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).。
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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