The Love-hostility Relationships In Sons And Lovers

D. H. Lawrence is a versatile, talented and controversial figure in the literary circle of the world. He is a man who is capable of deep and bold thinking involving the dark, hidden side of human nature. The research of this thesis targets at D. H. Lawrence's early novel Sons and Lovers with an attempt to disclose the causes of the various "love-hostility" relationships in the book.The thesis is divided into six parts, including the introduction and the conclusion.The introduction of this thesis gives a brief review of the previous criticism on D. H. Lawrence's works and presents the new research angle and research scope of this thesis. The previous research tends to put the blame for the poor circumstances of the major characters in D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers on the external environment. This thesis aims to dig into the inner psychological factors for a self's sufferings in an already-bad society.Chapter One sets out to explain the complicated psychological elements working in a self's emotions toward others in society and a self's general behavior tendencies-"approach -avoidance" as well as "discharge-delay" tendencies in relation to its "love" and "hostile" emotions toward others, which lays the theoretical basis for the rest of the thesis.With the previously cited psychological theory, Chapter Two, Chapter Three and Chapter Four endeavor to analyze how the concrete love-hostility relationships among the main characters in the novel Sons and Lovers have come into being. The three major love-hostility relationships dealt in the thesis are as follows: the love-hostility relationship between the father Morel and his four children as well as that between the mother Mrs. Morel and her two sons - William and Paul; the love-hostility relationships between men and women as romantic partners - Mr. and Mrs. Morel, William and Lily, Paul and Miriam, Paul and Clara; the love-hostility relationship between man and man as rivals in love - Paul and Dawes. With the psychological knowledge on the "self of a person as well as the love-hostility relationships, the...