儿子与情人英文读书报告.doc

Book Report of Sons and Lovers

The book which written by D.H. Lawrence is mainly about love between a son and his mother. The first half of the novel focuses on the love between Paul and his mother, while the rest is about different kinds of love between Paul and two girls.

The elder son in the family is William who is a lawyer in London. Paul is the second son, whose mother was born in a middle-class family and she is cultured while his father is a miner in Nottinghamshire mine. His parents fall in love at first sight at a party and they live happily after they get married. Then they make money to support the family together.

Their happy time just lasts for a short time. After doing heavy work and seeing many colliery accidents, the father’s temper becomes very grumpy. The mother gets tired of her husband when seeing her drunken husband come back very late. They quarrel frequently and sometimes the husband even beats his wife. Paul’s mother usually hurts deeply after fighting. Day by day, she shows no interest in her husband, but devotes all her love and hope to her children, which results malformed motherly love.

William has died of overwork. Then the mother puts all her love to Paul. She encourages Paul to enter high class and become a famous person who can bring fame for her. In order to make up the defect in her marriage, she manages to make Paul not fall in love with other woman. She wants to control Paul’s spirit and even regards Paul as her ideal lover. The love from his mother deeply locks him up in a dark room and he cannot get out of it. Also, he feels painful.

Milian and Clara are two girlfriends of Paul. Paul has many interests in common with Milian, but she pursues fulfillment of her spirit too excessively and she is lack of passion. What’s more, she becomes the enemy of Paul’s mother. Paul has to consider his mother’s feeling even if he loves Milian. Clara lives in the lower class, separated her husband. She has a good relationship with Paul at first. However, they break up soon because the love between them is just lifeless.

After Paul’s mother has died, Paul gets rid of the fetter of his mother’s spiritual control. He could have been reconciled with Milian, but he still rejects her wedding request and chooses to be solitude in the end.

Motherly love is great but unilateral. It can only be the children’s love if it should be rewarded. However, the writer challenges the concept. He turns the love between the mother and the son into the love between lovers, which brings negative spirited burden to the son and the mother. The end is doomed to be a tragedy because it is against normal social ethic. But this kind of love is worthy to be thought about.