Sons and Lovers: Examine the Relationships Paul has with the
Women in his Life.
Paul Morel is the main character in DH Lawrence’s novel ‘Sons and
Lovers’. The story charts his early life from when his parents married and
the subsequent birth of four children, through childhood and early
adulthood to the death of his mother. During this time three women have
a major impact on his life, his mother, Miriam and Clara. Each has the
most influence at different times in his life and can be attributed to his
childhood, being a young man and early adulthood respectively; but each
woman’s influence carries on to shape Paul into the man he becomes.
From the very beginning there is a connection between Paul and his
mother in that he looks like her with his dark hair and blue eyes. As a
child ‘he seemed old for his years’, grave and serious like Mrs Morel. He
is a quiet boy but spirited much like his mother and this increases with......
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