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Sons and Lovers is a catharsis which sets D. H. Lawrence free from his young manhood to develop as a great writer. The form of this novel makes the story of Paul’s gradual realization of his own inadequacies and influences of his dominant mother’s excessive love on him. Paul's internal conflict is that he can not reconcile his sexual choice with the idealism his mother has inculcated. Paul becomes unable to bear Miram’s concern for his soul, and his relationship with her fails because she has too much soul and not enough body. When he turns to Clara for passion, their successful relationship becomes a sort of cure for the soul that has been wounded by unsatisfied instinctive desire. Lawrence makes it clear and asserts that there is a positive value in this love-making with Clara. Lawrence sets the word ‘Life’ against Miram’s negative coldness to proclaim his own religion. His own religion affirms life force, passion, energy, sex, and impersonal communion with nature against death. Sons and Lovers ends with Paul’s bitter but not hopeless view of the universe, which finally makes him decide to choose the lights of the town in preference to the darkness of death. In the last passage of this novel Lawrence suggests the reversal for Paul’s release and new life. Lawrence urges both the living warmth and the vitality, which are the characteristics of working-class and also positives against negatives such as coldness, the principle of death of Mrs. Morel & Miram.
