Resumo de Sons And Lovers - D. H. Lawrence

Sons and LoversD.H.Lawrence is a gifted writer, and he has a peculiar instinct for truth. This made all his novels great. Sons and Lovers is his first real novel, it is almost an autobiographical novel. As he writes without sensoring his experience, we don't feel that we are reading a fiction, but reading the story of a real life charged with emotions. Paul Morel is the main character in the story. The novel initially carried his name as the title, but lawrence changed it later. Truly, the story is the story of sons and lovers, love remaining unfulfilled due to their emotional attachment to the mother. In other words, it is a story of mother-fixation. Paul's father, Mr. Morel, always gets drunk and turns violent. So, his wife slowly turns away from him and depends more on her children. The eldest son becomes a man, falls in love with a girl, but finds it difficult to marry, as the mother would stand in between. He dies falling ill. The attention now turns to the second son, Paul. He too falls in love with a girl, named Miriam. The story is mainly about their sweet love. How the physical pull of these two young sexually charged bodies is hampered by the mother's anxiety of loosing her son is excellently narrated by Lawrence in the novel. As Paul is in a dilemma, oscillating between Miriam and mother, the readers become helpless, as nothing can be done to redeem the two innocent and tortured souls. The power of sexual impulses crushed by social interference in the form of the mother is what the helpless readers continue to observe in the novel. Paul, like Hamlet, begins to hate both the women, particularly his mother. In the mean time he meets a sexually matured woman, Clara (Mrs.Dawes). Now, Paul gets a female body to sexually ease himself out, in which there is no soul attached. In fact, a conversation between these two characters is the most interesting part of the novel. She tells Clara that he loved Miriam, but, she wants a sort of soul union. Clara replies that what Miriam wants is man, Paul, and not any sorts of soul communion. However, it was too late a realization to make a come back. He had gone too far. He lost everything. His mother died. The chapter in which she dies is titled Release. While Lawrence was writing this novel, Freud was busy formulating his theory of Oedipus complex. Sons and Lovers is a beautiful novel. If anyone missed reading it, the loss cannot be estimated.

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