一份关于劳伦斯《儿子与情人》的读书报告

It’s said the king of Thebes once received the warn from oracle:if he let the newborn grow up,then his throne and life would be threatened.so he ordered one hunter to take the baby away and kill him.but the hunter took a pity for the baby,he didn’t kill him,instead,he abandoned him.the baby was found by a farmer.many years later,when Laius made a pilgrim,he met a young man and he was killed because of a quarrel with that person.and this young man was Oedipus.Oedipus broke the myth of Sphinx and was elected as the king of Thebes.he married the queen-Iocasta.then there were many calamities.the people of Thebes suffered pest and famine.they asked the oracle for the reason.the oracle told them’Oedipus had killed his father and married his mother’.As Oedipus knew it,he blinded his eyes,left Thebes and led a vagrant life.

We have to say that Oedipus’s life was miserable.he could do nothing about his life.his life was enveloped with tragic. But David Herbert Lawrence’s <sons and lovers> was different from it. the inevitable fascination with his son on the mother，and the abnormal cravings of the mother for her son,all these went against moral principles and it spread in the cruel reality to entangle both lives,even at the expense of more people’s happiness.

Lawrence, a writer suffering a lot of criticism. Facing with the difficulties brought about by modern civilization, many writers had a