RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MR. MOREL AND MRS. MOREL/GERTRUDE MOREL AND WALTER MOREL

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MR. MOREL AND MRS. MOREL/GERTRUDE MOREL AND WALTER MOREL

When Lawrence first introduces Mrs. Morel, she seems to be suffering from the despair and repression of a discontented wife in poor conditions. For her, the short happy days of married life have faded into household drudgery and weariness with life: “She was sick of it, the struggle with poverty and ugliness and meanness.” Mrs. Morel comes from a middle class family and is well-educated herself whereas her husband is an uneducated miner; this difference in family background is enough to make her feel life with the miner unbearable. What is more, pride in her background also acts as a stiff barrier between her and the community: “The women, her neighbors, were rather foreign to her and Morel’s mother and sisters were apt to sneer at her ladylike ways”.

The most important reason for Mrs. Morel’s discontent is that his husband does not live up to her ideal of manhood. From her father, an engineer who is well-educated and stern-minded, she formed her ideal of manhood. Yet her union with Morel is founded on sexual fascination, and the husband is below her both economically and intelligently: Morel is satisfied with the ordinary life and never dreams of living a better life; he is barely literate and does not care about reading books; he prefers the pub to the chapel. They have nothing in common in education, religion, or economic motivation, thus they cannot exchange feelings effectively. All these make her feel sorry for herself, she is disillusioned with her husband and then despises him. A breach between the couple is inevitable, but Mrs. Morel is still tied to her husband, because she has to depend on him and his salary to support the family. Put into this dilemma—unbearable relationship with and dependence on her husband, she has her own way out, that is, through the moral vitality of the chapel and the feminist emancipation of the Women’s Guild, but these are only consolatory. Her inner sufferings and discontent cannot be mitigated, in this sense, Mrs. Morel’s married life is marked with an absence of fulfillment.............

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