Concetti Chiave
- D. H. Lawrence was born in 1885 in Eastwood to a miner father and a schoolteacher mother, who prioritized his education to prevent him from following his father's path.
- After working as a clerk, Lawrence qualified as a teacher and became the emotional focus of his mother after his brother's death, a relationship explored in "Sons and Lovers".
- Lawrence's travels after World War I included Italy, Australia, Switzerland, and Mexico, with his life ending in France in 1930 due to tuberculosis.
- He critiqued industrial civilization and believed that only relationships based on sensual passion could save humanity from self-destruction.
- Lawrence opposed women's emancipation, viewing them primarily as instruments for men's happiness, which is reflected in his writings and views.
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Early life and education
D. H. Lawrence was born in 1885 in Eastwood. His father was a sinner and his mother was a woman of higher class who had been a schoolteacher. Lawrence’s mother spent all her life fighing to have her children recived a proper education and she want to prevent David from following his father into the miners. When he was 16 he started to work as a clerk in a factory, while when he was 23 he was qualificated as a teacher at Nottingham University College.
Family and personal struggles
When his brither was died becouse of T. B. He became the center of his mother’s emotional life and the story about their love is told in the autobiographical novel “Sons and Lovers”. In 1910 his mootrher was died. Later he met and fell in love with a german women and during the war year her nationality was criticised by public opinion and Lawrence was sespected of being a spy. After the War he started travelling: he was in Italy, Australia, Switzeland and Mexico. He died of T. B. in South France in 1930.
• Sons and Lovers
• The Rainbow
• Women in love
• Lady Chatterley’s lover
• The White Peacock
Views on industrial civilization
Lawrence was against the mechanical and the artificial aspects of the industrial civilisationand he made penetrating analyssis of the relationship between men and women . he consider men as a mixure of culture and biology, of natural impulses and instinct. For the poet of all natural impulses the sexual one is the strongest so only a relationship between men and women based on sensual possions and sexuality can save humanity from self-destruction.
Lawrence was against the emancipation of women (in Ingland in 1928=English women can vote). In fact he considered women as a instrument for mankind’s happiness.
Plot of Sons and Lovers
The story speak about the Morel family, in particular way the relationship between Paul Morel, who is considered as the main character, and his mother. This strong relationship is very dangerouse for Paul in fact he is unable to sustain a fulfilling relathinship with any women. In fact he rejects his first girlfriend Miriam, with whom he had a phycological love, and he has an affair with Clara, a married women with whom he had a physical love. [Clara is the perfect of modern women: infact he supported the women rights.] After his mother’s death, Paul is torn between the wish to rejoin his mother in death or go on living. In the end he decided to go on living.
Domande da interrogazione
- ¿Cuál fue la influencia de la madre de D. H. Lawrence en su vida y obra?
- ¿Cómo influyó la Primera Guerra Mundial en la vida personal de D. H. Lawrence?
- ¿Cuál es la visión de D. H. Lawrence sobre la civilización industrial y las relaciones humanas?
- ¿Cómo se refleja la relación de Paul Morel con las mujeres en "Sons and Lovers"?
La madre de Lawrence fue una figura central en su vida, luchando para que sus hijos recibieran una buena educación y evitando que Lawrence siguiera los pasos de su padre como minero. Su relación con ella inspiró su novela autobiográfica "Sons and Lovers".
Durante la guerra, Lawrence enfrentó críticas debido a la nacionalidad alemana de su esposa y fue sospechado de ser espía. Esto afectó su vida personal y lo llevó a viajar después de la guerra.
Lawrence criticaba los aspectos mecánicos y artificiales de la civilización industrial. Creía que las relaciones entre hombres y mujeres debían basarse en pasiones sensuales y sexualidad para evitar la autodestrucción de la humanidad.
La relación de Paul Morel con su madre es tan fuerte que le impide mantener relaciones satisfactorias con otras mujeres. Rechaza a su primera novia, Miriam, y tiene una relación física con Clara, pero al final, tras la muerte de su madre, decide seguir viviendo.
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