Her emotion was influenced by her living environment and was depressed both inside home and outside. Mrs. Morel who came from a little capitalist class, aloof and cultured, was a Victorian woman who had knowledge like Lawrence's own mother. When she was very young, she had been struggling against patriarch, fighting for her existence and for women's rights, longing for becoming an authoritative, independent and responsible man. "If I were a man, nothing's gonna stop me " .
As the England industrial atmosphere came, in the man-centered family, her husband treated her sadistically, in order to live, Mrs. Morel naturally constituted an alliance with her sons. She taught them to change their social status and enter the Middle class through.
Knowledge and will, so the children became Mrs. Morel's tools to make her dream and ambition come true. But all these just painted deep tragic color to Mrs. Morel. Because Mrs. Morel's dream, choosing the road to set up a union with her son to become hermaphrodite did not come true, she put her children in her bosom, cast her own dream and outlook on life on her children, hoping to fill her empty emotion. .
Although this abnormal maternal love helped her sons become outstanding, it also held back free growth of individuality, caused their thought variant and their personality split. According to Ann Oakley, " Women as the guardians of children possess a great power, they are molders of their children's personalities and the arbiters of their development". Its however important for the mother to know when to let go of her son and allow him into the world. In Sons and Lovers, the bond between the mother and son is exemplified in a profound way. Mrs. Morel's relationship with her sons, especially Paul, proves to be harmful to the growth of her sons. Eleanor Sullo agrees "Paul's imprisoning relationship with his mother cripples all his other relationships. ".
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