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“Bildungsroman, a form of fiction which allows the novelist to recreate through the maturing of his protagonist some of his own remembered intensity of experience” (Nivin, Alastair; pg. 34) D.H. Lawrence re-created his own life experience through the writing of Son’s and Lovers, an intensely realistic novel set in a small English mining town, much akin to the town in which he was raised. The son of a miner, Lawrence grew up with a father much like the character of Mr. Morel in Son’s and Lovers. Morel (as the father is called) is an ill tempered, uneducated, and rather crude man. A man with little ability to express his feelings to his wife and family, who love him dearly despite the fact that he was seldom cordial to any of them. “Lydia (Lawrence’s mother) was high-minded and pious. She had been a schoolteacher and had written poetry. She hated dirt and drink and poverty.” (Segar, Keith; pg.11) Lydia met her husband Arthur at a family function and they married only a year later. “It was an attraction of opposites which could not last. Arthur was irresponsible and poor.” (pg.11) While the two loved each other dearly, their differences cause
In the novel the Mother and Father also met at a dance, where Mr. 9) and the poor dwellings of the towns miners. It is not completely clear to me the extent of Lawrence’s attachment to his mother. Paul continually deals with the reality that his mother will always disapprove of any relationship with any other woman, causing Paul to throw away all chances of happiness outside of home. He was never really intolerable, and if, instead of wanting the impossible of him, we had tried to interest ourselves in the things for which he really cared, we should have been spared many unhappy and sordid scenes. In the words of Lawrence’s sister Ada: “As we grow older we shut him more and more out of our lives, and instinctively turned to mother, and he, realizing this, became more and more distasteful on his habits. ) The fathers ill-temper disgusted the children of Lawrence’s family, including his mother, just like the Morels were disgusted by their fathers drunkenly behavior; thus causing both families to turn away from their father. 36) The Bottoms as described by Lawrence in the novel Sons and Lovers, was, I’m sure much alike his home town, which consisted mainly of “ugly mid- Victorian shops” (Segar, Keith; pg. Thus he argues her views on political questions, lacking opinions of his own. The town did have a tram that “ran from Nottingham to Ripley” (pg.
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