Sons and Lovers as an Autobiographical Novel

Novel gained immense popularity during the 20th cytosine. In the narrative of English falsehood D. H. Lawrences Sons and Lovers is a typical 20th century novel. The 20th century novels bear the per watchwordaistics of genuinelyism, ro pieceticism, modernism, impressionism, expressionism etc. It was a time of intricate world psychology. A contiguous overflow of a thought, which is happening in benevolent psychology decease the constitution of the novel of the time. After the alonechery and destruction of the First and the Second World Wars a great variety in compassionate psychology took place.Prominent mental writers manage- Sigmund Freud, Jung and Lucka came forward with their stimulating psychoanalytical theory. Freuds theory of Oedipus confused and Lackas theory of boors career or self-development greatly influenced the Novelists of The 20th century. Sons and reverers by D. H. Lawrence is overly a mental novel where Lawrence as a psychoanalyst brings into fo cus the subtle and intricate happening in the minds of his characters, like Gertrude Morel , capital of Minnesota Morel , Miriam and others.Love PoemSons and Lovers deal with the psychology of the characters. Lawrence examines human bread and butter minutely and represents the complexity of human mind in his novel, Sons and Lovers. He brings out the deepest and subtle psychological medical prognosis of his characters speci entirely ify of Gertrud Morel and capital of Minnesota Morel. According to the psychologists theory, there are three levels of human thought conscious, unconscious and unconscious. Most of the thoughts lie dominant in subconscious and unconscious level. Sometimes it sources out into surface. Oedipus complex is one of such instinct.A psychological novelist like Lawrence externalizes the hidden and inner recondite thoughts of subconscious and unconscious mind. The theme of Oedipus complex is a dominant theme of Lawrences Sons and Lovers. Gertrude morel is a m aam of delicate and refined taste and she married a miner named Walter Morel. though it was a love marriage, within a few months of their marriage she discovered him as a stranger, a gambler, drunkard and an agitated per password. Besides the pauperism of Morels family disillusioned her. In spite of remaining as his wife, she lost all the interests for him.Morels rude and aggressive behavior with her and their children made her burdened with life with him. But nevertheless she remains with him because she had lovely children as- Annie and William. All her love and heart was transferred to her children specially to her eldest son William who also loves his give very much. When William came into due date he managed to earn for family and it made her happy exactly gradually Mr. Morel becomes an outsider of the family. Because of the crude and vulgarity of his manner his children William and Annie also began to despise him. Mrs.Morels uttermost(prenominal) love for her son Will iam made the bewilder jealous. In a order of conflict amidst husband and wife, both of them felt dreary and lonely. So all the love and marrow of a disappointed soul like Gertrud Morel find place in her lovely children especially in the sons- stolon in William hence in capital of Minnesota. The sons gave hope and spirit in Mrs. Morels life. Her heart filled with love and affection first for William then for capital of Minnesota, her blurb son. Lawrence in a letter to his friend Edward Garnett said about the telling between mother and son But as her sons grew up, she settles them as lovers. This is the large-hearted of love Sigmund Freud mentions as Oedipus complex. According to the theory, if the marriage between the mother and father is not happy and loving, the parents become interested in love for the child of opposite sex. The child functions as the substitute of husband or wife. Lawrence as a psychologist brings out the innermost psychology of his characters, Mrs. Gert rud Morel and her son capital of Minnesota Morel. Mrs. Morel prevented her sons reservation love with other adult female except her. She prevented William from getting intimate with the itinerant girl Lily.After the death of William she was slowly transforming her possessive feelings to Paul. Lawrence showed them wandering along the pathway of Nottingham with joy and excitement just like two lovers. She is a victim of an unhappy marriage. Her failure in life with Morel paved the way of Oedipus complex in her life. She gets attracted to her sons manhood. Nothing except Paul is valuable in her life. Paul also knew her passion for him. He loved his mother from his very childishness and could not break her heart. So he remained passive with any kind with other women like Miriam and Clara.Miriam loved him intensely. He also had love for her but an unknown hand prevented him from the fulfillment of their relationship. He thought that he is only for his mother. His mother also knows that her only means of life on commonwealth is Paul. What is the horrible consequence of an unhappy marriage, she knows it well. Thats why she says William, Nothing is as bad as marriage that is a hopeless failure. The relation between Paul and Miriam is a kind of spiritual love, even nonentity but his Oedipus feeling prevented him from weding her. Both Mrs.Morel and Miriam desired Pauls love and affection and it eats up the self of Paul. Mrs. Morel knew that Miriam is not like an ordinary muliebrity who can leave her the share she desires in Paul. So she felt repulsively worried about Paul. She could not bear it. She could let another woman take over Paul but not Miriam. The tormented soul of Mrs. Morel says shed leave me no room, not a bit of room. Then she piteously utters And Ive never- You know Paul- Ive never had a husband- not really. Paul helplessly comes forward to console his mother by asserting that he did not love Miriam.He strokes his mothers hair and placed his let the cat out of the bag on her throat. Before parting for the night Mrs. Morel kissed him a long earnest kiss. Thus forcible intimacy between mother and son become more explicit in the novel. Paul fells disturbed with Miriam as he thinks her foe between him and his mother. Nothing should disturb their relationship. Paul was aware of his helplessness. He honestly admits that he could only give Miriam his friendship- nothing more. Pauls passion for his mother is also seen when in a railways carriage he noticed that his mothers body looks frail, he thought that his mother is slipping away from him.Again in climbing the Cathedral hill, when she was out of schnorchel and had to take rest Paul regrets that his mother is aging. He frankly says his mother Why cant a man have a young mother? What is she old for? He regrets for not being her eldest son to find her younger. After Annies marriage, Paul realise his mothers loneliness. So, he asserts to Mrs. Morel that he would never marry and leave her alone. Another woman Clara came in Pauls life. She fire the long repressed and over-refined sexual instinct of Paul who is a man of twenty-three. But yet sex remained complicated in him.Claras physical attraction also failed to bring Paul out of his psychological complexity. He thinks that only an over strong virginity in him and Miriam prevented them from physical contact. Paul realizes that the deepest of his love belongs to his mother. The clear sexual over tone of their relationship is seen during their excursion to capital of Nebraska where Paul behaves almost like a lover when he tells his mother, You impede I am a fellow taking his girl for an outing. Mrs. Morel also accepts this sexual aspect in a pleasant mood. Mrs. Morel disapproved not only Miriam but also Clara saying hat he had not yet met the right woman. Paul could understand his mothers passion for him as well as his weakness for her. So he felt that he would not meet that right woman during h er lifetime. Even Clara too realized that Paul cannot come out of himself, so she leaves him and returned to Baxter. Mrs. Morels pangs and miseries of life and Pauls emotional crisis ended with the tragic death of Mrs. Morel. Being unable to carry the psychological torture any more, Paul fed her a heavy dose of morphia with her night milk and next daybreak at about twelve eternal rest and peace came to the pain soul.Paul knelt down by her death-bed and put his face to hers and his arms round her and whisper mournfully, My love, my love- oh, my love. And after the death of his mother he often moved aimlessly from one place to another, drinking, knocking about with men he knew. The real agony was that he had nowhere to go, nothing to do, nothing to say and was nothing himself. According to Luckas theory there are three stages of self-development unreal stage, mirror stage and symbolic stage. In the imaginary stage a child often birth thinks its mother as self. It finds itself in it mother.In the mirror stage he starts to think it differently. In the symbolic stage a child gets the name of his father. In Sons and Lovers Paul first identifies himself with his mother. He then finds his own self and then is identified with his father. But as he found his father, Walter Morel, unattractive and complex he again seeks place in his mother. So he could not found his own self-identity and could not come out of his mother. Lawrence employed the stream of consciousness technique which means a continuous overflow of a thought what is happening in human psychology.It saves his plot from the bondage of time and chronology. As a modern writer, Lawrence writes from the inhering point of view in order to share his own own(prenominal) experience with the readers. He tactfully delineates the psychology of the perturbed souls of Gertrude Morel and her son Paul Morel. How psychological complexity destroys a man or woman is seen in the character of Mrs. Morel. As a frustrated w ife she failed to enjoy properly the life of a woman and goes through a great complexity and psychological breakdown. She took shelter in a loving male person to produce good of an unhappy young lady.The man also loves her deeply as she expect yet she could not satisfy her mind completely because the loving male person is none but her own loving son to whom all sexual aspects are forbidden for her as his mother. Obsessed with the smorgasbord emotional and passionate feelings her mind is completely shattered down. Side by side as a victim of her passionate love her son Paul also lost himself in her and goes through the same psychological complexity. Thus the emotional and sensual crisis of human psychology dominates the plot of Lawrence novel Sons and Lovers. So it is a great psychological novel in the report of English literature.