Sons and Lovers

The main theme of this novel 'Sons and Lovers, is 'Family Psychology, and the Oedipus complex' the story focuses that Paul thinks death would reunite him with his mother, but he doesn't commit suicide and starts living a good life and get over his mother's death. The author has focused on family relationships and it narrates the unhappy marriage between Mrs. Morel and the drinking coal miner. Paul becomes very possessive of her mother's corpse even. He doesn't allow even his neighbors to come & see her corpse. The beauty of this novel is that it may be based on the author's own experience and self. It seems as if most of the matter is related to the author's own early life in the midland coal-mining village of Eastwood. His father was a coal miner with little education. In this novel, the family conflicts of the Morel couple stand similar to the Lawrence couple. 'Sons & Lovers' narrates how the conflict usually takes place in such places. Its presentation is somehow very original and touchy. This novel is Lawrence's most autobiographical novel.