... son move on. According to Sullo "with Miriam, Paul's primary contact was spiritual and cerebral, Gertrude wanted to be the only one in her sons life that could love him and be loved"". Clara, the last of the female characters that Lawrence portrayed was Paul's flesh support. Although in front of Mrs. Morel and Miriam, Paul was ashamed to show his yearning for flesh, but in his ... heart, this desire could not restrain. He needed a woman, who would be more mature and bold than Miriam, who could bring him ... century women's self-awareness, fighting and dim the epitome of failure. The tr...

• Word Count: 2551
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... the historical novel is not the retelling of great historical events, but the poetic awakening of the people who figured in those events" (42). This poetic awakening in "Crabwalk" is achieved through revisiting history in order to rewrite and revise it. History is humanized and personalized in this novel by making Paul born on a lifeboat on the night of incident and through a reunion of the survivors of the ship. This is the way the characters ... in the novel obtain historical specificity. According ... ...

• Word Count: 2961
• Approx Pages: 12

... quest to make money and buy happiness. The Rocking Horse Winner' is a simple moral story that asserts the dangers of materialism, through the use of an innocent child. Paul is the main character in the story and is desperately searching for luck and money in order to please his unhappy mother. As in My Son the Fanatic', this story also has a reversal of roles between characters. However this reversal ... is more apparent and dominant. Paul's mother defines luck as ... this story, as a ring, a dove, a rabbit and a grave all represent an awakening and transition of a nave little girl into...

• Word Count: 2806
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... been strongly attacked by others for its prejudiced male perspective. Classic psychoanalytic criticism applied the theories either to the author, or his or her characters, which were seen as internalised images that have come from the author's unconscious. The high autobiographical content of Sons and Lovers lends itself to this type of study. Also, if works of art are taken to be disguised expressions of an ... with his father. At this point in the novel, the presence of an Oedipus complex in Paul is so patent that one can hardly consider it as a submerged theme. Looked at another way,...

• Word Count: 1244
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate