Relationship between Paul and Miriam in the novel Sons & Lovers

Relationship between Paul and Miriam in the novel Sons & Lovers

While in D. H. Lawrence’s novel Sons and Lovers the struggling relationship revolves around Paul Morel and his mother Mrs. Morel, in Women in Love the challenging relationship revolves around the four main characters Ursula, Gudrun, Rupert and Gerald. Through the writing in both of these novels it becomes possible for an audience of readers to make an overall conclusion in how unsatisfied and subconsciously angered these differing characters are in their lives. While each of the relationships differ to a certain extent, nevertheless both of these works exhibit similar yet varying notions about individuals agonizing struggles between inferiority, concealed anger and the incompetence to be self-fulfilled.

In the novel Sons and Lovers Gertrude Morel is surrounded by men in her life yet the one who should mean the most to her is the least fulfilling. In turn this causes Mrs. Morel to turn to her eldest sons in hope of finding self-fulfillment. It is after William’s death, that Mrs. Morel leans toward Paul for the support and love that she fails to receive from her husband. The relationship between Paul Morel and his mother immediately begins to provoke feelings of jealousy and the underlying destructive relationships that exist between men and women. While Mrs. Morel forcefully leans toward Paul for love she inadvertently causes resentment from him as well. On behalf of Mrs. Morel, it is her incompetence to let Paul experience life and find a love of his own that causes Paul great destruction in his life.

In contrast, in Lawrence’s Women in Love the troubling relationships begin to form between Ursula and Rupert, Gudrun and Gerald, as well as between the two sisters and the men themselves. In the beginning of the novel Ursula and Gudrun are conversing and contemplating the idea of love and the nature of marriage. While both of the Brangwen sisters are bit naïve toward the idea of love and the emotions that go along with it, they illustrate both positive and negative feelings toward their desires to experience it. However, it is through their experiences that the audience of readers can identify their ultra-sensitive emotions revolving around positions of inferiority and struggles to achieve self-fulfillment.......................................................................................................................

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