The Interpretation of the flowers in Sons and Lovers
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Abstract
Sons and Lovers, written by DH Lawrence, is an earlier works that reflects both penetrating social problem and psychological problem. The theme of the novel is Paul Morel's relationship with his mother and her influence upon his development. This paper will talk about the symbol meanings of the flowers. In this novel, different flowers symbolize the three main different women, and reveal their human qualities, such as white lily symbolizes the pure mother's love; white ros and narcissi imply Miriam's pure spirit, whereas Miriam's intimacy to the flowers indicates that her tendency of posssing objects including Paul's soul; The crimson flowers refer to the passion of Clara. Here, the paper studies the relationship between flowers and main characters, showing that analyzing the meaning of the flowers is important to help us have a better understanding of the theme in the novel.
Key words: flowers, relationship, character
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Introduction
Lawrence's novels are always full of vivid descriptions of natural environment to show that human beings need to live in a healthy and natural world. Also the natural objects such as trees, flowers, the moon and evenings imply symbolic meanings to make the novel significant. To understand the novel better, this paper tries to u a Semiotics approach to interpret the main symbols, so as to reveal the theme of the novel.
In Classics of Semiotics 国防的意义edited by Martin Krampen, Semiotics is thus defined: As a science of sign process, miotics investigates all types of communication and information exchange among human beings, animals, plants, internal systems of organisms. Thus it encompass most of the subject areas of the arts and the social science, as well as tho of biology and medicine. According to this theory, there should be some certain connections between the different flower symbols and the three different kinds of women characters.
Chapter one: The Flowers Related to Mrs. Morel
Everything Paul does is for his mother. As it is, the flowers he picked can prove us that his mother is his only intimate and his only confidant. We can e this unnatural love at any occasion in the novel:
张杰歌曲Then Paul fished out a little spray. He always brought her one spray, the best he could find. (63)
"Here's a bit of new-mown hay," he said; then, again, he brought her forget-me-nots. And, again, his heart hurt with love, eing her hand, ud with work, holding the little bunch of flowers he gave her. She was perfectly happy." (114)
When Paul takes his mother to Lincoln, She was bright and enthusiastic as ever, but as he sat opposite her in the railway carriage, she emed to look frail. He had a momentary nsation as if she were sleeping away from him. Then he wanted to get hold of her, to fasten, almost to chain her. He felt he must keep hold of her with his hand. And later he bought her some blue violets. (222)
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We know that the mother's love to the son is abnormal, but they are not aware of it. And even this feeling grows unconsciously just like the scyllas flowers growing quietly when Mrs. Morel doesn't know:
Under the fence, in a little bed, was a ravel of poor grassy leaves, such as come from very immature bulbs, and three scyllas in bloom. Mrs. Morel pointed to the deep blue flowers.
"Now, just e tho!" she exclaimed. "I was looking at the currant bushes, when, thinks I to mylf, `There's something very blue; is it a bit of sugar-bag?' and there, behold you! Sugar-bag! Three glories of the snow, and such beauties! But where on earth did they come from?" (152)
The white flowers are often related to Mrs. More to express her spiritual features. Let us examine the passage with which the first chapter of Sons and Lovers ends-where Mrs. Morel, pregnant with Paul, wanders deliriously in the garden, shut out of the hou by Morel in his drunkenness. In the garden, she stands cold and isolated from the world, wit
旗鼓相当的近义词h great anguish, feeling the mystery of the nature and nsing the child within her womb:
Mrs. Morel leaned on the garden gate, looking out, and she lost herlf awhile. She did not know what she thought. Except for a slight feeling of sickness, and her consciousness in the child, herlf melted out like scent into the shiny, pale air. After a time the child too, melted with her in the mixing-pot of moonlight, and she rested with the hills and lilies and hous, all swum together in a kind of swoon. (22)
After getting back in the hou, the moment she notices that her face is smeared with the yellow dust of the lilies, she gets relieved, thinking the overpowering scent of the lilies and strange cold light of the moon. It is such a mystical moment that she finds peace in the nsation of her unborn child. This scene is the first indication of a special bond between the mother and the son.刘国梁事件始末
