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D.H. Lawrence: Son and Lover

"Bildungsroman, a form of fiction which allows the novelist to recreate through the maturing of his protagonist some of his own remembered intensity of experience" (Nivin, Alastair; pg. 34)

D.H. Lawrence re-created his own life experience through the writing of Son's and Lovers, an intensely realistic novel set in a small English mining town, much akin to the town in which he was raised. The son of a miner, Lawrence grew up with a father much like the character of Mr. Morel in Son's and Lovers. Morel (as the father is called) is an ill tempered, uneducated, and rather crude man. A man with little ability to express his feelings to his wife and family, who love him dearly despite the fact that he was seldom cordial to any of them.

"Lydia (Lawrence's mother) was high-minded and pious. She had been a schoolteacher and had written poetry. She hated dirt and drink and poverty." (Segar, Keith; pg.11)

Lydia met her husband Arthur at a family......

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