The theme of interest split between father and mother is constructively portrayed. Divided into two parts, Sons and Lovers presents to us in the first part of the book a vivid illustration of family life of the Morels, their working class condition, childhood growth, games, and problems and festivities, the little amount of money they make and the debts they owe. Sons and Lovers is primarily a study of human relationships. After the death of his mother Gertrude, Paul goes in to a dramatic psychological transformation. Trembled between his unconscious desire for his mother and attraction to his girlfriend Paul finally ended up in relationship failure.

Paul cannot expand towards the universe in normal activity and form an independent sex interest because for him his mother has become the universe she stands between him and life and the other woman.

Also Gertrude’s jealousy towards Paul’s girlfriends causes interpersonal unconscious conflicts in Paul. Paul’s conflict between his love for his mother and his need to grow up and have sexual experience are central to the novel. His mother Gertrude who is bitterly unhappy with her married life devotes all her love and ambition to Paul. Paul witnesses family violence and his mother’s unhappy marriage to an uneducated alcoholic coalminer. The novel depicts the lower class in English coal-mining town in Nottinghamshire. Sons and Lovers tell the story of the Morel family, and in particular, of Paul Morel. Sons and Lovers, which projects the young Lawrence persona’s struggle between life and death, partly accounts for a deepening sensitivity to life and death in modern society in Lawrence’s subsequent works. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers (is) the autobiographical novel that tells so much about the first twenty-five years of his life, about his family and friends and society in which he grew up. In this novel Lawrence reexamined his childhood, his relationship with his mother, and her psychological effect on his sexuality. However the setting, characters, plot, theme, and tone of the book are changed from their factual model into a fictitious model. His famous novel Sons and Lovers is considered as more of a biographical fiction. Lawrence‟s works are therefore the accumulation of repressed memories Lawrence is providing a rich source of material for examination of the respective importance in personality development of Oedipal conflict and the pre-Oedipal establishment of a sense of self. Lawrence has been praised for his stories that explore human nature through frank discussions of sex, psychology, and religion. The work and life of D. Lawrence is one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses.

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