H. Lawrence's works, a closer look at his life seems to be inevitable. Characters and local settings in his books or stories quite often resemble Lawrence's own biographical background (cf. Aschermann 20). For this reason, I would like to give a brief summary of some facts of his life that seem to be important for the understanding of "Lady Chatterley's lover-.
David Herbert Lawrence was born on September 11th, 1885 in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire. His father being a coalminer, his mother a former schoolteacher from an impovered middle class family, Lawrence grew up in a household that was marked by the surroundings of the coalmining milieu, by quarrels between his parents, and by his very dominant mother (cf. Worthen 8 ff.).
Right from the beginning of his life he was a sickly child, suffering from lung problems. Therefore, he had to start school two years later than usual. He attended Beauvale Board School when he was seven and won a scholarship to Nottingham High School, an almost completely middle-class school. Being a collier's son, he did not really fit into the school's milieu. He did not get on very well and left school at the age of 16 to start working as a clerk in a Nottingham factory. But the work in the factory did not suit his already battered health and Lawrence became seriously ill with double pneumonia, which he nearly died of (cf. Worthen 12 f.). This was not the only time that illness forced him to change his life. He started a career as a teacher and also started writing, until another serious attack of pneumonia compelled him to give up teaching in 1911.
After his recovery he met Frieda Weekly, who was the wife of one of Lawrence's former professors and mother of three children. They fell in love and fled to Europe, leaving everything else behind them. After Frieda's divorce had been completed in April 1914, they married in the summer of the same year (cf. Worthen 26 ff.) .
The beginning of the Great War shocked D.
On D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers And the Oedipus complex [Abstract]: On D.H. Lawrence 's novel Sons and Lovers, the author in this thesis attempts to analyze the Oedipus complex how to appear, the concrete exhibition, the origin and the aftereffect. Meanwhile, introduce something about "Oedip...
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