Category: Sons and Lovers

‘Sons and Lovers’ is one of the major novels of David Herbert Lawrence, published in 1913, before the beginning of the First World War. In the novel ‘Sons and Lovers’, Lawrence portrays different types of interpersonal human relationships. Because Lawrence has a deep understanding of human life and has too much experience of the world. Lawrence elaborated on the nature of human relationships in three ways- ‘relationships between man and woman, between man and man, and between man and nature or the universe.’ These three types of relationships depends on ‘communion of blood and truthfulness.’

‘Sons and Lovers’ is basically a story of human relationships. Different relations have mentioned and discussed in the novel in different perspectives. The novel is centred on the relationships of a single and a mother and the subjugate relationship of the son. In this novel, we have three leading female characters. First, Mrs. Morel, she is the mother of Paul, then Miriam, Paul’s first love, and Clara Davis, a woman whom Paul ultimately falls in sexual relationship.

According to the critic Dorothy Van Ghent, the structure of the novel is controlled by a notion. ‘The notion of organic disorder in the relationship between men and women’ – the polarization that is seen first in the dissatisfaction of the parents and then in the mother tried replace her husband with her son, and ultimately failed in the son’s struggle to establish natural masculinity.

Through the analysis of the full text, we can say that the relationship between men and women in the novel is so disturbing. There is no harmony or cooperation between them. There are always conflicts of thoughts between them and they cannot understand each other. First of all, the Morel’s are suitable for this situation. Walter Morel is a coal miner who used to fight and quarrel with his wife Gertrude Morel. She is a sensible, educated and proud middle class woman, while Morel belongs to the working class. He tried to make Mr. Morel a sensible gentleman, but that became a matter of dispute. Mrs. Morel likes discussing religion and philosophy. Walter listens to her obediently, but he never participates in any such discussion. He is sensuous by rigid Puritanism, which frustrated her. They quarrel often and he beats her. Mrs. Morel began to hate her husband. Mr. Morel became the object of the family. The children becomes hostile towards their father, and this hostility is flamed by Mrs. Morel. Mr. Morel was treated as ‘an outsider’ by his wife and children. There was a ‘fearful bloody battle’ between them, which lasted until the death of Mrs. Morel.

‘There began a battle between the husband and wife – a fearful bloody battle that ended only with the death of one. She fought to make him fulfill his obligations. But he was too different from her – his nature was purely sensuous and she strove to make him moral, religious. She tried to force him to face things. He could not endure it – it drove him out of his mind.’

A close reading of the novel leaves no doubt that Mrs. Morel is more responsible for the destruction of their marriage than Walter Morel because of her rigid Puritanism and philosophical thinking.

The man-man relationship is very weird and peculiar to understand. The distinguishing point of Mr. Morel’s relationship with his children is the lack of relationship. The children avoid their father when possible. In their childhood, he is usually either working or drunk, and when they are adults, they avoid him. Mrs. Morel’s attitude of disappointment and even hatred toward her husband strongly affects the children’s feelings toward their father. Mr. Morel seems to live as an outsider in his own home, in stark contrast to Mrs. Morel’s parental relationship with the children.

The man-woman relationship was the dominant theme of Lawrence’s major novels particularly the ‘Sons and Lovers’. Among the human relationships mother and son relationship is the most important for humanity. Like this, Mrs. Morel turns to her children for her emotional satisfaction. Her eldest son, William is a talented boy and the mother looks to him as a young man who will make ‘the world glow again for her.’ Mrs. Morel wants him to rise in life and move toward the middle class. William gets a job in a London firm. William’s success is quite in tune with her plans. She hopes that the dreams that had remained unfulfilled in her marriage with Morel will now be fulfilled through William. William, too, is not only deeply attached to his mother, but is also under the powerful influence of her mind and thought. In London, William falls in love with a girl, ‘Lily’ and wants to marry her. But, Mrs. Morel is jealous of her and does not want that William should marry her. William was deeply attached to his mother, therefore, he torn with conflict between his love for his mother and his passion for his beloved. This inner conflict becomes unbearable for him. He falls ill and dies in arms of his mother. Before the death of William Mrs. Morel remarked ‘I ashamed of you William! Why don’t you be more manly. To do nothing but find fault with the girl, and then pretend you’re engaged to her’.

The man-man relationships of Paul and William is weird too. Paul had a jealousy on William, his older brother, whom his mother had a more passionate relationship with. After his death when Mrs Morel could not pull herself out of her grief and barely spoke to Paul, he became ill and lost the will to live until she woke from her grief-stricken stupor. Paul was more of a companion to his mother, particularly after William’s departure to London and his eventual death; ‘Mrs Morel’s life now rooted itself in Paul’. She told him all her troubles and ‘he took it in as best he could’ as a child and a man.

At the death of William, Mrs. Morel pins her hopes on Paul and nurses her physically weak second son with great love and care that also maintains her own mental balance. She wants the fulfilment of her self through him. Paul too feels that his life and achievements have meaning only in relation to her. She has a strong spiritual hold on him. When he grows up, this spiritual bondage makes him unfit to establish healthy adult relationship with any woman. Paul comes close to Miriam, the love between them is idyll. But his mother not allowed a mature love between them because she regards Miriam to be one of those women who will want to ‘suck a man’s soul out.’ She fears that this relationship will leave no room for herself in the mind and soul of Paul. Mrs Moral depicts: ‘she’d leave me no room – not a bit of room.’

Paul deeply loves his mother so not wants to go against wishes of his mother. Thus the strong mother pull stands his way of giving himself completely in love to Miriam. On the other hand, Miriam’s attitude towards love and sex is typically Christian that may be regarded as Spiritual, but it is certainly neurotic, as her mother told to her that marriage is always dreadful. This awareness of physical passion makes them feel uneasy that becomes the reason of the failure of their relationship. Miriam thinks that if Paul’s lower desires (physical passion) are burnt away through Clara, she might then have him altogether for herself. Miriam brings Paul and Clara together and Paul goes all out for passion with Clara, a sensuous woman. Mrs. Morel is not hostile to her and rather glad to know it as she thinks that Clara will take his body and leave his soul to her. Their passion soon gives way to dissatisfaction and uncertainty. Now Clara feels that in the matter of sex her husband Baxter was preferable to Paul. Both of them realize that they will not stay together permanently. Clara realizes that Paul will never surrender his will to her. In the meantime, Mrs. Morel has cancer and her suffering makes Paul suffer terribly, which becomes unbearable for Paul and he gives her mother an overdose of morphine to relief off cancer. After her death, the world appears to be unreal for him. Clara cannot provide any comfort to him and now she wants to go back to her husband and it is Paul who re-unites them. Paul thinks of Miriam once again but she offers herself to him as a sacrifice as she had done before. But he does not want her sacrifice and again thinks of his mother.

Lawrence first showed how Paul is unwanted child and yet Mrs. Morel gave birth to him and their bond become so intense and when Paul make contact with Miriam, she depicts as a ‘jealous vampire figure clinging to Paul as her substitute husband’ Paul first made relationship with Miriam spiritually and came back to his mother. This shows the childlike attitude of Paul. In order to get eternal bliss and solitude, he remains with his mother after two breakups.

To conclude, it can be said that in the novel ‘Sons and Lovers’ we saw different types of relationships man- woman relationship in which there was always disturbance. No relationship has harmony and understanding. Throughout their marriage, Mrs. Morel attempts to offset her rapid disillusion with her husband by living through her sons. Father-child relationship in novel was also vulnerable. Paul and William have hatred towards his father and extreme love towards their mother. This leads to stoppage in the growth of both the character. Paul showed childlike attitude as unable to decide himself and took his life decision on his own. It can be concluded with the fact that the novel gives the scientific study of human motives.

Sons and Lovers a semi-autobiographical novel by DH Lawrence published in 1913 His first adult novel was a psychological study of the family and romantic relationships of an English working class.

D. H. Lawrence’s superb autobiographical novel paints a provocative portrait of an artist torn between affection for his mother and desire for two beautiful women. Set in the coal fields of Nottinghamshire during Lawrence’s teenage years, the story follows young Paul Morel growing up in a working-class English family. Gertrude Morel, Paul’s purest mother, focused all her love and care on Paul, nurturing her talent as a painter. When she thought that he might one day marry and leave her, the son swore that he would never leave her. Then Paul falls in love – not with one woman but with two – and ends up having to choose between them.

The story follows the coming of age of Paul Morel, Gertrude Morel’s second son, and her worker husband Walter Morel, who earns his living as a miner. As Miss Morel tries to find meaning in life and develop feelings through her relationship with Paul, Paul seeks to free himself from his mother by developing relationships with women. other. The novel was controversial when it was published due to its straightforward approach to sexuality and clear Oedipal accent. The novel was also heavily censored. Edward Garnett, a Duckworth reader, editor of Lawrence

Author Biography

David Herbert Lawrence (September 11, 1885 – March 2, 1930) was an English writer and poet. His collected works are, among other things, a profound reflection of the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization. Lawrence’s work explores issues such as sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity, and instinct.

His works:

• Sons and Lovers (1913)
• The Rainbow (1915);
• Women in Love (1920);
• Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious (1921);
• Fantasia of the Unconscious (1922);
• Studies in Classic American Literature (1923);
• St. Mawr (1925);
• and The Plumed Serpent (1926).
• Lawrence’s most controversial novel, Lady Chatterly’s Lover (1928), was accused of being pornographic, and its publishers were taken to court.

Early life-

Youth Born in Eastwood, England on September 11, 1885, David Herbert Lawrence struggled to fit into his working class and mining town. As a child, Lawrence was often ill and physically weak. His mother, from an educated middle-class family, encouraged a love of literature and the arts, and as a result, her son often did not get along with other boys interested in athletics and sports. Despite his excellent academic results, his lack of sociability made young Lawrence often depressed and melancholy. As an adult, Lawrence would say he felt his childhood was relationship with his alcoholic and uneducated father didn’t help his depression. Arthur John Lawrence started working in the coal mines at the age of 10 and lacked the knowledge to understand his son’s artistic expressions or literary ambitions. First Writing After graduating from high school in 1901, Lawrence began working as a factory clerk in Nottingham. Like Paul in Sons and Lovers, arguably Lawrence’s best autobiographical novel, Lawrence fell ill and had to take time off work to recover. While recovering, he spent a lot of time at the nearby Haggs Ranch, where he formed a strong friendship with the farmer’s daughter, Jessie Chambers. Lawrence and Jessie’s friendship was shaped by a shared love of lite dorature, and at Jessie’s request, Lawrence began to write creatively. He published his first short story in a local magazine in 1907. He then published other short stories and poems before publishing his first novel, The White Peacock, in 1911. A few years later, Lawrence showed Jessie a manuscript of Sons and Lovers. Apparently the inspiration for the character of Miriam in the book, Jessie offers her own angry advice on making amends after accusing Lawrence of turning their relationship into fiction.

Lawrence’s hectic and mobile existence – he and Freida constantly traveled – ended on March 2, 1930, in Vence, Southern France, when he finally succumbed to tuberculosis, an illness that plagued him for most of his life.

Characters-

Mrs. Gertrude Morel

The first protagonist of the novel. She becomes unhappy with her husband Walter and devotes herself to her children.Mrs. Morel was the wife of Mr. Morel and the mother of William, Paul, Annie and Arthur. She was born into a middle class family and married Mr. Morel after meeting him at a country ball. Mrs Morel was reserved and devout, but she was also an extremely practical and uncompromising woman. Although she disliked drinking and often lived an ascetic life, she was capable of passion and sensuality, which led her to marry Mr. Morel, who was immediately attracted to her. . Ms. Morel always strives to get out of poverty and is always proud and ready to stand up for her husband’s abuse. She’s never let down by his temper, even if it angers her – throughout their marriage, she tends to dominate and outdo him, for the benefit of her. his own. is really the strongest of the couple. Mrs. Morel loves her children very much and is really nice to them. Unfortunately, the power of her love for boys made her jealous and possessive and she inadvertently held them back as they tried to develop their own lives. they have such a strong bond with her that they feel guilty sharing their feelings with another woman. Miriam, Paul’s longtime girlfriend, often finds himself in competition with Mrs. Morel and he is under the influence of his mother. In general, Mrs. Morel’s life is difficult and unhappy, readers feel that she has not had the opportunity to develop her full potential. She was an intelligent, organized, and industrious woman, but her class and gender constraints meant Ms. Morel missed work and educational opportunities that generations of women had lost.

Paul morel

Paul is the main character in the novel, and we will follow his life from his childhood through his early twenties. He is sensitive, capricious, loves art (painter) and devotes himself to his mother. They are inseparable; he gave her everything, worked and painted to please her and took care of her when she died. Paul eventually had an unsuccessful romantic relationship with Miriam Leiver and Clara Dawes, always alternating between great love and hate for each of them. Her relationship with Miriam broke because she was too sacrificed and a virgin to consider him his own, while with Clara things didn’t go well as she never seemed to let go of her ex-husband. However, the main reason Paul broke up was the shadow of his mother; No woman will ever be able to match him in his eyes, and he will never be able to free himself from his possession.

Miriam Leiver

Miriam is a virginal and devout girl who lives on a farm near Morels, and she is Paul’s first love. However, it took years for their relationship to transcend Platonic and become romantic. She loved Paul deeply, but he never wanted to marry her and ‘belong to her’ in her words. On the contrary, he considers her more as a sacrificial and spiritual confidante than a romantic and sensual lover. Mrs. Morel, who felt threatened by Miriam’s wisdom, always reinforced his contempt for Miriam.

Clara Dawes

Clara is an elderly woman separated from her husband, Baxter Dawes. Unlike the intellectual Miriam, Clara seems to represent the body. Her sensuality appeals to Paul, as does her elusive and mysterious character. However, she loses that elusive character as their love affair continues, and Paul feels that she still ‘belongs’ to her husband.

Walter Morel

Morel, the head of the coal miners family, was once a humorous and lively man, but over time he grew into a ruthless and selfish alcoholic. His family, especially Ms. Morel, despised him and Paul frequently fantasized about his father’s death.

William Morel

Morel William, Mrs. Morel’s ‘knight’, was her favorite son. But when he moves out, she doesn’t agree with his new lifestyle and his new girlfriends, especially Lily. Her death plunged Ms. Morel into grief.

Baxter Dawes

Dawes, a handsome muscular man, is separated from his wife Clara Dawes because of his infidelity. He was angry with Paul for marrying Clara, but over time the two became friends. Annie morel Annie is Morel’s only daughter. She is a teacher who comes home early from school.

Arthur Morel

Arthur, Morel”s youngest son, was unusually handsome, but also immature. He enlisted in a hurry and it took a while to get out. He is married to Beatrice.

Louisa Lily Denys Western

Lily, William’s girlfriend, is a materialist and a mercenary. Her condescending behavior around Morels annoyed William, and she quickly forgot about him after his death.

David Herbert Lawrence was an important and controversial English writer of the 20th century. He wrote a lot of great works, one of his most prominent novel, Sons and Lovers, is considered by many critics as an autobiographical account of his youth that captures the class conciseness through Morel’s disharmonious family situation. The author develops the story by portraying class conflicts between a lot of characters, especially the different choices and expectations of the characters which will be the prime concern of this paper.

This novel can be analysed according to the theory of Marxism. Basically Marxism is a cultural and a philosophical movement mainly derived from the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Any cultural practice or theory that is based on an interpretation and understanding of the works of Marx can be called Marxism. As the novel deals with the dominant ideology which is, in any society, usually shaped by the material conditions and relations of production and mainly by the dominant class is also considered to be the theory of Marxism. According to the Marxism, the class in any society is not only determined by wealth like the lower class, the middle class and the upper class. According to Marxism, the identity of any social class is determined or derived from its relationship to the means of production and the relationship between different classes is also built on these relations of production.

Consequently, in any capitalist society we can witness the existence of the following classes.

This novel came to be considered as a graphic representation to the life of the working class in the English society during that time. The novel is divided into two main parts and through which Lawrence presents the life of a struggling family in the age of industrialism. The story of the novel narrates the life and struggle of the Morel family to overcome the financial, social, and personal difficulties that they faced through the course of their lives.

The story starts when Gertrude meets Walter Morel in a party. Gertrude fell in love with Walter and got married to him but soon she discovered the difficulties of living with the financial difficulties. She bears a strong class consciousness in her. Besides,Gertrude Morel an educated and rich girl who came from a class that is socially and financially superior to the class from which Walter came. Soon she realizes Walter is too different from her and the reality isn’t happy. In a word, the marriage of the Morels is ruined by the great class differences between them. ‘At last Mrs. Morel despised her husband. She turned to the child; she turned from the father. He had begun to neglect her; the novelty of his own home was gone.’

Gertrude’s class consciousness leads the conflict between her and her husband. When William is thirteen, Morel wishes to take William to ‘pit’ or mine, but Gertrude has already engaged him – the ‘Co-op.’ office’. Gertrude attacks Morel, ‘If your mother put you in the pit at twelve, it’s no reason why I should do the same with my lad.’ Lawrence’s characters illustrate the class contradictions at the heart of modern industrial society.

In the light of these difficulties the passion between the couple faded and Gertrude decided to shift her passion and attention to her sons instead of her husband beginning with her elderly son William. Toward the end of the Victorian era, even working-class mothers aimed at a higher standard of culture, achievement and social standing than that into which they were born. Mothers, like Gertrude, held their sons close to them, creating virtual images of themselves in their sons.

Mrs. Morel gave her attention and passion to William who left the house for a job in the city and soon achieved his financial and social independence from both the family and his mother. After living in the middle class for a while, William died as a result of a skin disease leaving his mother with a broken heart. But soon the mother shifted her attention to her other son Paul. Paul, in his turn, worked in a factory and experienced love with girls such as Miriam and Clara. Unable to escape from the emotional control of his mother, Paul left the two girls and returned to take care of his dying mother.

After the death of Mrs. Morel, Paul felt lost especially with his inability to return to Clara or resuming his interest in drawing. The novel ends with Paul who lost everything but decided not to give up to darkness. The first glimpse of Marxism can be found in the authentic relationship between the novel and the real life of the author. The life situations of the central character in ‘Sons and Lovers’ could be understood better using the Marxist concepts of class consciousness.

In ‘Sons and Lovers’ is depicted a society, which in the process of under going a change from the old productive relations into capitalist mode of production. The ‘casual’ analysis of the capitalist society tries to understand it coming into existence and the ways it operates where as the casual mode feels that in spite of the ills of such a society, nothing much can be done to change it.

Introduction

David Herbert Lawrence was an important and controversial English writer of the 20th century. He wrote a lot of great works, one of his most prominent novel, Sons and Lovers, is an autobiographical account of his youth that captures the Morel’s disharmonious family situation. The author develops the story by portraying the relationship between a lot of characters, especially the different choices and expectations of the characters which will be the prime concern of this paper.

Though much of the text is focused on the relationship of the protagonist, Paul Morel. There are two major relationships in this novel: the relationship which is between, Gertrude Morel and husband Walter Morel, whereas the other is the relationships between Mrs. Morel and her two sons. Mrs. Morel is the cord that binds the novel together and the catalyst for every major event in her son’s life. Her character bears closer investigation.

Mrs. Morel’s Gender Expectations

In the novel Sons and Lovers, Mr. and Mrs. Morel did love each other at the very beginning of their marriage, even later they may have some disputes, but they still stuck to each other. Besides, Gertrude Morel is a strong willed, middle class lady who has been shocked and disappointed by her marriage to a coal miner. Soon the glow of Mrs. Morel’s first love wore off. She began to regret her choice, eventually coming to despise her husband. Though Gertrude Morel marries Walter because of their differences but eventually she discovers that reality isn’t happy. The poor condition makes her feel very tired. At the beginning, Gertrude Morel thinks she will reform him but now she realizes Walter is too different from her. In a word, the marriage of the Morels is ruined by the great differences between them.

Mrs. Morel’s possessiveness to her sons

As the novel suggests, Mrs. Morel has four children: William, Annie, Paul, and Arthur. Though Mr. Morel is disappointed by her husband, she puts all of her faith in her three boys. As she wanted to make her mark on the world by being the mother of influential men. She seeks solace, and purpose in her children. Through this aspect, Mrs. Morel proved to be possessive towards all men in the family. She succeeded making her boys succeed, but the negative effects of strong possession also affect her sons.

Mrs. Morel’s possessiveness to William

William Morel, the oldest son, begins to contribute to the family finances at a young age. When he is able to find a job in London, his mother is overjoyed, expecting constant communication and increased financial support. Mrs. Morel is saddened as William slowly drifts away from her, spending his money instead on his fiancee Louisa. Mrs. Morel is chagrined at William’s choice of lover and deems Louisa unworthy of William.

‘My boy, remember you’re taking your life in your hands,- says Mrs. Morel.

So he suffers a split in his mind and body, and at last he suffers to die of pneumonia. Because of Mrs. Morel’s possession, she deprives her son’s right of love. Her son William can’t live because her mother controls his mind tightly. And somehow it’s believed that William couldn’t resolve the conflict he feels between marrying his girlfriend ‘Lily- and remaining devoted to his mother.

At the death of William, Mrs. Morel retreats into despair until she turns her attention to her second son, Paul.

Mrs. Morel’s possessiveness to Paul

After the death of William, Paul’s story occupies the rest of the novel. Mrs. Morel’s steady influence drives Paul at every turn. She provides Paul daily companionship, talking with him about his thoughts, feelings, and actions. When she sends him to work, she expects him to return not only with income but with detailed reports of every experience. She monitors his movements, waiting up for him each night and demanding explanations for every late homecoming.

Mrs. Morel is a particular factor in Paul’s love life. Paul takes up first with a neighbor named Miriam, but Mrs. Morel’s disapproval is one of several factors that leads to their relationship’s demise. In a convert with his mother, Paul complains that:

‘But why-why don’t I want to marry her or anybody? I feel sometimes as if I wronged my women, mother.-

It’s obvious that his intense attachment to his mother keeps him from properly loving any other woman. Later Paul is with Clara, but finds himself unable to commit fully to her either. Paul believes that while his mother is alive he will be unable to fully love another woman because of the claim his mother has on his love. This is not merely a mother – son relationship, it seems to be a relationship between lovers. This intimate relationship maybe a joy to the mother, but it is unwholesome to the son, as we can perceive in Paul’s subsequent development in his life. The abnormal love and expectations from mother deprives not only Paul from his independent personality and mental health but also William from his lover and drive him to death which is the ultimate reality of Mrs. Morel’s expectations towards her sons.

After an analysis of Sons and Lovers, it can be considered that Gertrude Morel, for her different choices and reasons – failed to ripen into a permanent bond of love with her husband, her passionate nature shifted and fixed on her sons as objects of a most intense passion. Indeed, Gertrude partially destroyed her sons talents and hopes. And therefore, the ultimate striking reality never matches with her ultimate expectations from the men in the Morel’s family.

Sons and Lovers is a 1913 novel by D.H. Lawrence.

Gertrude, a middle-class English woman, meets a miner in a country dance. This miner’s name is Morel. When he sees Walter Morelinbu dancing, he realizes that he is very handsome. They get to know each other better and get married a few months later. And this young woman takes the name of Mrs. Morel. Then Mrs. Morel becomes pregnant. During the first months of their marriage, they are very happy and their interest in each other grows. But later, Ms. Morel is unable to share all her thoughts with her husband and no longer finds him attractive. He understands that they have little in common. Then Morel realizes that he is not as rich as he thinks, that the house they live in is Morel’s mother. I don’t like mining life. Things like that keep her away from her husband. Months later, a boy named William was born. And he loves William very much. Mrs. Morel’s interest in her husband diminished after they had sons. One day, when William was a child, Mrs. Morel came to the salon and saw that Morel’s son had cut all his hair. After that, she and her husband parted ways. And he dedicates his whole life to the growth of his son.

Mrs. Morelin has a child named Annie. Then she became pregnant with her third child. One day he goes to the fair and sees that the fair is not interesting for William. He knows that Morel is drinking in a tent and will come home drunk in the evening. A few weeks later, Morel goes on vacation with Jerry Purdy. When he returns from vacation, Morel is very drunk. And Mrs. Morel and Morel are arguing. Mrs. Morel takes Moreli out of the house and calms herself down by looking at the flowers. When she returns, Morel brings Morel home, but does not talk to her. Mrs. Morel and Morelin have one more child. Mrs. Morel sees that Morel is upset and takes the children out of the house. He sits on a hill and names this child Paul. When he looks at this child, he realizes that it is a sin, because he did not want this child before. And so he thought the baby was sad. Paul is growing up. He becomes a serious and thoughtful child. Then Mrs. Morel’s third son, Arthur, was born. By this time, William had grown up to be a handsome boy. After a while, William gets a good job. Everyone there likes it. He gets a good job offer from London and he accepts it. William used to come home often and send money to his family. Later, she spends more time in the city and spends all her money on her fiancé. Her fiancé’s name is Louisa Lily Denys Western. William brings his fiancé home to meet his family. But he sees that she is superior to them and treats them like servants. And very disappointed. In time, William’s relationship with her fiancé deteriorated. However, it does not break the mark. Mrs. Morel then sees William’s mistreatment of her fiancé and is disappointed. Some time later, William developed pneumonia and died. Mrs. Morel is deeply saddened by her son’s death.

Paul grows up and becomes the owner of the position. He is very successful in his work. But after a while he got sick. Mrs. Morel is very sad for William and cannot forget him. During this time, Paul does not pay attention, he forgets her. When Paul has pneumonia, Mrs. Morel realizes that she is very indifferent to Paul. Mrs. Morelon does her best to get back to health, and Paul recovers. After that, Mrs. Morel puts all her hopes on Paul. After recovery, he goes to the farm owned by Paul Leivers. He has a relationship with Leivers’ daughter. But Ms. Morel doesn’t like it. Mrs. Morel is watching their relationship closely and is jealous of Paul’s time with Miriam. Miriam gets closer to Paul. She realizes she’s in love with him, but she doesn’t tell him. Miriam’s family goes on vacation, and Miriam goes with them. Paul spends most of his time with his mother. In the evenings he sees Miriam.

Paul wins an award at an exhibition in Nottingham. In this exhibition, Miriam and Paul meet Clara Dawes. Clara is married to Baxter, who works in the same factory as Paul. Then they leave. Paul did not like Baxter. He treated Paul badly from day one. Miriam’s relationship with Paul deteriorated. But they know they love each other. A few days later, Morel fell ill. Paul comes to his mother. Miriam wants to break up with Paul, but she sees him often because she is friends with her brother Edgar. Later, when she meets Clara, she thinks she is attractive, even though she doesn’t like him. Clara learns that she lives with her mother Radford and is not happy. He employs her in a factory. Miriam and Paul are engaged in the spring. But then they leave. Paul builds a relationship with Clara. Baxter learns this. They argue with Paul. Then the relationship improves. A few months later, Ms. Morel fell ill and was diagnosed with cancer. He stays in Sheffield to take care of his mother. Paul now gives his whole mind to his mother. The doctor says Morel can’t stand it anymore. Paul kills his mother with painkillers prescribed by a doctor. Morel cannot live in the house he shares with Mrs. Morel. And Paulila decides to live in Nottingham. Paul is cold to everyone after the death of his mother.

One day he meets Miriam in the church. Miriam tells him she wants to get married. But Paul does not accept. After the death of his mother, everything becomes meaningless for Paul.

My opinions

I did not like this book. Because everything in the story ends badly. My favorite books are happy ending books.

I think this book is about family issues in the Middle Ages. Here the mother loves her children very much. The book is about the love of sons. The life of the Morel family is unhappy, tense and anxious. Morles lives in a mining town in the village. Walter Morel is a miner and has two children, William and Ennie, with his wife, Gertrude, and they are expecting their third child. When Paul, the third child, was born, Ms. Morel didn’t really want a new baby. Her life is full of her husband’s temperament and caring for children. She hates staying home with her children ) when she goes out to have fun. After the birth of Arthur’s fourth child, the Morel family was completed.

Mrs. Morel passes on her husband’s love to her intelligent and active first son, William. She is the eyes of her mother, earns awards, works well in school and find a job easily. When William goes to London for work, Mrs. Morel is devastated. William comes home with his fiancee, a young lady who treats Morels like servants. William, who spent a lot of time at work and with his fiancee, died of pneumonia. After William’s death, Mrs. Morel turned her love and attention to Paul.

Always sensitive and sensitive, Paul gets a job at Thomas Jordan, who works in a surgical appliance factory and befriends Miriam Leivers. Mrs. Morel does not love Miriam because, in her opinion, Miriam takes all of Paul’s energy, desires and feelings without leaving anything for him. Miriam meets Clara Dawes, who is friends with Paul Leivers and divorces her husband Baxter Dawes. His mother believes differently than he thinks Paul is happy; Clara knows in her heart that she will annoy her son. Baxter has a fight between Dawes and Paul; The war made Paul very painful and a great dislike for Clara’s husband. Although both men hate each other very much, they feel connected to each other.

Ms. Morel is seriously ill due to a tumor. The doctor who treated him, Paula Dawes, said she was in the hospital with a fever. Paul is looking for Dawes in the hospital and the two men reconcile bit. When Paul told Clara that Dawes was ill, Clara unexpectedly revealed that her husband treated her with more respect and that Paul loved her more than ever. Clara returns to Dawes.

Meanwhile, Ms. Morel is getting weaker. Knowing that he is prolonging his death to live for Paul, Paul and Annie fear that he will live longer than he can emotionally. Paul and Annie can’t bear to see their beloved mother suffer as much as giving her an extra dose of morphine. Mrs. Morel is dying. Paul goes to Miriam. They are thinking of getting married, but Paul admits that he has no desire or intention to Marry her. Miriam decides to wait as long as she needs to. Paul returns home thinking about the relationship he shared with his mother. Even though he dies, his love still lives in him.