Paul Morel is the main character in DH Lawrence's novel 'Sons and

Lovers'. The story charts his early life from when his parents married and

the subsequent birth of four children, through childhood and early

adulthood to the death of his mother. During this time three women have

a major impact on his life, his mother, Miriam and Clara. Each has the

most influence at different times in his life and can be attributed to his

childhood, being a young man and early adulthood respectively; but each

woman's influence carries on to shape Paul into the man he becomes.

From the very beginning there is a connection between Paul and his

mother in that he looks like her with his dark hair and blue eyes. As a

child 'he seemed old for his years', grave and serious like Mrs Morel. He

is a quiet boy but spirited much like his mother and this increases with

age as his other's influence becomes more apparent. 'When she fretted he

understood, and could have no peace. His soul seemed always attentive to

her' is the way their attachment is described; their bond is very strong

and very deep. As Paul grew older she never suffered alone for her

year-old child' rather than she clinging to Paul.

he is a mass of contradictions and seems to realise this at the end of the

incestuous overtones to it. For example the interview at Jordan's in

reverie and religious dreams but he can't. Eventually it becomes a duty to

very early on in the book when Paul breaks his sister's doll and then

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