See, when Lawrence published Sons and Lovers in 1913, Freud's ideas were becoming a really big deal in Europe. Morel to lovers, you'll see that Lawrence was definitely drawing on Freud. But if you accept the Oedipus Complex as a thing, and then you pay attention to the amount of times Sons and Lovers compares Paul and Mrs. But the Oedipus Complex is the one about how little boys want to kill their fathers and sleep with their mothers, because their relationships with their moms are, like, their framework for understanding everything else in the world. We know, we know, Freud put a lot of ideas out there. Sons and Lovers tells the tale of a young man who hates his father and wants to possess his mother all for himself… Doesn't that sound familiar? You got it this novel is heavily influenced by Sigmund Freud's concept of the Oedipus Complex. So we're guessing this book was kind of cathartic for him.īut wait a second. And Lawrence always felt bad about his mother's wasted potential. Lawrence's mother was also the wife of a pretty lousy coal miner. The story centers on the admiration and love that Paul Morel has for his mother, Gertrude-a great woman who ruins her life by marrying a coal miner named Walter Morel, who turns out to be an abusive boozehound. The moral is: don't worry so much about naysayers, especially if you write a book whose themes may be a bit "before their time." Let's Talk About Sex, Babyĭespite being fictionalized, this book is semi-autobiographical.
But hey, a lot of people still read Sons and Lovers today. The only real talk the book created at the time of its publication arose from critics who called Lawrence obscene for talking openly about sex- gasp. The initial reception of the book was actually a bit ho-hum. So, we bet you're guessing that Sons and Lovers incited a lot of immediate standing ovations when it was published. That's saying a lot, because this is the same guy who wrote Women in Love, Lady Chatterley's Lover, and other masterworks. Published in 1913, Sons and Loversmade it all the way to 9th on the Modern Library's 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century list, narrowly beating out The Grapes of Wrath (take that, Steinbeck). First, it's all, "Welcome to the life story of William Morel." Then, bam: "Oh wait, make that the life of Paul Morel, the sensitive artist boy who has to take over the role of lead character when William dies unexpectedly." Okay, now that that's been established… This novel pulls a real bait-and-switch on us, folks. Sons and Lovers Introduction Are You Ready for This?
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