Son and Lover
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Lawrence's most banned novel. Penetrating instinctive desires and touching the "Oedipus complex" deep in human nature. "Sons and Lovers" is Lawrence's first novel. The novel took the world literary world by storm, and its charm remains undiminished to this day. The father in the novel, Morel, is a miner. Years of heavy labor and coal mine accidents have made him grumpy. His mother was born in a middle-class family and has a certain upbringing. When the couple is at odds, the mother begins to dislike her husband and devotes all her emotions and hopes to the child, resulting in abnormal maternal love. The protagonist Paul Morel suffered from physical and spiritual struggles in his relationship with his first love Miriam and married woman Clara until his mother died of illness.
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