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Essay / Symbolism in Sons And Lovers - 2562
Sons and Lovers is an important novel because it depicts the working class with a sense of interiority rarely seen in the English novel. For it effectively renders the power and mystery of sexual passion and recognizes it as a healthy existence. He uses images and symbols judiciously to communicate his vision. Thanks to its richness and complexity, we find a variety of approaches to this novel. Some can be classified on the basis of autobiographical, sociological, psychoanalytic, feminist and structural. DH Lawrence's Sons and Lovers may be the best picture of the industrial working class lifestyle. The portrayal of the characters is free of condescending humor or romantic identification. DH Lawrence himself described his work as a novel dealing with the life of the mining community in Nottinghamshire, England. It pushes the boundaries of English fiction that was supposed to belong to the bourgeois class. There is a double realization of the miracle of language as well as of interiority with the subject. Sons and Lovers is a novel about a young man's excessive, even erotic, attachment to his mother, his jealousy of his father, and his inability to give complete love to another woman. . Paul Morel's joyful declaration "I am the man of the house now" (p. 102) to his dream of living in a cottage with his mother have the ingredients of the Oedipus drama. However, Lawrence did not write a novel to illustrate this theory. It is actually a novel that comes closest to real experiences. DH Lawrence is said to have learned of this theory from Frieda Weekley, who was his lifelong companion, right up to the stages of completing Sons and Lovers. The extent to which personal relationships in the novel conform to If...... middle of paper ...... answer to her problems, he is rather just a substitute for helping Connie find in order to find satisfaction in her life.Second, once Connie becomes tired of Mellors' personality, she will find herself just as unsatisfied as when she became bored with Clifford. There was no change in Clifford that caused Connie's change in attitude. She didn't immediately like his helplessness, but she grew tired of his personality that she knew too well. Something about Connie drove her away from Clifford, she was the one who caused her own discontent, Clifford was only the man she was with when she became resentful of his position. Connie will know Mellors as well as she knew Clifford. She uprooted herself from the tragic turning points that she attributed to herself in her life and placed herself among new “small hopes” and “small habitats ».."