D H Lawrence, Sons and Lovers Flashcards
‘sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one’s history, and yet is not real, but leaves one’s self as if it were slurred over’
Ontology
Mr Morel - seems to Mrs M at first ‘noble’, - why?
becuase he ‘risked his life’ in mines for work
What is Mr Morel’s ‘nature’ described as? What does Mrs Morel thus strive to do?
‘his nature was purely sensuious, and she strove to make him moral, religious’
[irony - ‘she strove to make him moral’ plays on his name Mr Morel/Morel, she - in marrying him - is the one who became Morel
What is a morel?
A fungi bearing irregularly patterned spores
How do Mr Morel and Baby William interact?
‘the two played together, and Mre Morel used to wonder who was the truer baby’
What does Mrs Morel do to Mr Morel?
‘in seeking to make him nobler than he could be, he destroyed him…but she lost none of her worth’
What happens to Mr Morel’s physique?
‘his physique seemed to contract along with his pride and moral strength
What happens when mr Morel is ill?
‘he depnedning on her [Mrs Morel] almost like a child, was rather happy’
What happens after Mrs Morel ‘casts off’ mr Morel?
‘his wife was casting him off..henceforth he was more or less a husk’
Why is Mr Morel ‘an outsider’ in his family?
‘he was an outsider. he had denied the God in him’
What happens as Mr Morel ages?
as he grew older, Morel fell into a slow ruin..did not seem to ripedn’
What happens as Mrs Morel is locked out?
‘the child boidled within her’
‘excpet for..his consciousness in the child, her self melted out’
How does Mrs Morel react to william as a baby?
‘she wsaw a man…making the world glow again for her’
How deos Mrs MOrel react to Paul’s birth
‘as if the navel string…had not been broken’
How is Paul first described?
‘paul would be built like his mother’
suggests inevitability - confuses past present and future, tenses
How is the ‘intimacy’ of Pual and Mrs mOrel decribed?
the ‘intimacy’ as compared to that with William is ‘more subtle’ and ‘not so passionate’
Why does Paul ‘suffer’ and from what?
‘he suffered very much rom the first contact with anything////but after that he liked it’
How does Paul discuss his life to his mother?
‘his life-story, like an Arabian Nights….was told night after night to his mother. It was almost as if it were her own life.’
What does Paul always do?
‘he alwasy came to his mother, mkaing her the touchstone’
How does Mrs Morel’s death cause Paul to react?
‘everything seemed to have gone smash for theyoung man. He could not paint’; ‘nothing was distinct, or distinguishable’; ‘she was the only thing that held him up, hismelf…and she was gone, intermingled, herself!….but no, he would not give in’
How is the Death Plan described?
‘they claughted together like two conspiring children…this little sanity’
What does Paul lie to his dying mother about?
that he had ‘tasted’ the lmilk with her morphine OD in
What does Mr MOrel loathe?
[Mr Morel] ‘loathed a fork. It is a modern introduction which has still scarcely reached the common people’
Why do the children enjoy foraging?
‘the joy of contributing to the family exchequer’, but ‘straight from nature’
