Cold Comfort Farm and Sons and Lovers Representation of Family Life

The representation of family life in cool relaxation turn and Sons and Lovers Family life in Cold Comfort work ia portrayed negatively mostly throughout the unused. Its one of the main themes in the novel and can be seen through phytology and the presentation of the Starkadders (vegetations contrary relatives). Flora is not close to her family and says If i find out i have any third cousins living at Cold Comfort called Seth, or Reuben, I shall not go. This visualizes that shes already stereotyping her make family, showing that she knows nothing about them.Stella Gibbons seems to challenge the conventional family life by overthrowing normal restrictions like roles and social status that would be placed upon women in society, like Flora. Flora is a very independant women in the novel and doesnt rely on men so she can wait her life. Whereas Mrs Morel is all told dependant on her discussions, capital of Minnesota and William. Sons and Lovers was the third novel published by D. H. Lawrence. The novel recounts the coming of age of Paul Morel, the second son of Gertrude Morel and her hard-drinking, labor husband, Walter Morel, who made his living as a miner.As Mrs Morel tries to find centre in her life and emotional fulfilment through her bond with Paul, Paul seeks to break free of his mother through developing relationships with other women. In my chosen chapter for Cold Comfort Farm (chapter 2) Flora proceeds with her plan, contempt Marys disapproval. Mary goes out to look at a brassiere to possibly add to her massive collection. Meanwhile, Flora writes to a bachelor uncle in Scotland, an auntie in Worthing, a cousin in South Kensington, and distant relatives who live on a farm in Howling, Sussex, known as Cold Comfort Farm.She takes time in stylize each letter to the relatives soulfulnessalities, just now as she knows nothing of the ones in Sussex, she keeps that one very straightforward. Three age later, Flora receives replies from all the rel atives and looks at them with Mary. They all welcome her except on that point be issues that Flora cant abide, such as having to share a live with a cousin or parrot. The letter from the relatives in Sussex is, however, intriguing. Floras Aunt Judith Starkadder seems unlike to all the others and would have more messes to clean.She decides to leave for Sussex the next morning. In my chosen extract for Sons and lovers (chapter 1, pages 26-27, from Good gracious to Its a lie, Its a lie) Mr Morel has come home drunk once again and Mrs Morel has had comely of his childish and selfish behaviour. She confronts him in the kitchen where she is making him and the children food, he starts to raise his role and become verbaly aggressive. This is the first time in the novel where we see the straightforward side of Mr Morel.Throughout chapter two in Cold Comfort Farm the text is written in third-person, however, the focus is on Flora as she is narrating and also seems to give her own viewpo ints despite the third-person structure. Gibbons portrays Flora as a strong, independant women and we can see this by her narrative structure well my sense is made up, so there is no purpose in rock, said Flora. This contrasts Sons and Lovers because Mrs Morel is far from independant, unlike Flora, who likes to exploit her rights.Sons and Lovers is told mostly from a third-person point of view, as the narrator has access to the thoughts of the characters and moves back and forth in time while telling the story. In the extract Mr and Mrs Morel are arguing, merry back and forth off eachother, entirely Mr Morel is clearly the dominant person due to D. H. Lawrences use of language and imagery. He dropped his two hands severely on the table and nasty little bitch makes Mrs Morel feel insignificant.At the start of chapter two in Cold Comfort Farm Flora presents family life as false and cold as she plans to write to her relatives, ever-changing her style of writing to suit each indiv idual personality. Before legal proceeding to write to her relatives she reveals her dislike for her fellow beings. The tone achieved by using this self-absorbed attitued and blunt declaritives shows that she is determined to get what she wants. In the Sons and Lovers extract there are a lot of exclamitory sentences like Good gracious, she cried, coming home in this drunken mess and Say youre NOT drunk . these quotes show professedly emotion and they also show that Mrs Morel has had enough of Mr Morels actions. In time, Mr Morels actions yearn his wife and his children untill they despise him. These are not normal feelings a son should have towards their father. Different lexical sets have been used to show Floras true distance from her relatives. messy, revolting, grief all give a sence of a disease, stagnant life that no one would want to join, but Flora wants to for the expirience of it all.Gives a feeling that family is bad, and must be stopped. She is using her relatives ho spitality to get good writing material for when shes fifty-three. Flora is disgusted at the thought of communicating with her fellow-beings although this compound noun is not instantaneously referring to her family members, it seems that Flora regards them in such an impersonal way. This impersonal tone is built by saying these people and revolting making it clear that she doesnt want to communicate with her relatives, again showing how independant she is.The Sons and Lovers extract has a lexical set of destressed and hurtful words. cried, nasty little bitch, thrust, unopen your face. These set of words create a feeling of hatrid. Mrs Morel says you striket get as dunk as a headmaster on nothing. Even in an argument where Mr Morel is clearly in the wrong, she still compares him to something great. His hat over his eyes, its closely as if hes hiding the real him, he doesnt want to be like this but the alcohol in his body is overpowering him, almost like the dominance of Flora i n Cold Comfort Farm.