D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers: A Psychological Study
Abstract
Literature is often used deliberately to explore an experience that is not fully understood in real life. Sons and Lovers is one of the most celebrated English novels of the twentieth century. It is highly autobiographical. It is the first startling masterpiece in the entire range of English fiction which treats predominantly of what Freud termed the Oedipus complex. It is profoundly autobiographical novel and presents with deep insight the relationship between son and mother. Lawrence’s account of the miners is graphically and vividly presented in this novel. It is an authentic and intimate presentation of working-class life. Lawrence’s style is sensitive, prosperous and significant. It deals with sex without being sexy. The battle of the sexes is the theme of the novel Sons and Lovers, and this theme finds a free and frank treatment in the novel. The novel is largely a circumstantial record of the author’s own early life and environment and indicates the source of the emotional fixation between himself and his mother which was subsequently to make him a man divided against himself and unable to adjust himself in a fully integrated love experience. It is a realistic novel developing the significant psychological themes.
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