Sons and Lovers

Brandon is sitting at his crowded office desk with stacks of papers in the corner, and his lunch out in front of him in Wichita, Kansa, staring out the window watching the wheat as it delicately flows in with the slight breeze. Breaking news just came on tv, a hurricane is about to hit Texas and devastate thousands of people. Brandon automatically starts racking his brain on what to do. Brandon thoughts are all over the place. Should he take that long drive and go down to help, or should he…

led to the conflict in the house. Lawrence started his life from lower working class background to the intellectual class and he gained international reputation as an important twentieth century author. According to Harris (1984), Lawrence wrote Sons and Lover in 1913 and The Rocking Horse Winner was published in 1926 in Harper's Bazaar magazine. The Rocking Horse Winner is a short story that incorporates the elements of a fairy tale and fantasy. It tells the reader about the whispering house…

and control,’ such as, Puck manipulating the lovers, Egeus controlling or manipulating Hermia to marry the man who he wants and Oberon manipulating the lovers. This essay will explore the theme of ‘manipulation and control’ and answer the question of ‘if love is always at the heart of the manipulation?’ using some examples, the events that are listed as above and how they relate to the theme and the question during the play. Puck manipulated the lovers as he obeyed Oberon’s instructions in act…

the imbecile, that from his political non-participation, comes the prostitute, the abandoned child, the robber, and worst of all, corrupt officials, the lackeys of exploitative multinational corporations.” Lawrence’s much loved third novel Sons and Lovers (1913) is an intense study of human relationships, family, society, class and sexual relationships. This work is semi- autobiographical. It draws heavily on his own experiences which he was trying hard to understand. His parents did not share…

time that’s when my eyes were wide open and surprised how Calixta and her ex-lover got away with having sex without their wife or husband finding out. I think this short story relates to how cheating and having hidden affairs still happens now in modern life, thus the characters kept the plot of the story on my edge of my seat. I was thinking her husband Bobinot and their son Bibi were going to catch her and her ex-lover on the scene while having intercourse. This fiction story was written by…

finally looking at him. Eight Brief Tales of Lovers Pyramus 133-136 Pyramus *Young *Wishes to be w/Thisbe *Lived in the city of Queen Semiramis *Man vs. Society *Pyramus vs. Family This myth explains why the berry of the mulberry turns red. I feel that this is important because it takes something they do not understand and explain it by saying that it turns red due to the stained blood of two lovers. it was stained with the blood of the lovers. Love knows no boundaries as Thisbe is…

These experiences helped Siddhartha become his own teacher and obtain wisdom throughout his travels as a merchant and lover, to a father, to even a ferryman. Whereas, Siddhartha unlocked the key to wisdom through the realization that everything is one. Thus, whenever Siddhartha sees a rock he loves it or a bird because of how they are made of the same figurations as he…

self -punishment upon herself by rehashing the memories that she had with her lover exemplified by “you would let loose your longing and neither any [ ] nor any holy place nor was there from which we were absent” (94). By ruminating over the past, she causes herself pain because in the back of her mind she knows that she can never get those memories backs. However, those emotions quickly transform into anger towards her lover that eventually fizzles out and provides Sappho a sense of peace and…

Homer, is a classic known by many worldwide. In this book we find Odysseus going through many hardships before finally getting back to his hometown in Ithaca. What helped him go through these hardships is the though of getting back to his family, his son Telemachus and his wife Penelope. “Agamemnon” written by Aeschylus, is a tragic story whose main character, Agamemnon, undergoes a chain of events that are both similar and different from each other. One of the similarities between these two…

Despite such a loyalty between lovers, many laws were enacted in Athens and Boeotia in order to protect young boys from the wrong men. Athenian law is quite confusing because, it encourages the courtship of boys, but on the other hand demands that fathers protect their sons from those who wish to court them. In fact sons had strict teachers who were in charge with controlling their behavior. The law forbade slaves to be a lover of a free boy or to pay court to them. If a slave…