The first part of the novel focuses on Mrs. Morel and her unhappy marriage to a drinking miner. She has many arguments with her husband‚ some of which have painful results: on separate occasions‚ she is locked out of the house and hit in the head with a drawer. Estranged from her husband‚ Mrs. Morel takes comfort in her four children‚ especially her sons. Her oldest son‚ William‚ is her favorite‚ and she is very upset when he takes a job in London and moves away from the family. When William sickens
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The understanding of critical approaches to literature helps a great deal while handling the novel. If we choose to take up D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers‚ psychological approach throws light upon certain issues which otherwise would remain unexplored. Along with this engagement with literature‚ film viewing and discussion sessions are also handled. Either we move to a film after finishing a particular section of literature or engage extra hours on Saturdays for watching films ( six/seven sessions
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sexual fulfilment. His experience growing up in a coal-mining family provided much of the inspiration for Sons and Lovers‚ his third novel‚ also considered his ‘crowning achievement’ (Qamar Naheed‚ 1998). Written in 1913‚ it is considered a pioneering work for its realism‚ vivid characterisation‚ treatment of sex complications and faultless control over tone and narrative method. Sons and Lovers is referred to as a Künstlerroman (a version of the Bildungsroman)‚ which is a novel charting the growth
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Supernaturalism is an outstanding romantic quality. It gives certain poems an eerie atmosphere by virtue of which the romantic poetry is often called the “renaissance of wonder”. Coleridge (1772-1834) is one of the greatest of romantic poets who touched lightly on all the keys of poetic expression‚ but he remains unequaled in one sphere of poetry – that is supernatural. Before Coleridge supernatural element had applied in English literature (apart from drama) in the works of Horace Walpole‚ Mrs.
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the use of techniques such a setting and narration. Sons and Lovers is set in the early 1900’s during the second industrial revolution in a small mining town in England. By choosing this time period and place‚ Lawrence isolates the themes to be addressed‚ as well as provides context for the relationships‚ occurrences and behaviour in the novel. The activity of coal mining is an important one in the book as it provides income for the Morels as well as many major problems. This reflects the views
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Questions to ask Brian Morel‚ BP drilling Engineer: * What influenced your decision to use a single liner rather than the recommended 4 to create barriers to flow? Was the saved money (7-10 million) worth the risk? * Were you aware of the risks when you emailed your colleague on April 14th writing “this has been a nightmare well which has everyone all over the place”? * How come you only chose to use 6 centralizers when you were recommended 21? How can you account a such a large difference
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is Mrs. Morel presented in Chapter One of Sons and Lovers? The first chapter begins with a description of the neighborhood of “The Bottoms‚” the miners’ dwellings in which the Morel’s live. The Morel’s consist primarily in the first chapter of‚ Gertrude and Walter Morel‚ and their son William. Before we are even introduced to Mrs. Morel‚ the description that D.H. Lawrence gives in the opening few pages is enough for the reader to graft an opinion. Lawrence firstly writes that Mrs. Morel “descended”
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quality. The following vivid account to the sun-set is a clear pointer to Lawrence’s keen sense of colour and profound descriptive power: “The sun was going down. Every open evening the hills of Derbyshire were blazed over with red sunset. Mrs. Morel watched the sun sink from the glistening sky‚ leaving a soft flower-blue overhead‚ while the western space went red‚ as of all the fire had swam down there‚ leaving the bell-cast flawless blue. The mountain-ash berries across the field stood fierily
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The representation of family life in Cold Comfort Farm and Sons and Lovers Family life in Cold Comfort Farm ia portrayed negatively mostly throughout the novel. It’s one of the main themes in the novel and can be seen through Flora and the presentation of the ‘Starkadders’ (Flora’s distant relatives). Flora is not close to her family and says ‘If i find out i have any third cousins living at Cold Comfort called Seth‚ or Reuben‚ I shall not go’. This shows that she’s already stereotyping her own
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“Property and Trade versus Forced Production” by Edmund D. Morel is an essay that draws attention to the “hypocritical arguments drawn from false premises… designed to confuse judgment” (Morel 171) of the Congo State (European colony‚ not the natives)‚ an illusionist that has transformed its horrendous‚ ignorant‚ and evil acts of imperialism into an “act of philanthropy‚ humanitarianism‚ and righteousness” (Morel 161)‚ and encourages the members of European society to “[fight the Congo State] until
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