Toward Interdependent Relationship: Problematics of Class in D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers
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In Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, the problem of class constitutes a thematic subject more devastating than any other elements. Apart from the familial background that Lawrence's father was a coal miner, an economic problem initiates the first conflict between Walter Morel and Mrs. Morel at the outset of SL. Their outright dissension gets gradually appeased as William, their elder son, wins a well-paying job and starts to give them financial help, although each of them maintains his or her individuality intact way down to the last page of the novel. And the time when Mrs. Morel's possessive love for William is transmitted to Paul corresponds to the time period when William stops sending money and Paul begins to earn their living. It is remarkable that class conflict is intertwined with other polarized world views of body/mind, matter/spirit, or sensuality/spirituality. In a word, SL is about a process of Paul's disillusionment at the polarity and his galling struggle to attain a holistic world view. Thus, the Buddhist theory of dependent co-arising can better-illuminate the theme of the novel than dualistic dogmas like Hegelian dialectics. Eventually, the author goes toward not a contradictory but complementary view of the world, which is more conspicuously experimented in Women in Love and The Plumed Serpent than in any other later novels.
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In Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, the problem of class constitutes a thematic subject more devastating than any other elements. Apart from the familial background that Lawrence's father was a coal miner, an economic problem initiates the first conflict between Walter Morel and Mrs. Morel at the outset of SL. Their outright dissension gets gradually appeased as William, their elder son, wins a well-paying job and starts to give them financial help, although each of them maintains his or her individuality intact way down to the last page of the novel. And the time when Mrs. Morel's possessive love for William is transmitted to Paul corresponds to the time period when William stops sending money and Paul begins to earn their living. It is remarkable that class conflict is intertwined with other polarized world views of body/mind, matter/spirit, or sensuality/spirituality. In a word, SL is about a process of Paul's disillusionment at the polarity and his galling struggle to attain a holistic world view. Thus, the Buddhist theory of dependent co-arising can better-illuminate the theme of the novel than dualistic dogmas like Hegelian dialectics. Eventually, the author goes toward not a contradictory but complementary view of the world, which is more conspicuously experimented in Women in Love and The Plumed Serpent than in any other later novels.
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