An Analysis of Ideology in D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers

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The ideology in Sons and Lovers mainly includes two aspects, resistance to industrialization, and morality and rationality. The novel was an art that derived from life but was higher than it. Lawrence used his experience as the frame of the novel, and it has a profound influence on society. It was not only the reproduction of life but also the reflection of the reality of the novel. Lawrence believed that the harmonious relationship between people was destroyed by industrial civilization, and what Lawrence thought about was how to survive the lost nature, and the result of his idea was reconstructing the relationship between people and nature in the works. So, the sex description in Lawrence’s novel was a rational idea, which was based on the social phenomena of capitalist industrialization and the civilization of mechanization that destroyed human life and vitality. He was more concerned about the heartbroken who were injured by the industrial revolution. He felt that mechanization cruelly injured humanity and made people alienated. Human morals declined more and more under this situation. In his works, Lawrence tried to show how human nature with sexual psychology as the center was destroyed by industrial civilization and how that destroyed the harmonious relationship between people. He especially emphasized the description of the relationship between people and sought the evolutionary track, which was impacted by industrialization. However, there is no doubt that Lawrence had not only exerted a great impact on his generation and subsequent generations. Time can test the value of his excellent works. Although the novel was questioned when it came out, people gradually accepted it and appropriated its value in modern literature.