Sons and Lovers: Theme: Short Note: Append Yourself Note: Modern Novel: Lawrence:

“My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh…”

Writes D.H. Lawrence at one place. This remark, though cryptic, yet, displays the belief of this great novelist in the earthly matters, the worldly pleasures, and the denial of spiritual causes in the life. Lawrence is a believer in the need of the blood running in human body, rather than the spirit residing in the flesh. His novels often argue of these. None of his novels deals with things different from these. ‘Sexual pleasure’ of the ‘experiences of sexual activity’ is what he goes to describe in his works. ‘Lady Chatterly’s Lover’ is a novel that deals openly with the experiences of sex and fleshly desires.

Coming to the novel, ‘Sons and Lovers’, it deals with the psychological growth of children into adult man. Sigmund Freud seems lingering throughout the novel to some of the modern critics; however, there is no certain prove to illustrate the subject except one place where the narrator speaks:

“On the whole he stuck to her as if he were her man.”

Lawrence fuses, moreover, his own experiences in the novel and covers it with the artistic decoration to make it look a creation. No reader can deny who has read his biography or has little knowledge about his life. Lawrence put his own love affair with his long time girl Chambers as the affair between Paul and Miriam. This novel has, sure, the autobiographic elements. Since the childhood to the elderly woman Clara, this novel deals with the life of Lawrence.

Further theme in the novel can be interpreted as the mother and son relationship and manifold of it. Lawrence is the first novelist who raises his voice about the matters, which were to that time taken as the things to be dealt with behind the curtains. The relationship between Paul and Gertrude is the central theme of the novel, it seems to most of the readers and the scholars and the critics. The children’s affection with the mother and their hatred for the father are the crucial ideas that this novel takes up. A mother depends upon her sons for the emotional support that she does not get from her husband.