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conversations.value: What is a plot for a book about Paul\'s, Paul, Clara entitled Sons and Lovers? Start with the sentence 'Sons and Lovers (film): A young man with artistic talent who lives in a close-knit, English coal-mining town during the early 20th century finds himself inhibited by his emotionally manipulative, domineering mother — a literary, psychological interpretation of the Oedipus story'.
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conversations.value: Sons and Lovers (film): A young man with artistic talent who lives in a close-knit, English coal-mining town during the early 20th century finds himself inhibited by his emotionally manipulative, domineering mother — a literary, psychological interpretation of the Oedipus story.\nGertrude Morel, miserable in her marriage, puts her hope into her son, Paul.\nIn her attempt to manipulate Paul\'s life she jealously attempts to prevent Paul from having a relationship with any woman.\nHowever, Paul goes to the city for a job and becomes enchanted with self-actualized and "liberated" feminist co-worker, mrs Clara Dawes, who is married.\nPaul and Clara become involved sexually and Clara realizes that Paul\'s emotional attachment, as with her own, lies with another person — in Paul\'s case, his mother.\nGertrude learns of Paul\'s involvement with Clara, and she slips into a morose depression and physical sickness.\nPaul flees to his mother, to care for her and sit by her side.\nAfter his mother\'s death, Paul meets the girlfriend of his youth, Miriam, and tells her that because of his codependency with his mother he intends to live the rest of his life without any serious relationship with another woman — in essence fulfilling his mother\'s desire and objective.\nThe film does not deal with a pivotal episode in the novel, wherein a distraught Paul ends his mother\'s suffering by giving her a massive overdose of morphia, a potent opiate analgesic drug.
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conversations.value: What is a plot for a book about Paul, Walter, Morel entitled Sons and Lovers?
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conversations.value: Sons and Lovers: The refined daughter of a "good old burgher family," Gertrude Coppard meets a rough-hewn miner, Walter Morel, at a Christmas dance and falls into a whirlwind romance characterised by physical passion.\nBut soon after her marriage to Walter, she realises the difficulties of living off his meagre salary in a rented house.\nThe couple fight and drift apart and Walter retreats to the pub after work each day.\nGradually, mrs Morel\'s affections shift to her sons beginning with the oldest, William.\nAs a boy, William is so attached to his mother that he doesn\'t enjoy the fair without her.\nAs he grows older, he defends her against his father\'s occasional violence.\nEventually, he leaves their Nottinghamshire home for a job in London, where he begins to rise up into the middle class.\nHe is engaged, but he detests the girl\'s superficiality.\nHe dies and mrs Morel is heartbroken, but when Paul catches pneumonia she rediscovers her love for her second son.\nBoth repulsed by and drawn to his mother, Paul is afraid to leave her but wants to go out on his own, and needs to experience love.\nGradually, he falls into a relationship with Miriam, a farmer\'s daughter who attends his church.\nThe two take long walks and have intellectual conversations about books but Paul resists, in part because his mother disapproves.\nAt Miriam\'s family\'s farm, Paul meets Clara Dawes, a young woman with, apparently, feminist sympathies who has separated from her husband, Baxter.\nAfter pressuring Miriam into a physical relationship, which he finds unsatisfying, Paul breaks with her as he grows more intimate with Clara, who is more passionate physically.\nBut even she cannot hold him and he returns to his mother.\nWhen his mother dies soon after, he is alone.\nLawrence summarised the plot in a letter to Edward Garnett on 12 November 1912:.
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conversations.value: What is the first five paragraphs for this book? End with the sentence ' † Nonsense.'.
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conversations.value: Sons and Lovers
  Let us hesitate no longer to announce that the sensual passions and mysteries are equally sacred with the spiritual mysteries and passions. Who would deny it any more? The only thing unbearable is the degradation, the prostitution of the living mysteries in us. Let man only approach his own self with a deep respect, even reverence for all that the creative soul, the God-mystery within us, puts forth. Then we shall all be sound and free. Lewdness is hateful because it impairs our integrity and our proud being.
  The creative, spontaneous soul sends forth its promptings of desire and aspiration in us. These promptings are our true fate, which is our business to fulfill. A fate dictated from outside, from theory or from circumstance, is a false fate.
  Person who distributed unfinished stockings to female workers to stitch the back seam at home for extra money.
  More commonly spelled Michelangelo; Italian sculptor, architect, and painter in Renaissance Italy (1475-1564). D. H. Lawrence later describes Paul's artistic style as having "a certain luminous quality, like some of Michael Angelo's people...." (see page 329).
  Belief that the truth of God cannot be understood through purely rational or scientific inquiry. † Nonsense.
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conversations.value: What is another paragraph?
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conversations.value: More commonly spelled Michelangelo; Italian sculptor, architect, and painter in Renaissance Italy (1475-1564). D. H. Lawrence later describes Paul's artistic style as having "a certain luminous quality, like some of Michael Angelo's people...." (see page 329).
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conversations.value: What is the last three paragraphs?
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conversations.value: More commonly spelled Michelangelo; Italian sculptor, architect, and painter in Renaissance Italy (1475-1564). D. H. Lawrence later describes Paul's artistic style as having "a certain luminous quality, like some of Michael Angelo's people...." (see page 329).
  Belief that the truth of God cannot be understood through purely rational or scientific inquiry. † Nonsense.
  Literally, "Look for the women" (French); here the implication is "the woman is the root of the problem."