Paul is torn between his passion for two women in Sons and Lovers. One is the mysterious, sensual and intelligent Miriam, and the second his unyielding devotion to his mother Gertrude Morel. Paul knows that he is lucky to have his loving mother who thinks and cares for his ever changing future. Pa...

In Dorothy Lessing's, "To Room Nineteen" and in Willa Cather's, "Paul's Case" the protagonists, Susan Rawlings and Paul, respectively live two livesâ€"the physical self and the "other" self. The latter is what governs their every day motivationsâ€"th...

The Rocking-Horse Loser "D. H. Lawrence's The Rocking-Horse Winner transports us into a world where a boy, feeling that his mother does not love him, gambles to compel her to give him what he craves. We realize quickly that Paul conceives his scheme under the influence of his mother. For tho...

What does it mean to be lucky? Or, what does it mean to be successful? How does money corrupt those terms? The beginning of "The Rocking Horse Winner" gives the reader a sense of fantasy. As a general rule, children love fairy tales. We grow up reading stories like Little Red Riding Hood or watching...

'This is a novel about love in all its forms.'What does Paul learn about love from his various relationships in the novel?In the 'rites of passage' narrative Maestro by Peter Goldsworthy, Paul learns about 'love in all its forms'. Through his relationships with his parents, his girlfriend then wife ...

The Rocking-Horse WinnerThe characters in the Rocking-Horse Winner are mostly static. Paul, however is a dynamic character. Paul's mother, Hester "was a woman who was beautiful, who started with all the advantages, yet she had no luck. She married for love, and the love turned to dust.... when he...

"The Rocking Horse Winner" By D.H. Lawrence "interpretation/eveluation" -PlotWho? - Young boy named Paul, a normal kid other than the fact that he is troubled and saddened by the absence of his Mothers love.What? - Paul's quest to find luck, which he has confused with money due to his Mother...

In "The Rocking Horse Winner" by D.H. Lawrence, the emphasis on luck, materialism and money by Paul's loved ones drives him apart, and all he seeks is love and acceptance. The theme is shown through the characters and their actions. These factors are reflected tremendously in tod...

Greed and Addiction "The Rocking-Horse Winner" by D. H. Lawrence is a story of a boy named Paul who grows up in a family that is down on its luck and haunted by an unspoken phrase "There must be more money!" After a talk with his mother, he becomes convinced that he can become l...

Luck is the chance for things to go the way you want them to go with out having any control over the situation. When Paul confused luck with lucre, his mother explained "luck is what causes you to have money...lucre does mean money"(403). Paul's continual confusion leads him to find his "luck" of kn...

D.J. Lawrence writes in his short story, "The Rocking Horse Winner" that ". . . there must be more money. Oh, now, now! Now-there must be more money-more than ever!. . . " (653). Paul, the son, hears these words over and over as greed "whispers" them all around...

Although music is an integral part of Maestro, the novel is essentially a story about a boy's journey into adulthood. Maestro shows us that maturity is gained only through suffering as the novel focuses on the coming of age of Paul Crabbe, who is led on a journey of personal discovery. In t...

In the short story "The Rocking-Horse Winner," D.H. Lawrence presents an upper class family that was destroyed by greed because they always felt like no matter how much money they had, they always needed more. Neither the mother nor the father showed his or her love for the children and they wer...

The Rocking-Horse WinnerThe main themes in " The Rocking-Horse Winner" are the pursuit of love and luck. Both of the main characters in " The Rocking-Horse Winner", Hester and Paul, are in pursuit of love. First the mother, Hester married for love, and the love faded, she gained children from her ma...

Two Different Alarm Clocks I awake each day in my middle-class white suburban home and look around the world with a detached attitude. Bombings in far corners of the globe, and biological warfare threaten humanity daily, yet I conduct myself as if the state of affairs outside of suburbia has no im...

Throughout one's lifetime many relationships are established between people that result in either a negative or positive influence on a person, shaping how they form new relationships with others. Throughout D.H. Lawrence's classic novel Son's and Lovers, the character of Paul Morel is developed th...

Maestro shows us that maturity is gained only through suffering. Discuss.Peter Goldsworthy's Maestro focuses on the coming of age of Paul Crabbe, who slowly leaves his childhood innocence behind to enter the new world of adulthood. His pathway to maturity is described through a series of experiences...

All Quiet on the Western FrontErich Maria Remarque, the author of All Quiet on the Western Front successfully conveys many of his views on war to the reader. Remarque tells the story of Paul Baumer, a twenty-year-old German soldier who enlists with many of his classmates into the German infantry of ...

Beloved Toni Morrison's, Beloved, is a complex narrative about the love between mothers and daughters, and the agony of guilt.It is the ultimate gesture of a loving mother. It is the outrageous claim of a slave.? These are the words, of Toni Morrison, used to describe the actions o...

Erich Maria Remarque used Paul Bäumer to narrate his work All Quiet on the Western Front. A young man of 19 fights for the German army on the French front in World War I. Paul and several of his school friends voluntarily joined the army after listening to the stirring patriotic speeches of ...

The theatre department at Stony Brook University recently put on John Guare\'s play \"Six Degrees of Separation.\" These talented young actors and actresses did a fabulous job of presenting each of the individual characters and their personalities. Although there were a few minor mistakes along the ...

"Not to see beyond the descriptions of Paul Crabbe as self-centered and self-deluding is to miss the development of a sensitive, generous human being." This statement is very true. If someone were to read Maestro and only see Paul as self-centered and self-deluding, they would be unabl...

The characters in Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence and the characters in What Maisie Knew each have a special meaning. They all seem to be interwoven with one another portraying a new cycle in another characters life. For instance, in What Maisie Knew Mrs. Wix was introduced, in my opinion, ...

Main characters - Lauren, Victor, Paul, Sean, Laura Setting - Camden College The entire novel is set in a backwards motion, essentially the story moves from end to beginning, but explaining the story of everyone of the characters separately while all leading to the same conclusion. Sean is an...

Discussion of end of life issues can be quite complex. Arguments on both sides of the issue can be extremely passionate due to the presence of deeply held emotional beliefs among opponents. This characteristic of the debate is fully inescapable in instances such as these. Despite the natural ...