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 AND

OEDIPUS COMPLEX IN SONS AND

LOVERS

----对《儿子与情人》中占有欲以及恋母情结的

分析

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完成日期：2010年11月22日

My Analysis of Possession and Oedipus complex in Sons and

Lovers

Abstract

David 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。在他一生的文学生涯中，他写了十几部小说和短篇小说若干册。他著有很多不朽的作品，其中流传最广的小说是《儿子与情人》。这本小说主要讲述莫瑞尔一家人的生活。小说的主要角色有莫瑞尔太太与莫瑞尔先生、威廉、保尔、米丽安和克拉拉。作者主要以这些角色之间的关系来推动着整篇小说的发展。但这些关系最终的结局都是悲剧，而且这种悲剧在我们现代社会中也可看到。其悲剧产生的原因是显而易见的占有欲。本文将从不同的人物关系中的占有去论证此观点。即妻子对丈夫的占有,母亲对两个儿子的占有，两个女朋友对保罗的占有，以及保罗的恋母情节来分析强烈占有的危害。

关键词：悲剧；人物关系；恋母情节；占有欲

Contents

1. Introduction

1.1 About David Herbert Lawrence

1.2 About Sons and Lovers

2. The possession of Mrs. Morel to Mr. Morel (2)

3. The possession of Mrs. Morel to her sons (4)

3.1 The possession of Mrs. Morel to her eldest son, which causes the death of her

son (4)

3.2 The possession of Mrs. Morel to her second son, which causes the crippled

love

(5)

4. The destruction of possession to love (6)

4.1 The spiritual possession of Miriam to Paul, which causes the distress

between Paul and Miriam (6)

4.2 The physical possession of Clara to Paul, which causes the parting (7)

5. Conclusion (9)

Notes (9)

Bibliography (10)

My Analysis of Possession and Oedipus complex in Sons and

Lovers

1. Introduction

1.1About David Herbert Lawrence

DH Lawrence is one of the most original and controversial English writers of the 20th century. During his life-long literary career, he had written more than ten novels and several short stories. He was best known as a novelist. Besides being a great novelist, he is also a poet, an essayist, a travel-writer, and literary correspondent. His Sons and Lovers is considered as one of the most popular novel. Lawrence took human relationship, especially that of men and women, to build his novel. His first novel was Sons and Lovers. His other famous works are the Rainbow, Women in Love, The Lost Girl, Lady Chatterley's Lover and so on.

1.2 About Sons and Lovers

Sons and Lovers is one of Lawrence's most popular novels. It tells the story of a miner's family-the Morel family. Mrs. Morel, mother of the sons, is the major character in this novel. She is a woman of high education, middle-class lady who is disillusioned with her husband, a coarse and hard-drinking miner. Her husband, Mr. Morel comes from the lower-class, who can hardly read and write but dance well. After they have been married for several years, Mr. Morel works very hard for family, but he ignores his wife. He doesn’t know she begins to change her manner to him. She is disappointed by his rough manners, his drinking, and his clownery. And the difficult life make the marriage turned into a battlefield. And the love she has withdrawn from Morel is being redirected toward the first of her children. Such is the world into which Paul Morel is born. And the sons all love their mother and are jealous of the father.

She has had a passion for her husband, but her husband can’t give what she wanted. So her children are born of passion, and have heaps of vitality. But as her sons are grow up she selects them as lovers, first the eldest, then the second. But when the sons come to manhood, they can’t love, because their mother is the strongest power in their lives, and holds them. Then, this possession killed her first son, William. The next son gets a woman who fights for his soul, fights his mother. Of cause, the mother is powerful because of the ties of blood. Finally, the son decides to leave his soul in his mother’ hands, like his brother go for passion. He gets passion. But, when his mother begins to die, the son casts off his mistress, attends to his mother dying. He is left in the end naked of everything, with the drift towards death.

The result are obvious, the end of the relationship in Morel’ family is a tragedy. In this thesis will analyze the cause of tragedy—possession, it is the desire of the holding or having something as one’s own or under one’s control. There are many strong possessions in this novel and it brings much destruction to relationship.