Sons and Lovers
sons and lovers经典语录
Sons and Lovers经典语录介绍《Sons and Lovers》是英国作家D·H·劳伦斯于1913年出版的一部小说。
这部小说深入描绘了人性、家庭关系以及爱情的复杂性。
其中包含了许多经典的语录，这些语录展示了作品中的主题和人物的内心世界。
本文将通过整理这些语录的方式，全面、详细、完整地探讨《Sons and Lovers》中的核心主题。
爱的种类1. 母爱•“The loving is like the skin, flexible, and with fine nerves, everywhere sensitive.”（“爱就像皮肤，灵活而敏感。
”）•“She had a curious way of showing her pure, strong affection.”（“她表达纯洁而坚定的感情的方式很奇特。
”）2. 恋人间的爱•“Then came that dangerous tense state between lovers, when nei ther will give way.”（“恋人之间出现了那种不容忽视的紧张状态，双方都不肯退让。
”）•“Paul looked at her, and their eyes met…”（“保罗看着她，他们的目光相遇……”）3. 父爱•“And very tender he was over his children.”（“他对孩子们非常温柔。
”）•“She preferred that her children should identify themselves with their father.”（“她希望孩子们更多地认同他们的父亲。
”）人物内心世界的展示1. 保罗•“A poison-fly was gnawing his heart.”（“一只毒蝇正在啃噬着他的心脏。
”）•“The inward conflict of her son had sometimes taken her breath away.”（“儿子内心的冲突有时让她窒息不已。
儿子与情人英文读后感读书笔记
儿子与情人英文读后感读书笔记儿子与情人英文读后感读书笔记《儿子与情人》是劳伦斯早期写作生涯的成功典范,也是英国文学史上的一部极具代表性和经典性的`力作。
以下是店铺为大家提供的儿子与情人英文读后感,供大家参考借鉴!儿子与情人英文读后感(一)Sons and Lovers was D.H. Lawrence's first major novel. His only major novel, some would say; but even readers who are out of sympathy with him, or who feel that his gifts were not really those of a novelist, have usually been happy to make a wholehearted exception in this one case.It is a book that goes straight to the point, at the outset and at almost every subsequent stage. Between them his two methods leave us in no doubt where the heart of his story is to be located.Gertrude Morel is a woman of high principle, of character and refinement. Her husband is a miner who can barely read and write. Marrying him for passion, she is bitterly disappointed by his rough manners, his drinking, what she can only see as his weakness and irresponsibility. When the book opens, the marriage has already turned into a battlefield, and the love she has withdrawn from Morel is being redirected toward the first of her children. In the previous chapters, Gertrude Morel is most devoted to her eldest son William. But after he dies of a skin disease, she plunges into grief. Seeing William is gone, she rededicates her life to Paul, and this revives her. She teaches her son art, education, and social advancement. She lives for her sons and will do anything to see them make their way in the world.Mrs. Morel is terribly tired of her involvement in Paul andMiriam's relationship and decides to stop intervening. She knows that Paul is an adult now and that there is nothing she can do to stop Paul from seeing Miriam. She feels that she can never forgive her son for sacrificing himself to love Miriam. As it mentions above, Paul has begun to realize how much his mother affects his life. Her deep love for him has made her a part of himself that when he wants to break free from his mother, he is unable to get away from her. His mother is ingrained into his very soul.That’s to say, his mother influences Paul very much, and which proves to be for worse to him. When Paul finds girlfriend, he always find the girl who takes after his mother, not only the out look but also in mental. But in fact he could not find such girl. So it lead to that he never willing to be bound to Miriam in marriage or to Clara in physical love. At last Paul has begun to realize how much his mother affects his life. Her deep love for him has made her a part of himself that when he wants to break free from his mother, he is unable to get away from her. His mother is ingrained into his very soul.To sum up, Paul’s mother has some bad influence on him and to a large extent changes his life.儿子与情人英文读后感(二)eading Report of Sons and Lovers During my extracurricular time, I started reading Sons and Lovers, which was written by David Herbert Lawrence. He was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter who published as D. H. Lawrence. He was born on September 11, 1885 to a miner and his wife in the small village of Eastwood near Nottingham, England. Arthur and Lydia Lawrence, his parents, had a troublesome marriage from the start: his father, a miner, wascontent to stay on the mining grounds while his mother yearned to leave. So his childhood was dominated by poverty and friction between his parents. He was educated at Nottingham High School, and won a scholarship. He worked as a clerk in a surgical appliance factory, and then for four years as a pupil-teacher. He was died in Vence, France on March 2, 1930. Lawrence is now valued by many as a visionary thinker and significant representative of modernism in English literature. There is a background before the author wrote this book. Lawrence lived at a time when the Industrial Revolution was taking on the whole world, especially in Great Britain, which changed from agricultural society towards industrial society. And it brought all changes in national and personal lives. Lawrence?s novel Sons and Lovers deals with Lawrence?s personal experiences in the working-class environment in Nottinghamshire.Sons and Lovers is the third published novel of D. H. Lawrence, taken by many to be his earliest masterpiece. It tells the story of Paul Morel, a young man and a budding artist. This autobiographical novel is a brilliant evocation of life in a working class mining community. This novel is about the life of Movels. Mr.Morel, Mrs.Moel, 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. I divided this book into two parts. Now I will introduce the first part of this book.The refined daughter of a “good old burgher family,” Gertrude Coppard meets a rough-hewn miner at a Christmas dance and falls into a whirlwind romance. But soon after her marriage to Walter Morel, she realizes the difficulties of living off his meager salary in a rented house. The couple fight and driftapart and Walter retreats to the pub after work each day. Gradually, Mrs.Morel?saffections shift to her sons, beginning with the oldest, William. As a boy, William is so attached to his mother that he doesn?t enjoy the fair without her. As he grows older, he defends her against his father?s occasional violence. Eventually, he leaves home for a job in London, where he begins to rise up into the middle class. He is engaged, but he detests the girl?s superficiality. He dies, and Mrs. Morel is heartbroken, but when William catches pneumonia, she rediscovers her love for her second son. Both repulsed by and drawn to his mother, Paul is afraid to leave her but wants to go out on his own, and needs to experience love. Gradually, he falls into a relation ship with Miriam, a farm girl who attends his church. The two take long walks and have intellectual conversations about books, but resists in, in part because his mother looks down on her.I want to introduce the three characters of this book: Mr. Morel, Mrs Morel and Miriam Leviers. Mr. Morel is Paul's rough, sensual, hard-drinking father. In many ways, he is his wife's opposite. Mr. Morel is from a lower-class mining family. He speaks the local dialect in contrast to his wife's refined English. He loves to drink and dance practices that Mrs. Morel, a strict Congregationalist, considers sinful. Mrs Morel is one of the most formidable mothers in all of Western literature. To the narrator, and perhaps to Paul Morel, she is both a giving, selfless nurturer of her children and a possessive tyrant. Miriam Leviers, Paul's teenage friend and sweetheart, was modeled after Lawrence's own young love, Miriam is Paul's devoted helpmate in his artistic and spiritual quests. Although beautiful, she takes no pleasure in her physical attributes. Her whole life is geared towards heavenand a mystical sense of nature.This is the most autobiographical of all Lawrence?s works as the author himself had a similar relationship with his own mother. The use of this oedipal theme is one of a number of Freudian concepts he used throughout his books. Like many of his works, Sons and Lovers was criticized when first published for obscenity and one publisher called it ”the dirtiest book he had ever read”, but compared to his later works it is quite constrained.There are three females that Paul had loved. The first person is his mother. Paul is afraid to leave her but wants to go out on his own, and experience love. Then, it is Miriam, whom is a farm girl. They have intellectual conversations about books in the nature. At last, Paul meets Clara Dawes, who has separated from her husband, Paul get physical satisfaction from her.I want to show my opinions about the love between Paul and Miriam.Miriam Leviers, Paul's teenage friend and sweetheart, was modeled after Lawrence's own young love. She is romantic in her soul but timid and sensitive in appearance. Miriam is Paul's devoted helpmate in his artistic and spiritual quests. Although beautiful, she takes no pleasure in her physical attributes. Her whole life is geared towards heaven and a mystical sense of nature. Miriam is Paul?s first lover. Miriam loves Paul, but she can?t admit to and has no courage to love. When she loves Paul, she only wants to dominate his mind, then to catch Paul?s whole soul. But Paul knows that Miriam only loves his soul and wants to posses him. In this book, there is a dialogue between them which Paul rejected Miriam. Miriam said:” You had said that we belong to each other.” “I was young. I did belong to my mother and now she is died. I don?t want to live again with you, not even with you. I?m sure I?ll never find one as good as you, But perhaps Iunderstand at last what the mean to live,” said Paul. For Paul, mother?s love makes him unhappy, while Miriam seems like his mother as both want to control his soul. Of course, he will against that form of love as he thinks that?s not love and wants to escape from this spiritual love. I think the love was failed because of Miriam?s possession.Then, I?d like to compare Lawrence as a combination of both William and Paul. As William, he was a man who grew in such family and had a strong will to break the shackles of his class. William was gifted, he was successful in both his academy work and interpersonal relational, and he escaped from his lamentable family to London. The mentality of William just like Lawrence purred his feel to this character subconsciously: the disgust of his father, admiration of mother, struggle to free himself from the mournful family. All these characteristics are based on author himself experience. Of course, these stuffs also connected with the society at that time, which class you came from can be the first to affect who you were or how you were, in order to change your social status, the post important was to change the class you belonged to. All these ideology created both Lawrence and his William.At the moment, it?s clear that Paul?s Oedipus complex and reasons. Actually Paul has not become a normal adult by getting over some problems likeother children. That is not only determined by his mother?s abnormal maternity. The reasons are in many ways, some comes from the parents; some comes from his sisters and brothers, some even from the society, the mechanical civilization, which leads to the family tragedy and distortion of personality.儿子与情人英文读后感(三)wrence and his Sons and Lovers Sons and Lovers was regarded as his autobiography, actually, I strongly agree with this view. I’d like to compare the novel with Lawrence in the following three aspects: family background, the shackle of class and Oedipus complex. First is the background. As to wrence, he was born in a family which his father was a miner who hardly received any education, instead of his mother with well education and her personal ideal of the politics or philosophy. Compared with Sons and Lovers, the hero’s family is similar with Lawrence’s-----vulgar father, well-educated mother. The father who works as a miner, nothing like to do but drinking, his words usually can be rude no matter what to his wife or his children;the mother, a well educated lady, fell in love with Mr. Morels accidently, but the reality finally defeated her romance, the humble and mediocre life struck her dream of being honorable. All in all, these situations are reflection of La wrence’s life, not only the characteristics of parents but also the surroundings, like working in the mine, living a strapped life and so on. Secondly, to a certain degree, I’d like to compare Lawrence as a combination of both William and Paul (the eldest son and younger son in the novel). As William, he was a man who grew in such family and had a strong will to break the shackles of his class. William was gifted, he was successful in both his academy work and interpersonal relationship, and he escaped from his lamentable family to London. The mentality of William just like Lawrence’s that a canary in the cage who tried to get away to the broad sky. So in this aspect, I think Lawrence purred his feel to this character subconsciously: the disgust of his father, admiration of his mother, struggle to free himself from themournful family. All these characteristics are based on author himself experience. Of course, these stuffs also connected with the society at that time, which class you came from can be the first to affect who you were or how you were, in order to change your social status, the most important was to change the class you belonged to. All these ideology created both Lawrence and his William. Last but not the least I want to point out is Oedipus complex which showing explicitly in the novel, peculiarly on Paul, the younger son who faced the difficulty when his love countered to Miss Miriam, the deeply love towards his mother----Mrs. Morel, which was clanged his tightly. He can find his true love until one he emancipated himself from his mother’s love. Paul would be entangled with dilemma every time when he stayed with Miriam;he could not love her from heart as his will and another hand, he can’t abandon his love to his mother. As a generally thought, Mrs. Morel was regarded as Lawrence’s mother----Lydia, Miss Miriam was recognized as Lawrence’s first girlfriend----Jessie. In this point, Lawrence endowed his Oedipus complex on his Paul, in the novel, the agonized and miserable love was showed incisively and vividly. From all above, we can see distinctly, the novel----- Sons and Lovers is an autobiography of Lawrence himself, not only on the background of the society, family, but also the personality of the leading character. From the novel, we can have a glimpse of Lawrence’s private life;a talent suffered from his anguished and miserable love, and shackle of class.【儿子与情人英文读后感读书笔记】。
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。
Sons_and_Lovers 英文简介
Sons and Lovers--Plot introductionThe third published novel of D.H. Lawrence, taken by many to be his earliest masterpiece tells the story of Paul Morel, a young man and a budding artist. This autobiographical novel is a brilliant evocation of life in a working class mining community. The original 1913 edition was heavily edited by Edward Garnett who removed eighty passages, roughly a tenth of the text. Despite this the novel is dedicated to Garnett. It was not until the 1992 Cambridge University Press edition that the missing text was restored.Explanation of the novel's titleLawrence rewrote the work four times until he was happy with it. Although before publication the work was usually called Paul Morel, Lawrence finally settled on Sons and Lovers. Just as this changed title makes the work less focused on a central character, many of the latter additions broadened the scope of the work thereby making the work less autobiographical. While some of the edits by Garnett were on the grounds of propriety or style, others would once more narrow the emphasis back upon Paul.Plot summaryPart I:The refined daughter of a "good old burgher family," Gertrude Coppard meets a rough-hewn miner at a Christmas dance and falls into a whirlwind romance. But soon after her marriage to Walter Morel, she realizes the difficulties of living off his meager salary in a rented house. The couple fight and drift apart and Walter retreats to the pub after work each day. Gradually, Mrs. Morel's affections shift to her sons, beginning with the oldest, William.As a boy, William is so attached to his mother that he doesn't enjoy the fair without her. As he grows older, he defends her against his father's occasional violence. Eventually, he leaves home for a job in London, where he begins to rise up into the middle class. He is engaged, but he detests the girl's superficiality. He dies, and Mrs. Morel is heartbroken, but when Paul catches pneumonia, she rediscovers her love for her second son.Part II:Both repulsed by and drawn to his mother, Paul is afraid to leave her but wants to go out on his own, and needs to experience love. Gradually, he falls into a relationship with Miriam, a farm girl who attends his church. The two take long walks and have intellectual conversations about books, but Paul resists, in part because his mother looks down on her. At work, Paul meets Clara Dawes, who has separated from her husband, Baxter.Paul leaves Miriam behind as he grows more intimate with Clara, but even she cannot hold him,and he returns to his mother. When his mother dies soon after, he is alone.Lawrence summarised the plot in a letter to Edward Garnett on 12 November 1912:It follows this idea: a woman of character and refinement goes into the lower class, and has no satisfaction in her own life. She has had a passion for her husband, so her children are born of passion, and have heaps of vitality. But 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 mother is the strongest power in their lives, and holds them. It's rather like Goethe and his mother and Frau von Stein and Christiana — As soon as the young men come into contact with women, there's a split. William gives his sex to a fribble, and his mother holds his soul. But the split kills him, because he doesn't know where he is. The next son gets a woman who fights for his soul — fights his mother. The son loves his mother —all the sons hate and are jealous of the father. The battle goes on between the mother and the girl, with the son as object. The mother gradually proves stronger, because of the ties of blood. The son decides to leave his soul in his mother's hands, and, like his elder brother go for passion. He gets passion. Then the split begins to tell again. But, almost unconsciously, the mother realises what is the matter, and 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.This is the most autobiographical of all Lawrence's works as the author himself had a similar relationship with his own mother. The use of this oedipal theme is one of a number of Freudian concepts he used throughout his books. Like many of his works, Sons and Lovers was criticized when first published for obscenity and one publisher called it "the dirtiest book he had ever read" but compared to his later works it is quite constrained.。
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
Mrs. Morel :I like him love with right girl ,someone stronger than you
“I can't bear it. I could let another woman--- but not her. She'd leave me no room, not a bit of room.”
Coal miner once a humorous, lively cruel, selfish alcoholic
William’s death: not simply result from his mother’s maternal love, but embodies the sad encounters of a working-class young man who tries to walk into upper-class society.
Novel
short stories
• • • • • The Daughter of the Vicar牧师的女儿 The Horse Dealer‘s Daughter马贩子的女儿 The Captain‘s Doll上尉的偶像 The Prussian Officer普鲁士军官 The Virgin and the Gypsy少女与吉普赛人
His parents
He was the second son of his family. His father Arthur John Lawrence is a barely literate and irreligious, heavy drinking miner who spoke the rough Nottinghamshire dialect. working-class Lydia ,his mother who is a well-educated chapel-goer (a person who often goes to the chapel) and had been a school-teacher who spoke the standard English and came to look down upon her uncultured husband. middle-class
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.
Sons and Lovers 英文读书报告
Possessive Love—Sons and LoversSons and Lovers, first published in 1913, is a classic written by D.H. Lawrence. Although Sons and Lovers deals with the possessive love with candor and gave rise to a fierce controversy then, it is still one of the greatest autobiographical novels of the 20th centuryThe story occurs in Britain back to the 19th century, when the UK was undergoing the Industrial Revolution. The author presents us a vivid picture of the life of a typical working-class family living in a community of a mining company. With roaring engines and the smoky sky, the story begins.Gertrude Coppard, an elegant middle-class woman, marries Walter Morel, a vulgar working-class miner on an impulse. As the love dies down gradually and chores haunt her frequently, Mrs. Morel’s mental attachment to her husband eventually yields to possessive love on her sons—William and Paul. By and by, the love is growing so overwhelming that the sons have no chance to escape from this entanglement nor, even, can Mrs. Morel get rid of the obsession with her sons. When the two sons are, however, confronted with the chance to pursue their own love, they tend to be fragile, sensitive and awkward. William lavishes on his relationship with Miss Western, a light-hearted young girl, only to find love is no more than money to her and he is totally forgotten by the girl soon after his death; Paul seesaws between Miriam and Clara, finding no way to love pure Miriam completely for her belief in platonic love nor married Clara for their adultery and Mrs. Morel, in addition, makes every effort to prevent her power over Paul from being grabbed by the lovers. As Mrs. Morel passes away, the shackle upon Paul is removed. Insecure and exhausted, hewanders alone, finally.In the eyes of D.H. Lawrence, love is no longer merely a soothing rub; when it grows too possessive, it turns to a heavy punch knocking down everyone.It is the lack of husband’s love actually that gives rise to the possessive love. At first, Mrs. Morel has good management of her love, e.g., on the one hand, she is receiving love from her husband and children; on the other hand she loves them unconditionally in return. Then, however, as the gap between her and Mr. Morel becomes increasingly unbridgeable, this equilibrium is broken that husband’s love is no longer available. As a result, Mrs. Morel decides to do investment of love in order to compensate for the loss of husband’s love.She withdraws her love from her husband who turns out to be an “unfavorable share”and invests it in her two sons. Under the disguise of maternal love, her excessive devotion to the sons is taken as no more than the responsibility of a mother and soon begins to make profits on William: he turns against his father, burns the love letters from young ladies and wins an anvil—all the things the decent young man does only for her. Though she is quite clear that she can never marry William, she regards him as her real husband whose caring deeds are taken as gestures of affection and brings her satisfaction as husband’s love ever did.She should have been content with what she has already gained from this practice of investment, but, unfortunately, she becomes too obsessed to stop and after the death of William she descends to an incurable love speculator finally. Her possessive love reaches its peak.After the death of William, Mrs. Morel has no choice but to put all her devotion to Paul for fear that all her previous efforts should be in vain. And Paul, the poor boy, is totally trapped but cannot figure out why it is so. The confusion is elaborated by Lawrence frequently.” He knew she suffered badly, but why should she? And why did he hate Miriam, and feel so cruel towards her, at the thought of his mother. If Miriam caused his mother suffering, then he hated her—and he easily hated her. Why did he make him…”As a lonely woman, Mrs. Morel wins sound profits from her love investment and then speculation, for her needs of husband’s love are amply met. As a mother, however, she is selfish and her possessive love finally ruins William and Paul despite her great devotion to them.。
sons and lovers 爱情观PPT教学课件
• Miriam
• female is of less status
• religious zeal
• afraid of any thought relating to sex, including marriage and having a baby
• Paul • delicate • sensitive • moody • quiet • shy
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Paul and Miriam
• share common interest • cannot release sexual passion • suffocating • she wants to possess his soul
just spiritual love
failure
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Lawrence' s views on love
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Lawrence' s views on love
• A day or two after his mother died, Lawrence took Jessie for a walk and told her: “You know, J., I’ve always loved mother.”
Spiritual communication
“ I know you have.” She replied.
“I don’t mean that.” He answered.” “I’ve loved her---live a love---that’s why I could never love you.”
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Sons and Lovers
About the author: Sons and Lovers is one of the great works of twentieth-century literature. In 1913, at the time of its first publication, Lawrence narrowly agreed to the removal, not fewer than eighty passages, which until now have never been restored. Lawrence is often regarded as one of the famous modernists in early 20th century, but he is more a modernist in theme than in experiment and new technique. Many of Lawrence's novels are very controversial because of their frank treatment o f sex. The roots of Sons and Lovers are clearly located in Lawrence's life. His childhood, coal-mining town of Eastwood was changed, with a sardonic twist, to Bestwood.
The novel begins with the unhappy marriage of Mrs. Morel. Her husband is a miner who indulges in drinking and treats her very badly. Estranged from her husband, Mrs. Morel takes comfort in her four children, especially her sons. After the death of William, Paul becomes the most important of her life, and the mother and the son are closely linked and seem to live for each other. Later Paul falls in love with Miriam, who lives on a nearby farm. For years the relationship of the two is intimate, but purely platonic. Paul meets Clara Dawes, a married woman estranged from her husband. As he becomes closer with Clara and they begin to discuss his relationship with Miriam, she tells him that he should consider consummating their love and he returns to Miriam to see how she feels. Paul and Miriam sleep together and are briefly happy, but shortly after ward break off, for he realizes that he don’t want to marry her. After breaking off his relationship with Miriam, Paul begins to spend more time with Clara and they begin an extremely passionate love affair. Paul's mother falls ill and he devotes much of his time to caring for her. When she finally dies, he is broken-hearted and realizes he loves his mother most. He goes off alone at the end of the novel.
This novel is Lawrence’s semi-autobiographical masterpiece. As Mrs. Morel’s sons grow up she selects them as lovers--first the eldest, then the second. But when they come to manhood, they can't love, because their mother is the strongest power in their lives. She loathes Paul's girl friend Miriam from the start, understanding that the girl's deep love of her son will replace 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 committing himself in either direction: "Why did his mother sit at home and suffer?... And why did he hate Miriam, and feel so cruel towards her, at the thought of his mother. If Miriam caused his mother 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.” As Paul voyages from the working-class mining world to the spheres of commerce and art, he accepts that his own achievements must be equally his mother's. "There was so much to come out of him. 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 Lawrence does nothing to dim their intensity. Sons and Lovers lays fully bare the souls of men and earth.. Few books tell such whole, complicated truths about such love as resolutely without resolution.
Whenever people talk about Sons and Lovers, they are inclined to relate it to
Oedipus complex, as if the novel well illustrates Freud’s theory. The complex of emotions aroused in a young child, typically around the age of four, by an unconscious sexual desire for the parent of the opposite sex and a wish to exclude the parent of the same sex.
Paul has a difficult time with the relationship，it is because that subconsciously he is too involved in his own mother. There is a deep breach between son and father. The children love their mother and hate their father. Paul has great Oedipus complex. Paul doesn’t feel free to fall in love with women because of his Oedipus complex. He suffers a lot in the battles of the inner world. Paul and his mother has a conflict over Miriam, because he thought the girl had become important in his life.。