The significance of the title as revealed through the relationship of the main character in D.H. Lawrence's novel, sons and lovers - Widya Mandala Catholic University Surabaya Repository

APPENDIX1
SYNOPSISSONSAND LOVBRS

Sons
Lawrence,
published

and

Lovers

David

1913. Besides producingi novels,

also writes

essays,

and


stories.

short

by

written

Herbert

the Elreatest EnEllish novelist

one of
in

is

poems, plays,

letters,


Sons aDlL Lovers

is

najor

work and a seni-autobiographical

early

life

and

DH Lawrenee
travel

DH


he

books

Lanrence's

account

and the anbiguous relations

is

his

of

shared

with


the

nain

his parents.
This
character,
also
Hirian
based
and
taken

novel

Paul'l'lorel
Horel's

Paul


had with

close

with

his girlfriends.

place

The

early

married

story,

it


with

with

is

taken

theme

Dawes. This

is

of

Sons gggf Lovers

the daughter


that

and

was

is

is

sinilar

is

fron

started

In the beginninEl


l{a1ter Morel had already

of an enElineer, Gertrude

expected

novel

this

that

nother

his

in Nottinghanshire.

of The Horels.


totd

with
of

The setting

maiden nane of l{rs Horel).
old

relationshiPs

in a coal nininEl connunity

story

l{rs Horel and

nother,


on DH Lawrence's own experiences

to Lawrence's birthplace
.

his

Personal

and Clara

Leivers

of

the relationship

explains

third


babv.

of

one
This

the

narried

CopPard

She was now thirty
her

the

(the
years

couple

had

for

narried

years

old).

After

the third

Arthur.

l{r and Hrs I'lorel's

because

l'lr

Horel

they

addition,

in poverty.

lived

hin

children,

particularly

PauI. Hrs Horel
of

her

all

and turned

rejected

struggled
to

harnony
fn

niner.

brutal

This

situation

nade l{rs
Horel

l'lrs

four

her

towards

and

sons, l{illian

the povertv

with

baby,

in

and

love

her

fanily

her
will

not

London

and

her sons

that

Deanness

and

and

keep herself

and was deternined

respectable

was not

her two eldest

surroundings

seventeenth

her husband. Then,

with

a

(five

f ourth

the

narriage

and

Annie

baby, Paul was

was a drunken

dissapointed

llorel

and

l'lrs l'lorel was expected

old,

nonths

and had had a son

(seven years old)

I{illian

daughter,

years

eight

becone niners.

worked as a clerk.
poverty

of

his

PauI's

fanily

went to

l{illian

hard,

studving

After

by the

short

was cut

schooling

as a clerk

and he found a iob

in

sur8ical-appliancefactoryinNottin€han,wherethework
was easy and where he was allowed

talent

his

to develop

forpaintinEl.Becauseoftheirfather'sattitudetowards
theirnother,TillianandPaulhatedtheirfather.
Heanwhile,
falling

in

was short.
desease.
beloved

Tilliam
love with

a €irl,

net

her.

Unfortunately,

l'tore1

son. This

f elt

situation

desperate

he

tlillian's

He Eot pneunonia and he died
Hrs

and

Lilv

had

because of

af ter

was worsened

was
life
this

losind

her

because

Paul

also

fell

ilI.

llrs l{orel

seven weeks. After

nursed Paul back to health

that,

the relationship

for

between

PauI

and his mother deepened.
On

the walk with
l{illey

in

fanily

and

Leivers

a

Hirian,

together

and

Farn.

that

llirian

with

l{rs l{oreI

One day,

to Clara

already

had a iob

in

was also

parents'

house, so only

the servant,
Pau]'s
nother,

l'lirian

with

Clara

Because

narried

lived

and

of an old
he

far

Baxter

with

Leonard
who

with

narried

Paul stayed with

his

had

Beatrice
their

from

away

of

with

Arthur

Sheffi.e1d.

gettinEl

Gate

infornations,

narried

up

b}ane

and Put the

Parents and

I'linnie.
af f air

with

l'lirian

was interfered

so they agreed to break up. Having

f ron

break

Dawes, the daughter

Both Annie and Arthur

tfvld.

to

on Castle

Annie was getting

feared

l{rs Horel

Fron l'[irian's

agreed to stay

they

nathernatics.

her son, Pau}.

Clara Dawes had already

that

the

poetry

the

and

hated l{irian

The

and

PauI

read

to her.

PauI met Hirian

of Hrs Leivers.

Dawes. Heanwhile,
and

They

Leivers
with

friendly

Elreerbetween

sketches

relationship

he was introduced

knew

was

exclude her and tried

will

these reasons,

friend

PauI met.The

PauI tauglht her French

even showed his

l,lirian.

PauI

shy girl.

a

PauI

l{irian's

nother,

tenderness

daughter

on

his

bv

broken

his
away

Paul

was

involved

Dawes, who had seParated from

her

husband,

because of

his

nother,

Baxter
old

Dawes. At this

and

Clara

intimacy
Mrs

with

l{orel

l{oreover,

PauI

reninded Paul that

Clara

After

and

affair

i11,

to

the
Iife.

husband.

Clara

Dawes was anElry

with

wife

his

went

that

Paul realized

her

to check

his

his

petered

Because

in

nother

health.

last

her husband. Hrs llorel's

sick

becane

Paul could not

see

his

Clara

stand to

he and his
in her nilk
the urge to

and with

After
follow

a Elreat effort,

that,
his

she
worse

nother's

Annie

sister,

of

Sheffield.

at

darkness'

to
PauI

until

Paul

and

PauI resisted

He
his

out

Finally,

But,

fact.

she got a cancer.

Paul visited

overdose of norphia
died.

narried

nother.

diaBnosed that

with

worse.

sufferinEl .

his

a

this

kicked

fielhtinEt,

Hiriam.

to

Paul and

Then, Baxter

Horel.

f or

and introduced

Hore1 went to Sheffield

doctor

returned

that

paul's

Hrs

was

her

about

husband , Baxter

this

for

with

care

relationship

together.

his mother's
His

divorced

really

knowing

love was just

The

by

she

Clara's

Hrs

interfered

years

four

Paul.

she f e}t

his

hurt.

than

t,he sane hostility

after

theatre
was

C1ara was also

seemed not

parents.

years older

was six

she hadn't

continued

Paul was twenty

felt

woman and
PauI

tine,

Hrs

nother

turned

put

an

Hore1
'into
towards

A P P E N D IX2
BIOGRAPHY
OF THE AUTHOR

David

Herbert

NottinElhamshire,
hard-drinking
teacher
his

and his

who was socially

poverty.
affection

parents

influence

deternined

encuraged

hin

reflected

to

attended

education

and take

farmer's

daughter,
having

scholarship

worked

His

His

nother

nines

is

in
an

and

situation

is

the

Dost

novel.

he won a scholarship
School

for
to

At, this

tine,

with

Jessie

Chanbers,

for

a teacher's

certificate.

for

a few years

in an elementary

he

of Sons and

University
After

up

his

a surElical goods

tine.

to save E 2O fee,

he

years.

Elive

in

the Hirian

and

three

as a elerk

at Nottinghan

than

nother.

the

which

he was forced

a job

relationship

of

r.overs

Higih

15,

ex-school

and

strong.

out

was a

and grew up

his

fanily

urging

a short

an

continually

This

of Lawrence's

at

for

hin

and

Nottinghan

Unfortunately,

Eastwood,

superior

as a chitd

quarelled

school.

At his nother's

tgg6,

ill

keep

Sons

in

at

was

to him was very

at

autobiographical

close

nother

Elrew between Lawrence and

mother's

factory

born

and intelectual]y

He was often

His

was

on September 11, 1995. His father

niner

father.

was

Lawrence

he

forned
a

local

Lovers.
took

ColleEle

to

Elraduated, he

a

up

In
a

study
taught

school near London.

He was alteady
then
and
death

he began his
eras

first

his

novel

then he gave up teaching.
who
three

eras

years

six

children.

and

Lawrence

fhe.-,5.i-stel sptit

His next novel,

(1 9 2 3 ),

he

the

(p u btished

also wrote non-fiction

(L9ZZ),

Studies

seriously
age of

because of

interested
forty

four

tuberculosis.

works

Classic

in painting'
in French,

Ladl.
1928) '

such

Fantasia

(1921),

in

and

ltaly,

in

(1923) and Apocalvose (1931).

Literature

at

( 1926) ,

and the Unconscious

Psvchoanalvsis

he also

for his writing.
The Rainborr (1915)

into

@

L o va r

C h a t t e r l e w's

Unconscious

his

r nove and

novels were Aaron's Road (1522>

later

Lawrence's

Furthernore,

's

( 1921).

and XolenjnLocs

Ka n { a r o o

]ove

in

was published.

F ri e d a w e re always on the

supptied hin with naterial

nonadic life

of

Lawrence

1913,

novel, Sons and Lovers

autobioElrapical

Weekly,

narriage

Thev fell

In

and

nother

her

with

in Nottinghan.
Gernany.

to

and

than Lawrence

the

iII

seriously

She was dissatisfied

eloped

and

After

1912 he net Frieda

In

older

by life

and suffocated

(1912).

and

(1911)

Peacock

The lfhite

he becane very

nother,

stories

and short

by The Tresoasser

followed

of

poetry

writing

of

Anerican

Besides
Lawrence

on Mareh

as

2,

that,
died
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