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DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE (1885-1930) - Coggle Diagram
DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE (1885-1930)
LIFE
born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, from a miner
excellent dancer, married Lydia Beardshall, from a higher class, but soon he turned into a heavy drinker
he escaped the miner's destiny due to his poor health and managed to become a teacher
he started teaching in a suburb of London but he gave up after a few years for a pneumonia attack
He married Frieda von Richthofen
he spent his last years travelling with his wife to Italy, Australia, Mexico, France, where he died of tubercolosis
WORKS
1911
The white peacock
1913
Sons and lovers
the mutual love with his mother after his brother's Ernest death
1915
The Rainbow
banned by the censors
1920
Women in love
1923
Kangaroo
1926
The plumed serpent
1928
Lady Chatterley's lover
published only in the 1960s because it was considered obscene
LITERATURE
fight against the artificial aspects of industrial civilisation
analysis of relations between the sexes
man as a mixture of impulses and instincts
the strongest being the sexual one
the woman is
only an instrument for mankind's happiness
he refuses the women's new social role
STYLE
traditional omniscient narrator
characters' point of view
variety of rhythm
Sons and lovers
personal experience in a working-class environment
a meditation on the Oedipus complex
an autobiographical novel
Paul
is
Mrs Morel
's third child and the protagonist. Her marriage was a failure and her abnormally close relationship with her son leads him to the unability to sustain a relationship with any woman
Paul rejects his first girlfriend
Miriam
and has a relationship with
Clara Dawes
, who only satisfies his sexual desire
After Mrs Morel's death, Paul wishes to rejoin his mother in death but then succeeds in shaking off his past
narrated in third person but through Paul's eyes
TEXT:
The wind-swept ash-tree
a quarrel between Paul's drunk father and his mother