Abstract Both Sons and Lovers and The Peacocks Fly to Southeast have been studied by many scholars from the perspective of the maternal love, its influences throughout their son’s life. By making a comparative analysis of the two works, we will find the two mothers have a serious Jocasta complex: Mrs. Morel turns the love to her son, she is very jealous of her son’s lover; Mrs. Jiao has a strong desire to control Jiao Zhongqing and sends away the virtuous Liu Lanzhi. This thesis will study the similarities of their Jocasta complex (including the two mother’s Jocasta complex and they all caused by the absent role of father) as well as the differences (Mrs. Morel and Mrs. Jiao’s different pursuits, and the different consequences).61411

Keywords: Sons and Lovers; The Peacocks Fly to Southeast; Jocasta complex; similarities; differences

摘要许多学者都曾从母爱的角度对《儿子与情人》和《孔雀东南飞》进行过研究，故事中的母爱对儿子的影响贯穿了他们的人生。通过对比分析两部作品，可以发现作品中的母亲均有严重的恋子情节：莫瑞尔夫人把对丈夫的爱转移到了儿子身上，嫉妒儿子的恋人；焦母对焦仲卿怀有强烈的控制欲，并遣走了贤惠的刘兰芝。本文将对比分析她们恋子情节的相同之处,解释了各自恋子情节的表现，以及两部作品中父亲角色的缺失所导致的后果。

毕业论文关键词：《儿子与情人》；《孔雀东南飞》；恋子情节；相同之处；不同之处

Contents

1. Introduction 1

2. Literature Review 2

3. The Similarities of Jocasta Complex in Two Works 3

3.1 Reflection of Jocasta Complex 3

3.2 The Role of Father 5

4. The Differences of Jocasta Complex in Two Works 6

4.1 The Different Pursuits of Mother’s 6

4.2 The Different Consequences of Jocasta Complex 7

5. Conclusion ..9

Works Cited…….10

 1. Introduction 

    David Herbert Lawrence, an English novelist, proser, literary critic, poet and painter, who is one of the greatest persons in 20th century English literature. F．R．Leavis praised him as “one of our era a great creative genius, a giant British Literature ”. In his short life, he wrote many popular novels and short stories. “His thematic focus on relationships between men and women, and his explorations of psychological motivation in human behavior.” (Shi Yanling, 2011:32)

Sons and Lovers is one of Lawrence’s famous stories which is always regarded as his autobiographical novel reflecting his childhood and adolescence experience. The story regards the protagonist Paul’s emotional experience as the main line, it revolves around Paul and three women (Mrs. Morel, Miriam, Clara). Which is intertwined with the emotional entanglements of mother and son, lovers and son. In Sons and Lovers, Lawrence described the life of a miner worker Mr. Morel’s family. After they married, Mrs. Morel didn’t get along with her husband, she was sick of him, so gradually she turned to her sons for love. This emotion is beyond the normal maternal love that has become the central control and occupy the son’s feelings. The twisted maternal love made Paul lose the ability to love and got into spiritual dilemma. Although his mother’s death made him mentally and emotionally out of control, his life is still full of vacant for the future. The end of the story is Paul hobbled along with the road in the thinking of trance, went to the mysterious future. This book has caused great controversy in the history of Western literature, the reason is that it profoundly reveals and analyzes the Freudian psychoanalysis in Oedipus complex. For example, Gilbert suggested that the novel is a case study of the Oedipus complex theory, in which both William and Paul have Oedipus complex towards their mother. (Gilbert, 1997:32)源:自'优尔.·论,文;网·www.youerw.com/