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Test 
 
Match the titles to their brief summaries: 
 
(1) Sons and Lovers 
(2) The Rainbow 
(3) Women in Love 
(4) Lady Chatterley’s Lover 
 
 
( ) This is Lawrence’s most controversial novel, and perhaps the first 
serious work of literature to explore human sexuality in explicit detail. It 
features some of his most lyrical and poetic prose style alongside the 
theme of class conflict – acted out between an aristocratic, and her 
gamekeeper-lover Mellors. Some feminist critics now claim the novel to 
be deeply misogynistic, because part of its argument is that women will 
reach true fulfillment only by submitting themselves to men. 
( ) This is Lawrence’s version of a social saga, spanning three 
generations of the Brangwen family. It is the women characters in this 
novel who remain memorable as they strive to express their feelings. 
The story concludes with the struggle of two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, 
to liberate themselves from the stifling pressures of Edwardian English 
society. 
( ) This is Lawrence’s first great novel. It’s a quasi-autobiographical 
account of a young man’s coming of age in the early years of the 
twentieth century. Set in working class Nottinghamshire, it focuses on 
class conflicts and gender issues as young Paul Morrell is torn between a 
passionate relationship with his mother and his attraction to other 
women. He is also engaged throughout the novel in an Oedipal struggle 
with his father. 
( ) This novel features the Brangwen sisters as they try to forge new 
types of liberated personal relationships. The men they choose are trying 
to do the same thing – so the results are problematic and often 
disturbing. Many regard this as Lawrence’s finest novel, where his ideas 
are matched with passages of superb writing. The locations combine 
urban Bohemia with a symbolic climax which takes place in the icy snow 
caps of the Alps. 
 
 
KEY: 4/2/1/3