The Dreaming Woman In Sons And Lovers: A Study of Miriam’s Character

Abstract

Sons and Lovers is a remarkable novel written by D.H. Lawrence. This novel indicates Lawrence’s personal feelings and concerns during his youthful years. That is why Miriam has been characterized as a ‘dreaming woman’. The complex and often contradictory elements which made up this concept of New Woman is a persistent them in Lawrence’s early work in his portrayal of the ‘dreaming woman’. These women are emancipated, educated and intelligent; they are stimulating companions and are often crucial in the spiritual development of the men with whom they are stimulating companions and are often crucial in the spiritual development of the men with whom they are involved; but they cannot, or will not satisfy these men’s sexual desires. In other aspects of lives of Lawrence’s ‘dreaming woman’, ‘spirituality’ is potentially radical and liberating; but with sexuality it coincides, in effect if not in cause, with the prevailing social conventions.