Resumo de Sons And Lovers

THE OEDIPUS COMPLEX

The term Oedipus has been derived from the name of the king Oedipus of Thebes, who though in ignorance, married his own mother and had children by her. Freud used this term to explain the manifestation of infantile sexuality in the relation of the child to its parents .The Oedipus complex ?is a state in which a person shows excessive affection for the parent opposite in sex to him or herself, and a corresponding distaste for his or her other parent ?.if it is a son who is excessively fond of his mother as is Paul morel fond of MRS Morel, we may describe him as a victim of the mother fixation.

THE UNHAPPY MARRIED LIFE OF THE MORELS AND THE OEDIPUS COMPLEX

Gertrude Morel, a fanatically moral and religious woman, at twenty-one, marries a warm, sensuous and indulgent miner, Walter morel who had a rich, ringing laugh and a red, moist mouth .The first few months of their married life are extremely happy but gradually the feeble bond of their poetized passion snaps and MRS Morel feels disgusted with her husband?s habitual drunkenness His indulgent and shiftless ways and his temperamental dishonesty. As her elder son William grows up. Mrs. Morel begins to alienate Walter morel and seek emotional fulfillment through her son. William also instinctively responds to her. but she is so over-possessive that as William comes in contact with other girls and goes dancing with them, she finds it difficult to tolerate them. in fact she expresses her hostility towards them in rather crude and jarring terms. Torn with conflict between his love for his mother and his infatuation with Gypsy, he suffers from terrible spiritual anguish an finally dies.

PAUL AND MRS MOREL

Mrs. Morel had conceived Paul unwillingly out of a loveless relation and had dreaded his birth. she was afraid that he might be unhealthy or malformed (ironically which is true of the psychological make up of Paul).and she decided that ?with all her force, with all her soul, she would make up to it for having brought it into the world unloved .she would love it all the more now it was here, carry it in her love.? the situation presented here is analogous to the much dreaded portents in the beginning of some Greek tragedy; surely it proves quite ominous. As Paul grows up, he sticks to his mother and trots after her like her shadow.

THE HATRED BETWEEN THE FATHER AND THE SON

The Oedipus complex is bound to entail the envy of the father .the child looks at his father as a rival in his domination over his mother?s love, though quite unconsciously. Thus there is generated a feeling of hatred and hostility between the father and the son .and in fact, throughout the second half of the novel, Paul?s relation with his mother is that of a husband substitute .he instinctively sticks to her as if he were her man.SONS AND LOVERS has been described as the first Freudian novel in English .it does present the Freudian Oedipus complex.

GINNI

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