“One thing I couldn't understand while reading this book is the relationship between Miriam and Paul. I can see the big picture:Mrs. Morel offers Paul a sense of stability, Miriam fullfills his emotional needs and Clara his sexual ones. Even though, as a character, Miriam seemed very unnatural and her most of her reactions made me think: "no way a real person would act like this, given the circumstances so far!". Could someone please explain why is the relationship between these two so tense and why can't they find happyness toghether?”
“I have read this novel and enjoyed reading every chapter.It is really interesting.The plot is well organized.I really liked everything in the novel like the family relationships between the father and the mother which has a great effect on the children; especially the characterization of paul, and the great relationship between him and his mother,he couldn't make any other relationship with another woman.And also his end that he was alone depressed after the death of his mother.The only thing i can say is that i love this novel so much.”
“I've always loved D.H. Lawrence's other works, but had never read this until my book club picked it to read. I did not like it as much as his other works, and thought it could have been a couple of hundred pages shorter to get to the point, which I believe is that if a son feels he is a substitute for the father's love, which the mother either does not have or does not want, he has huge issues with growing into his own sexuality, learning to trust women (after all, his own mother manipulated him into replacing his father in her life) and dealing with healthy, loving relationships. I THINK that was the point. I really did not "get" a lot of this book.”
“My favorite DH Lawrence book. The tension between Miriam and Paul kept me reading even when I was too tired to read. ”
“Lawrence....!Like Paul Morel, at the end of Sons and Lovers who walks towards the lights of the city, he walks towards the unknown, Ursula “sees the vision of the rainbow, at the end of the book, sees it as a sign of ‘the earth’s new architecture, the old, brittle corruption of houses and factories swept away, the world built up In a living fabric of Truth, fitting to the over-arching heaven’”
“I jus cudn make out wat the author wanted to prove...........................weird”
“Most people shy away from this book by just seeing its title. And the little insights given at the back of the discourage them further. I wish everyone reads this book. The way emotions are expressed in beautiful words is indeed awe inspiring. I still cannot believe how lawrence came up with such topics and wrote with great fervour and with great ease.”
“It's not always the case that the Oedipus complex 'shifts in a healthy way' in India, or anywhere, if ever it does. This syndrome is itself an unnatural love for one's mother; it is the cause of so many further personality disorders, so how can it be healthy?In India, many a time the mother chooses the son's bride and yet sees her (a woman she selected to join the family based on various factors) as a threat to her position and her son's love for her. It is difficult for the son to move on and become the head of his own house due to the hierarchical joint family system, and Indian sons remain frozen at a certain emotional age.”
“Its now new with D.H Lawrence, people always miunderstood him. The text Sons and Lover shows the love towards his mother however the expression is not sexuel desire, its a spiritual which is very difficult to understant... yet true. ”
