The Book Report - A Sample 劳伦斯生于一八八五年九月十一日，一九三零年三月二日死于肺痨，终年四十四岁，是世界文学史上重要得不能再重要的人物。最重要的作品有：《儿子和情人》，《虹》，《恋爱中的妇女》和《查太莱夫人的情人》。《儿子和情人》是劳伦斯的成名之作，小说写尽恋母情节。美国现代图书馆的二十世纪百部小说排名上，《儿子和情人》远远比劳伦斯其他入选小说靠前。劳伦斯是能于无声处听见惊雷的人。人最大的悲剧不在外部世界，不是地震，不是海啸，而在他的内心。劳伦斯临死前将自己的一生概括为：A savage enough pilgrimage（残酷的朝圣之旅）。或许就是这种苦难，这种对自己的心灵绝不放过的苛求，造就了文字的力量。 Sons and Lovers is a novel written by David Herbert Lawrence and it was first published in 1913 in London by Wyman & Sons. D. H. Lawrence was born at Eastwood, Notts, on September 11, 1885, the fourth child of a miner who had been employed at Brinsley Colliery since he was 7 years old. In 1911, his first novel The White Peacock was published. Sons and Lovers is divided into two parts and is composed of 15 chapters altogether. The story, set in England, can be interpreted as an autobiographical novel of Lawrence. The hero of the book, Paul Morel, is the second son of a miner's family. His mother, Mrs. Morel, is a daughter of a mid-class family. Because of the differences in family background and education, a shadow is soon cast upon the married life of Mrs. Morel. And this shadow is darkened by Mr. Morel's laziness and alcoholism. By misfortune or bad luck, Mr. Morel has an accident and becomes a cripple, which changes him into a man of bad temper. As a result, the couple shares less and less the things in common and is driven farther and farther apart from each other. Little by little, Mrs. Morel transports her attention and love to her children, especially her two sons, William and Paul. She encourages them to leave the small mining region for a big city to find opportunities for a better life. After the death of her first son, William, because of hard work and pneumonia(肺炎), Mrs. Morel's divided attention and love is poured completely upon Paul. The mother's abnormal love robs Paul of his normal love for his girl friend. Sons and Lovers has always been claimed since its publication to be another version of Oedipus complex*. But D. H. Lawrence is in no sense an imitator. Sons and Lovers is truly an autobiographical novel. It describes an ordinary life of a coal miner's family. The abnormal love from the mother deprives Paul of his independent personality and mental health. It is perhaps because of this true picture of life that the novel has won Lawrence everlasting reputation. Oedipus complex: (psych) love of an infant for the parent of the opposite sex, with jealousy of the other parent. The term originated from a Greek myth in which King Oedipus killed his father and married his mother.（心理学上）（儿子对母亲的）恋母情结（及对父亲的嫉妒）；（女儿对父亲的）恋父情结（及对母亲的嫉妒） 本文来源：https://www.wddqw.com/doc/d0503795bb68a98270fefa49.html