是男性气质研究的简要历史,介绍了这一概念的产生发展史及在不同历史时期的不同体现。
本章还介绍了澳大利亚社会学家康奈尔对不同类型男性气质的界定,说明了莫瑞尔、威廉和保罗分别代表了康奈尔划分的共谋性、支配性边缘性的男性气质。
第二章是关于莫瑞尔受伤的男性气质。
首先论述了莫瑞尔太太如何尽力将丈夫的男性气质消解,及莫瑞尔如何尽最大努力来维护其共谋性男性气质。
其次论述了莫瑞尔家的子女们,在其母亲的教唆下,如何伙同他们的母亲将父亲的男性气质消解掉,及莫瑞尔怎样维护自己作为男性的尊严的。
第三章分析了威廉建构支配性男性气质的过程。
威廉从小就有建立支配性男性气质的雄心,其雄心得到了母亲充分的挖掘与培养。
儿子与情人
"'Why don't you like her,mother?' 'I don't know my boy,'she said,'I've tried,but I can't.' " （“妈妈，为什么你不喜欢她呢？‘“孩子，我也不知道”她说，“我试过了
但是我就是没有办法喜欢她。”）
fervent: adj. 热切的
hygienist: n.卫生学者 ------sleep is most perfect,in spite of hygienist, when it is shared with a beloved convalescence:n.恢复期-----In convalescence,everything was wonderful. obsequiously: adj.谄媚的,巴结奉承的 ------Morrell bowed obsequiously.
"She cared greatly for the child and the father was jealous.Morel's temper had become so bad that when the child cried he would hit it.Mrs.Morel would scream at him and he would leave to get drunk. She knew now that he had never stopped drinking."（她对孩子们非常好，这
让孩子们的父亲很嫉妒。所以当孩子哭闹的时候莫瑞尔先生就会发脾气，然后会离开家去喝酒，她知 道他从来就没有戒酒）
(完整word版)儿子与情人英文读书报告
Book Report of Sons and LoversThe book which written by D.H. Lawrence is mainly about love between a son and his mother. The first half of the novel focuses on the love between Paul and his mother, while the rest is about different kinds of love between Paul and two girls.The elder son in the family is William who is a lawyer in London. Paul is the second son, whose mother was born in a middle-class family and she is cultured while his father is a miner in Nottinghamshire mine. His parents fall in love at first sight at a party and they live happily after they get married. Then they make money to support the family together.Their happy time just lasts for a short time. After doing heavy work and seeing many colliery accidents, the father’s temper becomes very grumpy. The mother gets tired of her husband when seeing her drunken husband come back very late. They quarrel frequently and sometimes the husband even beats his wife. Paul’s mother usually hurts deeply after fighting. Day by day, she shows no interest in her husband, but devotes all her love and hope to her children, which results malformed motherly love. William has died of overwork. Then the mother puts all her love to Paul. She encourages Paul to enter high class and become a famous person who can bring fame for her. In order to make up the defect in her marriage, she manages to make Paul not fall in love with other woman. She wants to control Paul’s spirit and even regards Paul as her ideal lover. The love from his mother deeply locks him up in a dark room and he cannot get out of it. Also, he feels painful.Milian and Clara are two girlfriends of Paul. Paul has many interests in common with Milian, but she pursues fulfillment of her spirit too excessively and she is lack of passion. What’s more, she becomes the enemy of Paul’s mother. Paul has to consider his mother’s feeling even if he loves Milian. Clara lives in the lower class, separated her husband. She has a good relationship with Paul at first. However, they break up soon because the love between them is just lifeless.After Paul’s mother has died, Paul gets rid of the fetter of his mother’s spiritual control. He could have been reconciled with Milian, but he still rejects her wedding request and chooses to be solitude in the end.Motherly love is great but unilateral. It can only be the children’s love if it should be rewarded. However, the writer challenges the concept. He turns the love between the mother and the son into the love between lovers, which brings negative spirited burden to the son and the mother. The end is doomed to be a tragedy because it is against normal social ethic. But this kind of love is worthy to be thought about.。
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Sons and loversThe Bestwood locates in the boundary of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, here the story takes place. With the development of industry, more and more coalminers flood in this small village and more accommodation are built. “The houses themselves were substantial and decent” as it says, nasty alley of ash-pits and dirty yard make people fell ill.To Mrs. Morel, life here is solely …struggle with poverty and ribald‟. She was born in a middle class family, whose father and grandfather once won lots of glory. As a teacher she had been, she has a good command of knowledge and speaks Standard English. In the contrast, her husband Mr. Morel, who works in the mine since he was ten, was deprived of right to be educated. He speaks entire slang disobeying grammatical rules.At the time when Mr. Morel courted to Mrs. Morel and she married him, she never expected that all she enjoyed as a middle class would be robbed of or she would suffer from social ignorance and economical shortage. No one can deny that Mrs. Morel‟s acceding to his proposal is an act on impulse. After life betrays his real character----rudeness, addition to alcohol, no responsibility, in fact there are endless shortcomings in her eyes. When the excitement and passion fade away and Mrs. Morel wakes up to real life, she realizes to fight against to life.As a result, Mrs. Morel turns all love to her children especially two sons. She paid most attention to her first son----William at beginning. Life pushes William to leave the poor condition home for London, he‟s eager to earn a better life, which is also the dream of his mother. Life always plays joke on poor man, when everything goes smoothly, William falls in love with a …noble‟ girl who is clerk in fact. He is so absorbed in her that puts all his energy to create a wonderful life for her. Finally, William ends his life alone in an early age.And misfortunate never comes singly, the second son Paul has pneumonia dangerously. He is very ill, his mother lies in bed at nights with him and takes care of him for 7weeks. Eventually, he gets up white and fragile. At this point, Mrs. Morel puts full love on Paul, which is beyond that a mother should give to a child.The first part of novel comes to a conclusion here. In this class society, every character in the story has his\her response to the social status.Mrs. Morel, a naïve and impulsive middle class, gets a flash marriage with a miner, considering no results of being a laboring class. But regret works none, although she has a good command of language of language, as a female, there is no work position for her. Being a household wife, she can do noting change the situation. Instead, Mrs. Morel turns all his unsatisfication toward her husband, railing him, cursing him and insulting him. When people feel hopeless to themselves, they always seek console from others.William, Mrs. Morel‟s first consolation, he does gets rid of chains as born in laboring family to some degree. With his mother‟s expectation----never follow the old disastrous road his father walked, William goes London to make a living. The high salary he makes gives him a little bit confidence that he is a middle class to a certain extent. But at the moment he meets the …noble miss‟ Western, it‟s obvious his little pride is all gone. He admires her, maybe just the …identification‟, and the …social statuses‟. William is so eager to establish a intimate relation with her that he can be a an upper class in shortcut. Finally, his dream breaks up, the melancholy of laboring class goes to a deeper level.The most annoying and poor character in the novel is definitely Mr. Morel. He actually has countless immoralities, indeed, as a husband, he cleans the room and prepares lunch for wife as she‟s ready to bear a baby; as a father, he waits anxiously for William to go back home for Christmas Eve. Even if his wife complains he is …a man there‟s not five minutes of peace‟, his children all stand on mother‟s side. Being laboring class, no education or poor work condition, all those don‟t hurt him or even make sense. What‟s more harmful is that he is …alone ‟ all his life, just owned short-lived love and no-warmth family. But who can tell the reasons? No one. But he himself should be to blame. Maybe, numbness is a characteristic of laboring class, they‟re used to be suffered, and can‟t distinguish soreness at all.The next part of novel is developing around Paul, his mother, Mirian, a pride girl and a married woman, Clara.Brought up by Mrs. Morel‟s careful love, Paul grows up to a bashful and asocial boy. He goes to Willy Farm and gets familiar with the Leiver‟s, and meets the pride girl Marian. …She herself was something of princess turned into a swine girl in her own imagination‟. T he girl is romantic in her soul and inclined to be mystical, there is such a treasure religion inside her. She believes love is all from god, yearning foe pure love. In her mind, it‟s such a sacrifice if her body and soul all belong to Paul, as a result, she always keeps Paul at arm‟s length. And she is sick of sex, regarding it as filthy, she insist that the relationship between them is just …friend‟. Paul desires to be satisfied physically, however, he can‟t even touch her. He hates Marian, who refuses his proposal, although he is mentally faithful to her. Marian knows Paul‟s mind better than himself that he tries to get rid of her but in vain, she‟s just waiting him to yield to her.Not long after, Paul is captivated by married woman, Clara. Although her mature sex gives him physically satisfaction, his heart is full of Mirian.All in all, Mrs. Morel is the most important woman in his life. When Mrs. Morel recognizes that there is such a girl making her son so distracted, how can she bear that. She loves him, even regards him as her lover, what if any other woman rob him of. Anger and envy come to her.There are different conflicts on every character of the story. Mirian loves Paul, but it can‟t be called …love‟ in her mind, for the only she can give is …friendship‟. She seeks soul free, believes that love is a gift from god. Actually, she falls love in a normal man, although she denies it. She hates sex, it‟s evil and disgusting, but she longs for staying with Paul and getting close to him. Caused by all reasons, she finally loses her lover, doing nothing, she just waits him for back.It‟s so normal for a hot-blood youngster thirsting for sex, although he has an unsuitable lover. Every one sees he loves Mirian to bone that his mother is so envious to her. By saying ‟I am old ,and therefore I may stand aside, I have nothing more to do. You only want me to wait on you ---- the rest is for Mirian.‟She just wants to draw Paul‟s attention. On the other side, Paul can‟t stop his love to mother, which is beyond love between mother and son. He denies his love to Mirian is in face of Mrs. Morel,‟I don‟t love her, he murmured, bowing his head and hiding his eyes on her shoulder in misery. His mother gave him a long, fervent kiss.‟ These intimate behavior always stimulate Paul‟s mind, he loves Mrs. Morel. He even tells her one day she lives, he‟ll never find a suitable woman to marry.Some one may condemn this abnormal love, but considering in a more rational way, it‟s acceptable. In a certain situation, such as in poverty, exploited, war, people lack sense of security extremely. They look for dependants and love instinctively. As soon as they get it, they‟ll hold this life-saving straw and have a special emotion on them for the rest of their life, even if they are safe enough. When the son and mother spend those exceedingly hard days together, they‟ve been psychologically dependence to each other. Love between them is just a representation of the dependence.When Mrs. Morel suffers from cancer and goes from bad to worse. Paul feeds her milk with morphine and kills her. He fell it relaxing as if relieves of a heavy load. Since he can do nothing to save his mother or even make her feel better. It must be widest decision to relieve Mrs. Morel from physical suffering and Paul from mental torment.From loving mother to killing mother and getting rid of lover and mistress, Paul becomes a mature male. He starts a brand new life just himself.。
英文论文关于(儿子与情人 )sons and lovers
The Interpretation of the flowers in Sons and Lovers左AbstractSons and Lovers, written by DH Lawrence, is an earlier works that reflects both penetrating social problem and psychological problem. The theme of the novel is Paul Morel's relationship with his mother and her influence upon his development. This paper will talk about the symbol meanings of the flowers. In this novel, different flowers symbolize the three main different women, and reveal their human qualities, such as white lily symbolizes the pure mother's love; white roses and narcissi imply Miriam's pure spirit, whereas Miriam's intimacy to the flowers indicates that her tendency of possessing objects including Paul's soul; The crimson flowers refer to the passion of Clara. Here, the paper studies the relationship between flowers and main characters, showing that analyzing the meaning of the flowers is important to help us have a better understanding of the theme in the novel.Key words: flowers, relationship, characterIntroductionLawrence's novels are always full of vivid descriptions of natural environment to show that human beings need to live in a healthy and natural world. Also the natural objects such as trees, flowers, the moon and evenings imply symbolic meanings to make the novel significant. To understand the novel better, this paper tries to use a Semiotics approach to interpret the main symbols, so as to reveal the theme of the novel.In Classics of Semiotics edited by Martin Krampen, Semiotics is thus defined: As a science of sign processes, semiotics investigates all types of communication and information exchange among human beings, animals, plants, internal systems of organisms. Thus it encompasses most of the subject areas of the arts and the social science, as well as those of biology and medicine. According to this theory, there should be some certain connections between the different flower symbols and thethree different kinds of women characters.Chapter one: The Flowers Related to Mrs. Morel Everything Paul does is for his mother. As it is, the flowers he picked can prove us that his mother is his only intimate and his only confidant. We can see this unnatural love at any occasion in the novel:Then Paul fished out a little spray. He always brought her one spray, the best he could find. (63)"Here's a bit of new-mown hay," he said; then, again, he brought her forget-me-nots. And, again, his heart hurt with love, seeing her hand, used with work, holding the little bunch of flowers he gave her. She was perfectly happy." (114)When Paul takes his mother to Lincoln, She was bright and enthusiastic as ever, but as he sat opposite her in the railway carriage, she seemed to look frail. He had a momentary sensation as if she were sleeping away from him. Then he wanted to get hold of her, to fasten, almost to chain her. He felt he must keep hold of her with his hand. And later he bought her some blue violets. (222)We know that the mother's love to the son is abnormal, but they are not aware of it. And even this feeling grows unconsciously just like the scyllas flowers growing quietly when Mrs. Morel doesn't know:Under the fence, in a little bed, was a ravel of poor grassy leaves, such as come from very immature bulbs, and three scyllas in bloom. Mrs. Morel pointed to the deep blue flowers."Now, just see those!" she exclaimed. "I was looking at the currant bushes, when, thinks I to myself, `There's something very blue; is it a bit of sugar-bag?' and there, behold you! Sugar-bag! Three glories of the snow, and such beauties! But where on earth did they come from?" (152)The white flowers are often related to Mrs. More to express her spiritual features. Let us examine the passage with which the first chapter of Sons and Lovers ends-where Mrs. Morel, pregnant with Paul, wanders deliriously in the garden, shut out of the house by Morel in his drunkenness. In the garden, she stands cold andisolated from the world, with great anguish, feeling the mystery of the nature and sensing the child within her womb:Mrs. Morel leaned on the garden gate, looking out, and she lost herself awhile. She did not know what she thought. Except for a slight feeling of sickness, and her consciousness in the child, herself melted out like scent into the shiny, pale air. After a time the child too, melted with her in the mixing-pot of moonlight, and she rested with the hills and lilies and houses, all swum together in a kind of swoon. (22)After getting back in the house, the moment she notices that her face is smeared with the yellow dust of the lilies, she gets relieved, thinking the overpowering scent of the lilies and strange cold light of the moon. It is such a mystical moment that she finds peace in the sensation of her unborn child. This scene is the first indication of a special bond between the mother and the son.Although it is very ordinary, sunflower in the novel is a symbol, too. It symbolizes the shelter that Paul seeks for. Wherever Paul goes, whatever he meets, he always seeks consolation from his mother, and his mother thinks so. We can see it from the following scenes:There was a lovely yellow ravel of sunflowers in the garden. She looked out of the window. "There are my sunflowers!" she said. (352)She sat propped in her chair, smiling, and so pretty. The gold wedding，ring shone on her white hand; Her hair was carefully brushed. And she watched the tangled sunflowers dying, the chrysanthemums coming out, and the dahlias. Paul and she were afraid of each other. He knew, and she knew, that she was dying. (357)When Mrs. Morel is alive, the sunflower is flourishing, and when she is dying, the sunflowers are dying.CHAPTER 2 :The Flowers Related to Miriam Miriam loves flowers, but her love is unnatural. She "caress it with her mouth and cheeks and brow" (201). To her, "flowers appeared with such strength she felt she must make them part of herself" (160). The description of Miriam's love to the flowers indicates two aspects: 1. It is not appreciation of nature, but a sense ofpossession. 2. A sense of religion. For her, "she was cut off from ordinary life by her religious intensity which made the world for her either a nunnery garden or a paradise, where sin or else are ugly, cruel thing" (138). As a result, the love between Paul and her is doomed to be a failure. We can see this view from the following.Paul passed along a fine row of sweet-peas, gathering a blossom here and there, all cream and pale blue. Miriam followed, breathing the fragrance. To her, flowers appealed with such strength she felt she must make them part of herself. When she bent and breathed a flower, it was, as if she and the flowers were loving each other. Paul hated her for it. There seemed a sort of exposure about the action, something too intimate. (160-1)Miriam loves the flowers in a very intimate way; she always embraces and breathes the flowers, as if they loved each other. It seems that she wants to possess them. Just as Paul said that she wants to “suck them”, it also shows Miriam's unusual love to things including Paul. The narration of Miriam always connects with white roses and Christian figures to show her pure spirit and religious emotions. However, all these behaviors make Paul feel annoyed, believing that she wanted the soul out of his body, and not him. “She wanted to draw all of him into her.” (179)Lawrence uses flowers to objectify the considerably milder sexual attraction of Miriam. In chapter VII:The place was decorated for Easter. In the front hundreds of white narcissi seemed to be growing. The air was dim and thrilled with a subtle scent of lilies and narcissi. In that atmosphere Miriam's soul came into a glow…Miriam turned to him. Her soul expanded into prayer beside him. He felt the strange fascination of shadowy religious places. All his latent mysticism quivered into life. She was drawn to him. He was a prayer along with her. (155)Lilies and narcissi in the scene indicate both Miriam’s virgin and her pure soul. And sex-consciousness always fills her with shame. But Paul is so attractive to her, so she would rather sacrifice herself to get the soul of him.In the book, I believe Miriam may be the most miserable figure. While she has no idea what the religion has influenced her, she fails to get Paul, no matter how hard shetries.Chapter three: The Flowers Related to ClaraClara is a woman different from Mrs. Morel and Miriam. If we say the latter are spiritual, the former is passionate.In the novel, being the symbol of passion, she is always connected with crimson. This is the first time that Paul meets Clara in formal occasion. The crimson nasturtiums that come out from the cool green shadow of their leaves predict the coming of Clara. What is more, it also gives hints that Paul will seek a sort of fire in passion. Here is the scene in which Paul picks flowers with Miriam and Clara:She was kneeling, bending forward still to smell the flowers. Her neck gave him a sharp pang, such a beautiful thing, yet not proud of itself just now. Her breasts swung slightly in her blouse. The arching curve of her back was beautiful and strong; she wore no stays. Suddenly, without knowing, he was scattering a handful of cowslips over her hair and neck, saying: "Ashes to ashes, and dust to dust, If the Lord won't have you the devil must." The chill flowers fell on her neck. She looked up at him, with almost pitiful, scared grey eyes, wondering what he was doing. Flowers fell on her face, and she shut her eyes. (220)The flowers in the novel stand for the Clara’s charm without doubt. And Paul is drawn into it completely.When Paul and Clara went out, "He bought her a bunch of scarlet, brick-red carnations. She put them in her coat, flushing. (284)When she arose, he, looking on the ground all the time, saw suddenly sprinkled on the black wet beech-roots many scarlet carnation petals, like splashed drops of blood; and red, small splashes fell from her bosom, streaming down her dress to her feet. (289)Paul and Clara are enjoying the joys. Clara gets aware that she is a woman again, feeling proud and content, and she begins to ask for more. She not only demands the combination of the fleshy body, but also eager to the communication of spirit. When Paul gives her a bunch of crimson carnation, thinking the color is fit her most, and tallies with her fervent personality, Clara says: "I'd rather have had something softer"(284). It indicates that she longs for spiritual communication besides passion. Although Paul hopes the harmony of reason and emotion, he ignores Clara's demand, thinking she is too shallow to hold him, and to understand him like Miriam.In all, Clara's indiscretion makes their first intimacy easy for Paul, despite the hazards. However, they only are able to have sexual connection rather than spiritual words. An old lady in the novel once presents Clara with "three tiny dahlias in full blow, neat as bees, and speckled scarlet and white" (291). And it is clear that their getting together is made "because we were jolly."ConclusionAs a writer, Lawrence has a great influence on Modern English literature, for he saw the empty soul of the flourishing society. The sons and loves is one of the great novels, and it is rich of all kinds of flowers between the lines, which, to some extent, is important for readers to understand the characters and the themes. After all, the symbolic interpretation of the main objects described many times in the novel has great benefits, and we should learn the flowers seriously in the future research of the sons and lovers.Works citedNeil Champion. D. H. Lawrence: Life & Works. Hove: Wayland Publications, 1989. Nigel Messenger, How to Study a D. H. Lawrence Novel.New York: Macmillan Publications, 1989.Martin Krampen and Klaus Oehler. Classics of Semiotics. New York: Plenum Publications, 1987.Terry Eagleton. Literary Theory: An introduction. Oxford: Basil Blackwe11, 1983. Gamini Salgado. D. H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1969. Dennis Jackson and Fleda Brown Jacson. “Critical Essays on D. wrence”G.K.H: Massachusetts, 1988.D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers(Beijing: China International Business and Economics Press, 2000)Robert Scholes. Semiotics and Interpretation. Haven: Yale University Press, 1982 Chen Zhi'an and Liu Jiarong. New Horizons in Language and Semiotics in China (Sichuan: Chengdu, 1999).Denny Jackson and Fleda Brown Jacson. Critical Essays on D. H. Lawrence (G.K.H: Massachusetts, 1988).。
儿子与情人
小说背景
小说背景是劳伦斯的出生地——诺丁汉郡矿区。父亲莫瑞尔 是矿工，由于长年沉重的劳动和煤井事故使他变得脾气暴躁， 母亲出身于中产家庭，有一定教养。结婚后，夫妇不和，母 亲开始厌弃丈夫，把全部感情和希望倾注在孩子身上，由此 产生畸形的母爱。长子威廉为伦敦律师当文书，但为了挣钱 劳累致死。母亲从此对小儿子保罗寄予厚望。小说前半部着 重写了保罗和其母亲之间奥狄甫斯式的感情。后半部则着重 写了保罗和两位情人克拉拉和米里艾姆之间两种不同的爱。 前者情欲爱，后者是柏拉图式的精神之恋。保罗在母亲阴影 之下，无法选择自己的生活道路。直到母亲病故后，他才摆 脱了束缚，离别故土和情人，真正成人。
Some of his works
Lawrence published a number of novels, essays, and poems including The White Peacock (1911) 《白孔雀》长篇小说 , The Prussian Officer (1914) 《普鲁士军官》短篇小说集 Sons and Lovers (1913) 《儿子与情人》长篇小说 The Lost Girl (1920) 《误入歧途的女人》 长篇小说 Women in Love (1921) 《恋爱中的女人》长篇小说 Aaron's Rod (1922)《亚伦的手杖》长篇小说 Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923) 《鸟、兽、花》诗集 Studies in Classic American Literature (1923) 《美国经典文学研究》论文集 The Plumed Serpent (1926),《羽蛇》长篇小说 and Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928). 《查泰莱夫人的情人》长篇小说 The Rainbow was published in November 1915 but was suppressed. He won the James Tait Black Memorial prize (詹姆斯布莱克纪念奖 )for The Lost Girl.
sons and lovers
内容简介 · · · · · ·《儿子与情人(Sons and Lovers)》是劳伦斯以他的童年和青少年时代生活为蓝本而写成的一部成名作。
小说主人公保罗的父母莫瑞尔夫妇在一次舞会上一见钟情，缔结婚姻。
但莫瑞尔是矿工，而莫瑞尔太太出身中产阶级。
两人的生活理念截然不同，妻子面对丈夫的浑浑噩噩，深感希望破灭。
对丈夫的失望、不满和怨恨使莫瑞尔太太把自己的感情和希望都倾注到儿子身上。
她先是寄希望于长子威廉，然而长子早逝。
她又寄希望于次子保罗，希望他能够出人头地，实现她的理想。
她爱儿子，鼓励他成名成家，跻身于上流社会；她又从精神上控制儿子，使他不能钟情于别的女人。
这使得保罗在以后的感情问题上迷茫、困惑、无所适从。
和女友米莉安的交往使年轻的保罗经历了精神痛苦的过程。
然而和他的母亲一样，米莉安也试图从精神上占有保罗，使保罗感到窒息。
后来他们分手了。
保罗身边还有一个与丈夫分居的名叫克拉拉的女人。
保罗从她那里得到了肉体上的满足。
不过最终克拉拉结束了和保罗的感情生活，回到丈夫身边。
最后莫瑞尔太太病逝，保罗和米莉安也未能重归于好。
他依旧孑然一人，四处漂流，继续着他精神上的挣扎。
The Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and tr anslations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles.This semi-autobiographical novel explores the emotional conflicts through the protagonist, Pa ul Morel, and the suffocating relationships with a demanding mother and two very different lovers. It is a Freudian exploration of love and possessiveness.Sons and Lovers was the first modern portrayal of a phenomenon that later, thanks to Freu d, became easily recognizable as the Oedipus complex. Never was a son more indentured to his mother's love and full of hatred for his father than Paul Morel, D.H. Lawrence's young protagoni st. Never, that is, except perhaps Lawrence himself. In his 1913 novel he grappled with the disc ordant loves that haunted him all his life--for his spiritual childhood sweetheart, here called Miria m, and for his mother, whom he transformed into Mrs. Morel. It is, by Lawrence's own account, a book aimed at depicting this woman's grasp: "as her sons grow up she selects them as lovers --first the eldest, then the second. These sons are urged into life by their reciprocal love of their mother--urged on and on. But when they come to manhood, they can't love, because their moth er is the strongest power in their lives."Of course, Mrs. Morel takes neither of her two elder sons (the first of whom dies early, wh ich further intensifies her grip on Paul) as a literal lover, but nonetheless her psychological snare is immense. She loathes Paul's Miriam from the start, understanding that the girl's deep love of her son will oust her: "She's not like an ordinary woman, who can leave me my share in him. She wants to absorb him." Meanwhile, Paul plays his part with equal fervor, incapable of committ ing himself in either direction: "Why did his mother sit at home and suffer?... And why did he ha te Miriam, and feel so cruel towards her, at the thought of his mother. If Miriam caused his mot her suffering, then he hated her--and he easily hated her." Soon thereafter he even confesses to his mother: "I really don't love her. I talk to her, but I want to come home to you."The result of all this is that Paul throws Miriam over for a married suffragette, Clara Dawes, who fulfills the sexual component of his ascent to manhood but leaves him, as ever, without a complete relationship to challenge his love for his mother. As Paul voyages from the working-clas s mining world to the spheres of commerce and art (he has fair success as a painter), he accep ts that his own achievements must be equally his mother's. "There was so much to come out ofhim. Life for her was rich with promise. She was to see herself fulfilled... All his work was hers. "The cycles of Paul's relationships with these three women are terrifying at times, and Lawr ence does nothing to dim their intensity. Nor does he shirk in his vivid, sensuous descriptions of the landscape that offers up its blossoms and beasts and "shimmeriness" to Paul's sensitive spir it. Sons and Lovers lays fully bare the souls of men and earth. Few books tell such whole, com plicated truths about the permutations of love as resolutely without resolution. It's nothing short of searing to be brushed by humanity in this manner.--Melanie ReFrom Kirkus ReviewsWhen Sons and Lovers was first seen by its reading public in 1913, its publishers had in f act, out of caution and timidity, shortened Lawrence's originally submitted version by about ten p ercent--cuts that are restored in this new "uncensored and uncut" edition. Complexity of character ization, intensity of characters' confrontations, and sexual frankness are now, say the publishers, as the author intended them. Example: "He could smell her faint perfume" returns to its original, "He could smell her faint natural perfume, and it drove him wild with hunger."The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of LiteratureSemiautobiographical novel by D.H. Lawrence, published in 1913. His first mature novel, it i s a psychological study of the familial and love relationships of a working-class English family. T he novel revolves around Paul Morel, a sensitive young artist whose love for his mother, Gertrud e, overshadows his romances with two women: Miriam Leivers, his repressed, religious girlfriend, and Clara Dawes, an experienced, independent married woman. Unable to watch his mother die slowly of cancer, Paul kills her with morphine. Despite losing her and rejecting both Miriam and Clara, Paul harbors hope for the future.From AudioFileLawrence's first major novel is unstintingly, passionately autobiographical. Set in a Nottingha mshire mining town, it concerns the high-minded wife of a brutal miner who puts all hopes into h er artistic son, Paul. Copley brings the workingclass milieu to life. His north country accent enhan ces the author's regional "sound," which may not be apparent on the page to American readers, but which is a prominent feature of the book's aesthetic. By shaving off a bit too much of the co lor, the abridgment reinforces the novel's starkness. Therefore, one should hear this recording bef ore, not instead of, reading the full work. Y.R.一个时代和一个家庭的悲剧也来说说劳伦斯的《儿子与情人》吧。
sons and lovers
《儿子与情人》这部书很大程度上取材于劳伦斯的个人生活经验。后 来的评论家们认为：这是一部具有自传性质的作品。
书中人物原型：
Pual Morel Mrs Morel Miriam Leivers Clara Dawes Lawrance himself Lawrance’s mother ,Lydia Lawrance’s first love ,Jessie Chambers Lawrance’s lover, Alice Dax
Plot Summary of Sons and Lovers
After Paul and Miriam have sex, he decides that they are not good for each other, and breaks off their relationship, to Miriam's anger and bitterness. Paul heads into an intensely sexual relationship with Clara. Miriam is jealous that the Morels have accepted Clara as Paul's lover when they have not liked her at all. Paul and Clara share a passionate, sexual relationship. As much as Paul thinks that he is happy, his mother believes otherwise; she knows in her heart that Clara will tire her son out. Baxter Dawes and Paul have a fight; the fight leaves Paul in great pain and a great dislike for Clara's husband. Although both men severely hate each other, they feel connected to each other. Mrs. Morel falls gravely ill because of a tumor. The doctor who tends to her tells Paul that Dawes is in the hospital for his fever. Paul calls on Dawes in the hospital and the two men somewhat reconcile. When Paul tells Clara that Dawes is ill, Clara unexpectedly declares that her husband had treated her with more respect and had loved her more than Paul ever did. Clara returns to Dawes. Meanwhile, Mrs. Morel grows weaker. Knowing that she is prolonging her death to live for Paul, Paul and Annie fear that she will live longer than she can emotionally survive. Paul and Annie cannot stand to see their beloved mother live in such pain that they give her an extra dosage of morphine. Mrs. Morel dies. Paul goes to see Miriam. They ponder getting married, but Paul confesses that he has no desire nor any intention of marrying her. Miriam decides to wait as long as it takes for him to come to her. Paul returns home, thinking about the bond he shares with his mother. Their love is still alive in him, even though she has died.
儿子与情人-英文介绍简介
About the book
There are six main characters .
Mr. Morel --- father Mrs. Morel --- mother William --- brother Paul --- hero Miriam --- girlfriend Clara --- girlfriend
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Unfortunately, William dies, Mrs. Morel is depressed. She gives all love to her little son --- Paul. She loves Paul very much and encourages him to become a successful business man. She controls him everything, makes Paul only love her.
As his growing up, the emotion between Paul and his mother becomes deep day after day, so that Paul loves Miriam, but he can’t marry her, then he only can keep ambiguous relationship with Clara who has a husband. Finally, Paul leaves the city after his mother dies.
My Views
• I think Paul is a poor man. His mother’s love tortures Paul all the time. When Mrs. Morel dies, she takes away his spirit prop.
英语专业毕业论文—《儿子与情人》的主题分析
毕业论文题目 On the Theme of Sons and Lovers 院系外国语学院专业英语年级 2008级学生姓名学号指导教师On the Theme of Sons and Lovers论《儿子与情人》的主题学生指导教师摘要：《儿子与情人》是劳伦斯早期作品中最著名的一部，也是他的成名作。
尽管此书曾遭受过被禁的厄运，但在其解禁至今的几十年内引起了读者的关注，并获得了文学上的肯定。
书中，劳伦斯逼真地再现了20世纪初英国矿工家庭的生活，并揭示了在工业文明的影响下，人们为争取更高的经济和社会地位所付出的惨痛代价。
小说以主人公保罗的家庭本身及自己的情感生活为中心，着重描写了人物内心强烈深沉的情感，以及人与人之间在那个社会环境下不能自已的爱恨情仇。
本论文试图从莫瑞儿一家的不幸生活来对《儿子与情人》的主题进行较为详细深刻的分析，比如：夫妻失和导致莫瑞尔太太的情感转移；一直引以为傲的大儿子的死带给母亲的巨大打击；保罗接替威廉成为莫瑞尔太太生命的全部；由于母亲从小对儿子们倾注所有，并在其思想上有一定的控制，因此导致儿子们无法拥有一段正常的，成功的恋爱生活等等。
而这一系列情感悲剧的真实根源来自于工业文明下诸多的社会问题以及不和谐的人际关系，这也同样是本文的最终主题。
关键词：劳伦斯；《儿子与情人》；畸形母爱；恋母情结；工业文明ABSTRACTSons and Lovers is the one of the most significant works of David Herbert Lawrence as well as his first big success. Although this book once suffered being prohibited, it drew readers' attentions and gained recognitions in literature rapid ly in a few decades after being rescind the prohibition. In this book, Lawrence realistically reproduces a British miner's family life in the twentieth century with realistic technique, and exposes that in order to strive for higher economic and social sta tus, people needs to pay a heavy price under the influence of industrial civilization. The novel mainly depicts the deep and intense emotion in people's inner world, and focuses on the love and hatred between people which they cannot control under that social circumstance, with the protagonist's family itself and his love life as its center. Therefore, this thesis attempts to analyze the theme of Sons and Lovers in detail from the Morels' misfortunes, such as the failed marriage results in Mrs Morel's shift in sentiment; the death of William who is always the hope of his mother brings about a huge blow to Mrs. Morel; Paul becomes the whole of his mother's life instead of William; Mrs.Morel's devotions to her sons and controls of their minds result that they fail to possess normal and successful love lives and so on. While, the roots of the series of tragedies are the social problems and disharmonious relations brought about by the industrial civilization , which is also the theme of Sons and Lovers.Key W ords: wrence; Sons and Lovers; deformed Love; Oedipus complex; industrial civilizationContentsIntroduction (1)Part I A Failure in Marriage (4)1.1 Mrs. Morel's Dream of Marriage (4)1.2 A Marriage of Love and Hatred (4)1.3 Mrs Morel's Changed Attitude to Her Husband (5)Part II Mrs Morel, William and His Girl Friend (7)2.1 William's Social Success (7)2.2 William and His Girl Friend (7)2.3 Mrs. Morel's View of William's Death (8)Part III Mrs. Morel, Paul and Miriam (10)3.1 Mrs. Morel's Expectation of Paul (10)3.2 Miriam's Influence on Paul (11)3.3 Mrs. Morel's Dislike of Miriam (12)Conclusion (14)Bibliography (16)Acknowledgments (17)四川大学锦江学院本科毕业论文论《儿子与情人》的主题IntroductionDavid Herbert Lawrence is one of the most unique and controversial English writer s in the twentieth century, whose masterpieces are Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, and Lady Chatterley's Lovers. He was born in a miner family without notable reputation and high diploma. What makes him so distinctive is his talent. His creations are deeply influenced by family background and Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis, which result in the fact that his works are mostly exploring family, marriage and sex. What is more, Lawrence’s bold descriptions of sex in his books once triggered off a tremendous splash and were forbidden for a long time. Therefore, he complained that nobody could understand his writings in three hundred years (wrence). For Lawrence, he insisted that the fade of sex led to spiritual barrenness and un-civilization of English, and Britain would not come back to life until letting sex return to its natural condition (毕冰宾). After the prohibition against his works was rescinded, he soon became popular and welcomed by general public.Sons and Lovers is one of Lawrence's most important novels, which is regarded as an autobiographical novel and breaks the writing conventions of the former writers. He depicts the protagonists' complicated inner world from his special view, lyrical style, vivid details, and bold idea s. It is not only a novel presenting the author's real life, revealing the ugliest aspect s of society in nineteenth and twentieth centuries, of all round dirty mines and miners' miserable conditions, but also exposing various contradictions and problems arising with the development of capitalistic industrial civilization, of distorted human relationships and negative physical and mental influence on human beings (张文静). Therefore, this novel is a masterwork in English literary history and world literature that is worth exploring.Some scholars focus on Mrs. Morel's deformed love for Paul. Mrs. Morel is a well-educated woman from a middle class family, so her marriage with Mr. Morel – a miner with coarse speech and bad temper –dooms to be a failure. After her disappointment of her husband and desperation of her marriage, Mrs. Morel devotes1all her love to her children. Therefore, Paul becomes her only hope and emotional trust after William's death. She not only continuously encourages and supervises Paul to edge into the middle classes and polite society, but also controls him in spirit and interferes with his courtship. Because in her eyes that Paul is her lover, and is part and parcel of her life, which satisfies her emotional need of not just being a mother, but also a wife and a woman. However, both of them are suffering from this kind of possessive love (甄桂英；尹树文；杨琳).Some scholars focus on Paul's Oedipus complex. As a psychoanalytic theory of Sigmund Freud, Oedipal Complex means a boy's desire to possess his mother sexually and oppose to his father in an unconscious way. Oedipus Complex derives from a Greek mythology in the fifth century B. C.. It tells that the king of Thebes, Oedipus, unwittingly kills his father and marries his mother, then brings disaster on his city and family (Oedipus). While, in Sons and Lovers, it mainly depicts the lingering feeling of love between the mother and the son. Paul’s emotional attachment to his mother is generally regarded as Oedipus complex. Mrs. Morel's control of Paul's soul and feelings, and her abnormal mother love accepted by Paul result in that he is largely dependent on his mother. On one hand, he is a boy who is sensitive to mother's troubles and likes staying even sleeping with her. He is also full of responsibility to her. Because of this, he often curses his father to die. On the other hand, he indulges in the Oedipus complex too deep to get rid of his mother's fatal influences when he dates with his girl friend. And he cannot really fall in love with anyone. Therefore, he gradually realizes that he is unable to get married only if his mother is alive (刘国英；李晋瑜；程明静, 卓杨；王毅).Some scholars focus on the root of family tragedy of the industrial civilization. The early twentieth century of Britain was a period of industrial revolutio n. At that time, the majority of people were happy for the huge profits and economy growth. D.H. Lawrence, however, realized the destructiveness. He believed that industrial civilization improved the human beings' material civilization, but at the same time seriously destroyed the original harmonious relation between people，suppressed the human nature, ruined the person's physical and mental health. In Sons and Lovers, allkinds of distorted human relationships are resulted from those unharmonious elements of modern civilization. And a series of tragedies are produced like the "domino effect". The industrial civilization puts Mr. Morel, a miner, in a tough living conditions. Under the great pressure of life, his marriage is at risk. Facing the massive differences between the before-marriage and the after-marriage, as well as the ideal and the reality, Mrs. Morel estranges her husband but gets close to her sons, which leads to excessive intimate mother-child relationships. Then the intricate family ties deprive the sons of abilities to fall in love with other girls normally. Therefore, the tragedy of last generation extends to the next generation. That's why we can say industrial civilization is the evil root (刘国英；张文静；武瑞).In my opinion, the theme of Sons and Lovers is involved in the abnormal interrelationships and their main causes.Part I A Failure in Marriage1.1 Mrs. Morel's Dream of MarriageMrs. Morel is a well-educated lady with pious faith. In a Christmas ball, she falls in love with the handsome and humorous Walter Morel, and then they get married. Because of different family and educational backgrounds, they are also different in outlook on life (覃艳容)."Mrs. Morel came of a good old burgher family, famous independentswho had fought with Colonel Hutchinson, and who remained scoutCongregationalist...Gertrude resembled her mother in a small build. Buther temper, proud and unyielding, she had from the Coppards "(Lawrence6).What's more, Mrs. Morel's ideal type husband should like her father who is a cultured gentleman with masculinity and belief. "Her father was to her the type of all men "(Lawrence 8). Therefore, she is fascinated when she meets the "well set-up, erect, and very smart"(Lawrence 7). Walter Morel. And she expects to marry a miner who is full of charm and vigor, with independent economy, own house and bank savings. But at the seventh month after marriage, she finds that her husband is a poor and indebted man. This accidental discovery shatters her dream (覃艳容).1.2 A Marriage of Love and HatredIt seems that the marriage between Mr. Morel and Mrs Morel is a tragedy, because both of them are suffering from it. On one hand, Mrs. Morel is disappointed with her husband who reconciles to ordinary life, wallows in enjoying life and makes no efforts to improve the living conditions and gain respects. She also hates him for drinking heavily, and being rude to her as well as the children."The pity was, she was too much his opposite. She could not be contentwith the little he might be; she would have him the much that he ought tobe. So, in seeking to make him nobler than he could be, she destroyedhim"(Lawrence 12).On the other hand, Mr. Morel can't withstand the request, arrogance and aggressiveness of his wife. He is just an ordinary miner who wants to live freely without too much luxury."She fought to make him undertake his responsibilities, to make himfulfill his obligations. But he was too different from her. His nature waspurely sensuous, and she strove to make him moral, religious. She tried toforce him to face things. He could not endure it-it drove him out of hismind"(Lawrence 11).However, we can still find couple's warmth and affection between them. For example, she defends for him before neighbors; she feels silly after quarreling with him for cutting William's hair; she experiences warmth and peace on the bed hearing the sound he made in the garden; she wants a kiss from him when she is giving birth; she still speaks highly of his nice figure even he is already a middle-aged man; she is so grieved for his illness."...she was almost a fanatic with him, because she loved him, or had loved him"(Lawrence 12). As for Mr. Morel, he is attracted by his wife all the time. Most times, he is afraid of her, and follows her directions. He feels sorry for scolding and beating her, sympathizes with her laborious business."During his illness his wife had spoilt him a little. Now he wanted her tocontinue. He often put his band to his head, pulled down the comers ofhis mouth, and shamed pains he did not feel"(Lawrence 32).For theses reasons, there are not only fights and contradictions, but also pleasant memories in this relationship. And just because love and hatred both exist in the marriage, their emotions are complex and agonizing.1.3 Mrs Morel's Changed Attitude to Her HusbandAfter marriage, the cruel reality shatters Mrs. Morel's dream as a young girl. She maintains the essential family living and raises her children up in a dreadful condition. At the same time, Mr. Morel is not a gentle and thoughtful man any more.With heavy manual work and burden of family life, he begins to drink heavily, be rude and unreasonable, and vents his anger on his wife and children. This triggers of a discordant and hostile relationship. Mrs. Morel gradually changes her attitudes to her husband along with the birth of children and the broken love.The first time she starts to change her attitude is that she sees through her husband's lies and knows what they live in now is a rented house. "She said very little to her husband, but her manner had changed towards him. Something in her proud, honorable soul had crystallized out hard as rock" (Lawrence 10). She is extremely lonely and sad for the disillusioned dream. So she despises her husband, and turns from him to the child. She cares very little that he does. Only, she scathes him with her satire on his return . And then they become emotionally estranged from each other.With the birth of their second child, Mrs. Morel doesn't crate trouble for herself by not fighting with him like before and not thinking of his hateful behaviors. Therefore, "there was a state of peace in the house for some time. Mrs. Morel was more tolerate of him, … Neither knew that she was more tolerate because she loved him less"(Lawrence 32). At this moment, Mrs. Morel's calm attitude is not yielding to her husband or marriage, but giving up, because love is ebbing in an unspectacular way.The last change is the end of their love and marriage. Mrs. Morel no longer spends time in arguing uselessly with him. She shows him completely indifference and unconcern which drives out him from her world, then devotes to two sons with her life. As one proverb says that the opposite of love is not hatred, but unconcern. This time, Mr. Morel has a feeling of being abandoned, and realizes that "it was really over between them"(Lawrence 33).Part II Mrs Morel, William and His Girl Friend2.1 William's Social SuccessWilliam is the eldest son in the Morel family who is brilliant and excellent. He is always the proud of his parents from childhood, and gains social success by tirelessly pursuing his ideal life. At the age of thirteen, he begins his first job. Then he becomes one of the best stenographers and bookkeepers. In his nineteen, he gets a job in Nottingham for thirty shillings a week which is admired by neighbors,but he still studies till very late. Finally he finds a job in London with one hundred and twenty pounds per year which is a huge amount of income."In London he found that he could associate with men far above hisBestwood friends in station...so he began to fancy himself as a great gun.He was, indeed, rather supervised at the ease with which he became agentleman"(Lawrence 63).Although his living environment is rather poor, and family is unhappy, he enters into the gentry class all the same by his own. He can make friends everywhere for his extroverted character, and challenge authority for his sense of justice. He can do all the things that men do-the decent things (Lawrence 37). What's more, he can give dual attention on enjoyment and learning. All of these contribute to his social success.2.2 William and His Girl FriendWilliam is deeply loved by Mrs. Morel for his excellence, and wants to get rid of the trammel of motherly love. So the courtship becomes the only way to save him. He begins to pursue a Gypsy girl, Lily, who is beautiful in appearance but simple in mind, and is even engaged with her despite his mother's opposition. William should be happy at this moment, but he feels a strong sense of complications and contradictions in the love between his girl friend and him.On one hand, William is always accompanied by his mother and influenced by her complicated character, arrogance and stubbornness. In addition to that he reads alot of books, and he looks down upon the foolishness and decadence of the upper class. Lily understands nothing except for amorism and following fashion. "But often he got irritable. She had brought, for an eight-days' stay, five dresses and six blouses".(Lawrence 91) So William has a deep aversion to his fiancée with the expectation of a kindred spirit, not a noisy lover who just regards him as a machine to pay her bills. Besides, he never makes disguise of his disdain and scorn to Lily in front of his mother, and even digs at her to his mother's face. "Read a book! Why, she's never read a book in her life" (Lawrence 92). On the other hand, he inherits his father's emotional side which let him yearn for the ardent and passionate love life. He can't resist Lily's fantastic appearance and treats her tenderly (刘芳).Just because William fails to reach the balance between reason and emotion, the love between his girl friend and him is also contradictory and torturous. We can get this from the description of Lawrence."William was silent, and later he repented, kissed and comforted the girl.Y et it was true, what he had said. He hated her...All summer longWilliam's letters had a feverish tone; he seemed unnatural and intense.Sometimes he was exaggeratedly jolly, while usually he was flat andbitter in his letter"(Lawrence 94).2.3 Mrs. Morel's View of William's DeathMrs. Morel gives lives to her sons who also naturally become the spokesmen of her life. So she takes for granted that sons' successes are her triumph. It likes a guaranty that sons' lives are mortgaged to their mother for being taught and guided. Then William is accepted by London's upper class soon which brings comfort and honor to her mother who is struggling in adversity. However, fate always likes to push people into the abyss when he is full of hope. William's short life is gone with wind without blossoming. After his death, Mrs. Morel is in a trance. And her hopes come to naught."In the house she was the same-small, white, and mute. She noticednothing, she said nothing...then she relapsed into the same mute lookinginto space...Mrs. Morel could not be persuaded, after this, to talk and takeher old bright interest in life. She remained shut off"(Lawrence 97-99).Although she is extremely upset, she never realizes the real cause of her son's death. She just thinks that he dies from overwork. Because, she knows that he is a hard-working boy, "and she knew he sat up afterwards in his cold bedroom grinding away at Latin, because he intended to get on his office, and in the law as much as he could".(Lawrence 64) Even the whispered words he says when he is dying is about his work.In fact, it's Mrs. Morel's excessive demand of emotion and dominance that causes this tragedy. And she never knows that her aggressive interference and sentimental infiltration give rise to the departure. On the one hand, he has to bear his profligate fiancée in material, and doubts her loyalty of love in spirit; on the other hand, he must endure his mother's control and occupation of his mind. This kind of pressure from body and mental leads to his death (章学文).Part III Mrs. Morel, Paul and Miriam3.1 Mrs. Morel's Expectation of Paul"Paul was rather a delicate boy, subject to bronchitis. The others were all quiet strong, so this was another reason for his mother's difference in feeling for him"(Lawrence 46). Especially, after the death of William, Paul becomes the only hope of Mrs. Morel who gives him all her love. "In him was established her life now. After all, the life beyond offered very little to Mrs. Morel. She saw that our chance for doing is here, and doing counted with her"(Lawrence 158). In addition to that she has a certain degree of cultural cultivation, so she eagerly hopes that her son can gain higher economic and social status. She urges him to work hard, be free of mining areas, and encourages him to prefer niceness, such as flowers, sunset or some beautiful gadget (刘积源). Besides, Paul also turns into her target of venting the inner world's anguish. Every night, she waits for his coming, unburdens herself and tells him what occurs in the whole day. She has mind control on him to stop him from loving another people, which can make up for her regret of having a disappointing husband and unhappy marriage that only exist in name. Therefore, Paul is not just his mother's son but also a lover to satisfy her both in material and spirit. Mrs. Morel expects Paul to realize all her unfilled dreams.With regarded to Mrs. Morel's expectations, Paul gives her enthusiastic response. He is largely dependent on her and extremely sympathizes with her sufferings from childhood. As long as he stays with her, he is full of love and responsibility. "...he also could not bear to go home to his mother empty. That, he felt, would disappoint her, and he would have died rather" (Lawrence 48). For these reasons, he hates his father who is an incapable husband, irritable drunkard, and destroys the family's happiness. Sometimes, he even curses his father to die. His ambition is that living with he mother in a small house where is not far away from home after her father passing away. Mrs. Morel occupies the most important place in Paul's heart and is the one he really loves.3.2 Miriam's Influence on PaulMiriam is Paul's first love who is a beautiful girl with curly black hair. She is shy and sensitive with strong religious faith. Even the slightest vulgar behaviour is an agony for her. Although she defies men, Paul commands her respect with a brand new image and a little learning. She is fascinated by him. Hence, she wants to build up a genuine and platonic relationship with Paul.There are pure appearance and source of ideas what an artist needs upon Miriam. Paul is always eager to show her his every piece of work after getting it done on account of that she will speak highly of his works all the time, even sometimes they are unintentional. Meanwhile, he can acquire a lager imaginary space when he is discussing the works with her. And with Miriam's encouragement, Paul's desire to paint is much more intense (张慧军). Plus, he also can talk about celebrities, poems and culture, exchange ideas with her, which enhances his insight and lets him have a more profound understanding of other things. In this regard, Miriam is different from Mrs. Morel who does not care about Paul's art but himself and his achievement. Miriam pays attention to the art itself, and his personality.In the process of dating with Miriam, Paul absorbs pure sense and soul exchange from her which are needed by personal growth. We can say that her love helps him heading for maturity in spirit (张慧军). Miriam is Paul's soul mate who gives him the spiritual comforts. But about sex, her religious faith leads her to consider it dirty and stick to the concept of virginity."...because of the continual business of birth and of begetting which goeson upon every farm, Miriam was the more hypersensitive to the matter,and her blood was chastened almost to disgust of the faintest suggestionof such intercourse" (Lawrence 115).So, Paul follows her and restrains his desire by all means. He is always in a detached state to transform his fire of love into the subtle consciousness. He would rather suffer from it than hurt her feelings, because the sacred sentiment of his mother is offended by his father. He won't let it happen again. However, in the bottom ofPaul's heart, the true love is not only in mind, but also in body. Hence, he is tortured by their platonic love and decides to leave her.3.3 Mrs. Morel's Dislike of MiriamMrs. Morel rests her hopes and affections on her sons through her disillusion of her husband. After the death of her beloved William, she devotes all efforts in Pa ul, which develops into a deformed motherly love. She takes great care of him in life, and regards him as a love object in spirit. She attempts to possess all his emotions. And she is very pleased to go out with him after freshening up shyly, which is the happiest moment in her life. In her eyes, Paul is her lover to fill her emotional vacancy and fulfill her aspirations. As a result, she is always on the alert to prevent anybody and anything from tempting him to deviate from the goal of life which is set by her. But before long, Miriam enters into their world and falls in love with Paul. Mrs. Morel has a feeling of hurt about Paul and hatred about Miriam immediately when they are together. So "She could not bear it when he was with Miriam. William was dead. She would fight to keep Paul" (Lawrence 158).Miriam is a girl with religious and charming temperament. Her platonic love controls Paul's mind to a certain degree. He goes to her home frequently and goes back late at night. He likes to stay and chat with her which let them grow very close. Mrs. Morel is irritated by all of these. She complains to Paul that "...I am old. And therefore I may stand aside; I have nothing more to do with you. Y ou only want me to wait on you-the rest is for Miriam"(Lawrence 151). And she hates Miriam who wants to possess Paul as she does. She feels that her son's soul is taken away by this girl and "She's not like an ordinary woman, who can leave me my share in him. She wants to absorb him"(Lawrence 136). Hence, she often bad-mouths Miriam before Paul and pours out her anguish. Besides, she even tells him that she never has a real husband to profess her love bluntly. In order to defeat Miriam completely, she does not oppose strongly to the fact that Paul is dating with another girl who is a couple of years older than her, because this woman presents no threat to her.Paul becomes increasingly impatient and sullen, as he is caught in the middle between Miriam and Mrs. Morel. He is cruel to Miriam and quarrels with his mother. Both of them are hurt. However, Mrs. Morel blames these negative changes on Miriam. She hates Miriam because she believes that this vicious girl changes Paul into this and destroys their happiness.Miriam is a devote believer and has an unrealistic attitude about life, which is contradictory to Mrs. Morel again who is a practical woman. Just as on the matter of Paul's artistic development, Miriam focuses on his art itself, while Mrs. Morel pays attention to the achievement that the art brings. Gradually, Paul begins to depend solely on Miriam along with his enhanced artistic level and excludes her mother in this respect, which turns into Mrs. Morel's another reason to hate Miriam (张思武).Mrs. Morel is an arrogant woman for her family background. So she hopes that her son can marry a notable maiden who is well-matched with him to consolidate his social position in the middle class. Miriam has a humble origin which is disdained by Mrs. Morel. And at last, Paul indeed doesn't marry Miriam and breaks up with her for several reasons. But Mrs. Morel's strong dislike for Miriam and her pressure on Paul must be much harder to ignore as their separation factors.ConclusionBritain experienced an industrial revolution in the nineteenth century, and entered into the era of industrial civilization. In society at that time, people's natural living environment was damaged, while flesh and spirit were suppressed and damaged. So the relations between people, especially the gender relations lost balance. Sons and Lovers mainly depicts a series of tragedies caused by the disharmonious gender relations under the industrial civilization in nineteenth century (庞炜).Mr. Morel is a miner who is struggling for a minimal living. After a long time of hard work bay by day, he is reduced to a slavery of industrial society without dignity and happiness. He becomes rude, insolent and an alcoholic binge. However, he marries a lady who is well-bred from middle class. She is resentful about her husband's rudeness and the family condition. Then couple's conflicts and unhappy marriage distort the relations between family members.The imbalanced gender relations in the era of the industrial civilization were also represented by gender inequality. At that time, female is at the bottom of society. But they were called "angle in the house". Although they were in low position, they are priority in morality(陆伟芳). In the novel, Miriam is often humiliated by her brothers at home. So she thinks that all men are savages. She longs for a meaningful life, but there is no space to let satisfy her in reality. She only can hold unpractical imagines. Hence, she just wants to have a platonic love with Paul, and rigorously avoids everything about sex. Then conflicts come into being because Paul eventually can't bear Miriam's traditional concept of sex. He is a common people with sexuality awareness. And this is the major cause of their separation.The highly industrialized society urges more and more people to promote their economic and social status by all means. And Mrs. Morel is one of them. Her dissatisfactions about her husband's income and status make her put all hopes on her sons. William dies at a young age which is a fatal blow for her. So she devotes all her love to Paul. At last, she can't live without him for her excessive attachment. As for。
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《儿子与情人》所概况的主题思想的社会意义是 现实的, 深刻的, 它突破了传统的立意和表现手法, 特意创新, 以独特的构思, 以新颖的结构, 将夫妻之 间, 母子之间的情意展现在读者面前, 这种表现手 段, 被习惯性忽视了, 因为它不存在于人们有意识的 习惯思考中, 因此, 人们容易忽视, 不容易理解, 莫瑞 尔太太是小说主角之一, 她气质高雅, 是个雄心勃勃 的女性, 却又掉进了一个婚姻不美满的家庭, 他们夫 妻之间的相互折磨, 长期冲突, 随时搏斗, 那种“可怕 的, 只能以其中一个的毁灭而告终的搏斗”是本书主 要人物性格冲突之源, 由莫瑞尔夫妻之间的矛盾, 引 发了子女与父亲之间的冲突, 子女与母亲之间情感 的贴紧, 这是贯穿在《儿子与情人》这部小说中, 事件
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《儿子与情人》贴近真实生活, 生动地描绘了莫 瑞尔家庭早期生活和保罗在复杂的社会对抗中, 赢 得了自身的价值, 深刻地揭示了当时英国“整个文明 的病症”,《儿子与情人》给读者再现的社会病症是深 刻 的, 正如德雷伯 (D rap er) 总结说:“《儿子与情人》 最大的收获是对现实生活快速而真实地表现。”任何 人都可以更高地评价劳伦斯的作品, 但《儿子与情 人》给读者再现那么深刻, 那么生动。
Sons and Lovers 儿子与情人
Sons and Lovers is a autobiographical novel by the English writer David Herbert Lawrence, which is published by the Gerald Duckworth and Company Ltd in 1913.The story is set in a midland mining village of Best wood during the second half of the 19th country. It is notable for being the first English novel with a truly working class background.The marriage of Mr. Morel and Mrs. Morel is not a success because of the difference of background proves an insurmountable barrier to communication and mutual trust. Mrs. Morel transfers her affection to her eldest son, William. He moves to London and seems destined to achieve success, but dies tragically young from an illness brought on by stress and overwork, which drives Mrs. Morel crazy. After that, Mrs. Morel focuses all her love and moral energy on Paul, her second son. In his spare time, Paul is a promising designer and an artist. However, such professional and social emancipation is not matched by any corresponding psychological growth to maturity, for Paul feels bound by ties of love and loyalty to his mother in a way that inhibits full relationships with other women. The earlier part of the novel is that of Paul’s progressive succumbing to his mother’s power, the later part is that of Paul’s all but futile attempt to break free of the mother and find a fulfilling relationship with another woman-Miriam. Under the shadow of his mother, Paul couldn’t choose his own life. And only after Mr s. Morel died did he get rid of the constriant and leave his hometown and lover to be come a real grown-man.From the title, I think the author intends to explore two sets of relationships: one (sons) within the family and another (lovers) outside the family. It is a story of a family and not just Paul’s story.This is also a novel of growing. It is evident that the central character is Paul Morel. Following his growth and development from infancy to young manhood, we can feel that his emotional, intellectual, social and, above all, psychic development that the love portrays. Sons and Lovers is an unusual version of a common form of novel, namely, the education novel, or a “Bildungsroman”, where the focus is on the growth to maturity of a young person.In Sons and Lovers, through describing the life of people in lower and middle clas ses in British industrial society at 19th century and the complex, abnormal psycholog y between mother and son, and also between the two sexes, in a certain environmen t, Lawrence demonstrates that reason, which is the factor of inhibiting human’s natur e, should be abandoned to give full play to the nature. With reading the book, I can s trongly feel that in a society where the nature has been distorted and the harmoniou s relationship among human is always threatened, the fight between body and soul is supposed to be cruel and pitiless. Actually, in the end, no one would be the winner . What was worse, no one could be a real and complete person. How a terrible society it was!。
Sons and Lovers D.H.Lawrence
One day it was revealed that Mrs. Moral had cancer and suffered a lot.Paul cannot stand to see their beloved mother live in such a pain so he give her an overdose of morphine(吗啡).
lawrence's major works
The White Peacock 《白孔雀》
The Trespasser 《逾矩的罪人》
Sons and Lovers 《儿子与情人》
The Rainbow
《虹》
Women in Love 《恋爱中的女人》
Lady Chatterley's Lover 《查泰莱夫人的情人》
The well-educated daughter of a “good old burgher family” Gertrude Coppard met a coal miner Walter Morel at a ball and fell in love with him. But after they got married, Mr.Morel's temper got worse.He drunk a lot and always quarreled with his wife.
When Paul went to visit some friends of Mrs.Morel,Paul met Miriam and fell in love with her.They carried on an intimate but platonic relatioship for many years. Mrs.Morel disliked Miriam , as in her view Miriam took all of Paul's energy, desire, and feeling with nothing left of him for her. Paul was under such a deep influence of his mother that he could not make decision by himself or cope with the problems with his girlfriend. Paul broke up with Miriam in the end.
儿子与情人读后感英文500字
儿子与情人读后感英文500字英文回答："Sons and Lovers" by D.H. Lawrence is a complex and emotionally charged novel that explores the relationship between a mother and her sons. Lawrence's vivid prose and insightful characterization bring to life the struggles and passions of the Morel family in early 20th-century England.The novel revolves around Paul Morel, a young man torn between his love for his mother, Gertrude, and his desire for independence. Gertrude is a possessive and manipulative woman who smothers Paul with her affection, hindering his emotional and sexual development. As Paul grows older, he becomes increasingly frustrated by his mother's suffocating embrace and seeks refuge in relationships with other women.Lawrence does an exceptional job of portraying the complexities of Paul's character. Paul is sensitive, intelligent, and ambitious, but he is also weak-willed andindecisive. His inability to reconcile his love for his mother with his desire for freedom leads him into a cycle of self-destruction.In addition to its exploration of familial relationships, "Sons and Lovers" also delves into themes of social class and economic hardship. The Morel family is working-class, and they struggle to make ends meet. This economic pressure further exacerbates the tensions within the family, as Paul feels trapped by his circumstances and yearns for a better life.Lawrence's writing is rich in symbolism and imagery, which adds depth and resonance to the novel. The setting of the Midlands, with its industrial landscapes and bleak mining towns, reflects the emotional struggles of the characters. The recurring motif of birds and animals symbolizes Paul's longing for freedom and his entrapment within his family.Overall, "Sons and Lovers" is a powerful and moving novel that offers a profound exploration of humanrelationships, desire, and the struggle for independence. Lawrence's masterful storytelling and psychological insight make this a classic work of English literature that continues to resonate with readers today.中文回答：D.H.劳伦斯的《儿子与情人》是一部复杂而充满情感色彩的小说，探讨了母亲与儿子之间的关系。
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读小说，做翻译，学英语，思考这个文档是我的学习思路，今天就从劳伦斯的小说Sons and Lovers开始翻译。
首先书名部分，传统的翻译是：儿子与情人。
但是没有翻译出复数的意思。
所以暂时翻译成：儿子们和情人们。
CHAPTER ITHE EARL Y MARRIED LIFE OF THE MORELS第一章Morel夫妇早期的婚姻生活【the 用在姓的复数形式的前面，指“……家的人们”（葛传规）】“The Bottoms” succeeded to “Hell Row”.“Hell Row”之后是“The Bottoms”。
Hell Row was a block of thatched,bulging cottages that stood by the brookside on Greenhill Lane. Hell Row是一个茅草屋集中区，鼓鼓囊囊的茅草屋建在溪边，Greenhill小巷贯穿其中。
【bulging不好理解，可能是形容茅屋膨大，密度小，因为是草盖的，暂时还找不到适合的汉语表达】【bulging - curving outward 】There lived thecolliers who worked in the little gin-pits two fields away.煤矿工人们住在这里，离此地两块农田远的地方有一些小型矿井，配有三角起重机，工人们就在这些矿井里工作。
The brook ran underthe alder trees, scarcely soiled by these small mines, whose coal was drawn to the surface by donkeys that plodded wearily in a circle round a gin.溪水在桤木树丛下流淌，这些小矿井没有给溪水造成污染，驴子绕着矿井吃力地蹒跚转圈，把煤矿拖到地面。
(精品)劳伦斯《儿子与情人》读书报告 (英文版)
The Book Report - A Sample劳伦斯生于一八八五年九月十一日，一九三零年三月二日死于肺痨，终年四十四岁，是世界文学史上重要得不能再重要的人物。
最重要的作品有：《儿子和情人》，《虹》，《恋爱中的妇女》和《查太莱夫人的情人》。
《儿子和情人》是劳伦斯的成名之作，小说写尽恋母情节。
美国现代图书馆的二十世纪百部小说排名上，《儿子和情人》远远比劳伦斯其他入选小说靠前。
劳伦斯是能于无声处听见惊雷的人。
人最大的悲剧不在外部世界，不是地震，不是海啸，而在他的内心。
劳伦斯临死前将自己的一生概括为：A savage enough pilgrimage（残酷的朝圣之旅）。
或许就是这种苦难，这种对自己的心灵绝不放过的苛求，造就了文字的力量。
Sons and Lovers is a novel written by David Herbert Lawrence and it was first published in 1913 in London by Wyman & Sons.D. H. Lawrence was born at Eastwood, Notts, on September 11, 1885, the fourth child of a miner who had been employed at Brinsley Colliery since he was 7 years old. In 1911, his first novel The White Peacock was published.Sons and Lovers is divided into two parts and is composed of 15 chapters altogether. The story, set in England, can be interpreted as an autobiographical novel of Lawrence. The hero of the book, Paul Morel, is the second son of a miner's family. His mother, Mrs. Morel, is a daughter of a mid-class family. Because of the differences in family background and education, a shadow is soon cast upon the married life of Mrs. Morel. And this shadow is darkened by Mr. Morel's laziness and alcoholism. By misfortune or bad luck, Mr. Morel has an accident and becomes a cripple, which changes him into a man of bad temper. As a result, the couple shares less and less the things in common and is driven farther and farther apart from each other. Little by little, Mrs. Morel transports her attention and love to her children, especially her two sons, William and Paul. She encourages them to leave the small mining region for a big city to find opportunities for a better life. After the death of her first son, William, because of hard work and pneumonia(肺炎), Mrs. Morel's divided attention and love is poured completely upon Paul. The mother's abnormal love robs Paul of his normal love for his girl friend.Sons and Lovers has always been claimed since its publication to be another version of Oedipus complex*. But D. H. Lawrence is in no sense an imitator. Sons and Lovers is trulyan autobiographical novel. It describes an ordinary life of a coal miner's family. The abnormal love from the mother deprives Paul of his independent personality and mental health. It is perhaps because of this true picture of life that the novel has won Lawrence everlasting reputation.Oedipus complex: (psych) love of an infant for the parent of the opposite sex, with jealousyof the other parent. The term originated from a Greek myth in which King Oedipus killed his father and married his mother.（心理学上）（儿子对母亲的）恋母情结（及对父亲的嫉妒）；（女儿对父亲的）恋父情结（及对母亲的嫉妒）。
英语学习资料：大卫·赫伯特·劳伦斯英语散文：Insouciance
英语学习资料：大卫·赫伯特·劳伦斯英语散文：Insouciance 大卫·赫伯特·劳伦斯英语散文：Insouciance戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯（DavidHerbertlawerence）是二十世纪英国诗人、小说家、散文家，。
他一生中创作了四十余部小说、诗歌、游记等作品，《儿子与情人》是其代表作。
My balcony is on the east side of the hotel, and my neighbours on the right are a Frenchman, white-haired, and his white-haired wife; my neighbour on the left are two little white-haired English ladies. And we are all mortally shy of one another.When I peep out of my room in the morning and see the matronly French lady in a purple silk wrapper, standing like the captain on the bridge surveying the morning, I pop in again before she can see me. And whenever I emerge during the day, I am aware of the two little white-haired ladies popping back like two white rabbits, so that literally I only see the whisk of their skirt-hems.This afternoon being hot and thundery, I woke up suddenly and went out on the balcony barefoot. There I sat serenely contemplating the world, and ignoring the two bundles of feet of the two little ladies which protruded from their open door ways, upon the end of two chaises longues. A hot, still afternoon! The lake shining rather glassy away below, the mountains rather sulky, the greenness very green, all a little silent and lurid, and two mowers moving with scythes, downhill just near; slush! slush! sound the scythe-strokes.The two little ladies bee aware of my presence. I bee awareof a certain agitation in the two bundles of feet wrapped in two discreet steamer rugs and protruding on the end of two chaises longues from the pair of doorways upon balcony next me. One bundle of feet suddenly disappears; so does the other. Silence!Then lo! with odd sliding suddenness a little white-haired lady in grey silk, with round blue eyes, emerges and looks straight at me, and remarks that it is pleasant now. A little cooler, say I, with false amiability. She quite agrees, and we speak of the men mowing: how plainly one hears the long breaths of the scythes.By now we are tête-à-tête. We speak of cherries, strawberries, and the promise of the vine crop. This somehow leads to Italy, and to Signor Mussolini. Before I know where I am, the little white-haired lady has swept me off my balcony, away from the glassy lake, the veiled mountains, the two men mowing, and the cherry trees, away into the troubled ether of international politics.I am not allowed to sit like a dandelion on my own stem. The little lady in a breath blows me abroad. And I was so pleasantly musing over the two men moving: the young one, with long legs in bright blue cotton trousers, and with bare black head, swinging so lightly downhill, and the other, in black trousers, rather stout in front, and wearing a new straw hat of the boater variety, ing rather stiffly after, crunching the end of his stroke with a certain violent effort.I was watching the curiously different motions of the two men, the young thin one in bright blue trousers, the elderly fat one in shabby black trousers that stick out in front, the different amount of effort in their mowing, the lack of grace in the elderly one, his jerky advance, the unpleasant effect of the new "boater" on his head -- and I tried to interest the little lady.But it meant nothing to her. The mowers, the mountains, thecherry trees, the lake, all the things that were ACTUALLY there, she didn't care about. They even seemed to scare her off the balcony. But she held her ground, and instead of herself being scared away, she snatched me up like some ogress, and swept me off into the empty desert spaces of right and wrong, politics, Fasci *** and the rest.The worst ogress couldn't have treated me more villainously.I don't care about right and wrong, politics, Fasci *** , abstract liberty, or anything else of the sort. I want to look at the mowers, and wonder why fatness, elderliness, and black trousers should inevitably wear a new straw hat of the boater variety, move in stiff jerks, shove the end of the scythe-strokes with a certain violence, and win my hearty disapproval, as contrasted with young long thinness, bright blue cotton trousers, a bare black head, and a pretty lifting movement at the end of the scythestroke.Why do modern people almost invariably ignore the things that are actually present to them? Why, having e out from England to find mountains, lakes, scythe-mowers and cherry trees, does the little blue-eyed lady resolutely close her blue eyes to them all, now she's got them, and gaze away to Signor Musolini, whom she hasn't got, and to Fasci *** , which is invisible anyhow? Why isn't she content to be where she is? Why can't she be happy with what she's got? Why must she CARE?I see now why her round blue eyes are so round, so noticeably round, It is because she "cares." She is haunted by that mysterious bugbear of "caring." For everything on earth that doesn't concern her she "cares." She cares terribly because far-off, invisible, hypothetical Italians wear black shirts, but she doesn't care a rap that one elderly mower whose stroke she can hear, wears black trousers instead of bright blue cotton ones.Now if she would descend from the balcony and climb the grassy slope and say to the fat mower: "Cher monsieur, pourquoi porlez-vous les pantalons noirs? why, Oh, why do you wear black trousers?" -- then I should say: what an on-the-spot little lady! -- But since she only torments me with international politics. I can only remark: What a tiresome off-the-spot old woman!They care! They simply are eaten up with caring. They are so busy caring about Fasci *** or Leagues of Nations or whether France is right or whether Marriage is threatened, that they never know where they are. They certainly never live on the spot. They inhabit abstract space, the desert void of politics, principles, right and wrong, and so forth. They are doomed to be abstract. Talking to them is like trying to have a human relationship with the letter x in algebra.There simply is a deadly breach between actual living and this abstract caring. What is actual living? It is a question mostly of direct contact. There was a direct sensuous contact between me, the lake, mountains, cherry trees, mowers, and a certain invisible but noisy chaffinch in a clipped lime tree. All this was cut off by the fatal shears of that abstract word FASCISM, and the little old lady next door was the Atropos who cut the thread of my actual life this afternoon. She beheaded me, and flung my head into abstract space Then we are supposed to love our neighbours!When it es to living, we live through our instincts and our intuitions, Instinct makes me run from little over-earnest ladies; instinct makes me sniff the lime blossoms and reach for the darkest cheery. But it is intuition which makes me feel the uncanny glassiness of the lake this afternoon, the sulkiness of the mountains, the vividness of near green in thundersun, the youngman in bright blue trousers, lightly tossing the grass from the scythe, the elderly man in a boater stiffly shoving his scythe strokes, both of them sweating in the silence of the intense light.。
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Author —— David Herbert Lawrence
About thnglish writer and poet.
A member of a mining family
• The love, the sex between women and men. • The height of philosophy and aesthetics.
However, Paul fells in love with Miriam later. Mrs. Morel is very angry and not allows Paul to marry Miriam. She thinks Miriam is a bad woman who wants to take her son away.
As his growing up, the emotion between Paul and his mother becomes deep day after day, so that Paul loves Miriam, but he can’t marry her, then he only can keep ambiguous relationship with Clara who has a husband. Finally, Paul leaves the city after his mother dies.
Paul’s mother marries Mr. Morel early. She has three children. But as a miner, Mr. Morel’s temper is getting worse, he always fights and argues with his wife. Mrs. Morel is disappointed, so she rests her hope on her first son--William.
My Views
• I think Paul is a poor man. His mother’s love tortures Paul all the time. When Mrs. Morel dies, she takes away his spirit prop. • Through this book, the author describes the same experience in his childhood.
Unfortunately, William dies, Mrs. Morel is depressed. She gives all love to her little son --- Paul. She loves Paul very much and encourages him to become a successful business man. She controls him everything, makes Paul only love her.
About the book
There are six main characters . Mr. Morel --- father Mrs. Morel --- mother William --- brother Paul --- hero Miriam --- girlfriend Clara --- girlfriend