A DEEP CULTURAL CRISIS

1. Cultural crisis
2. Taboo-ridden
3. Views
4. Progress
5. Cynical
6. Disillusioned
7. Atrocities
8. Gap
9. Waste
10. Frustration
11. Hegemony
12. Dissolution

SIGMUND FREUD: A WINDOW ON THE UNCONSCIOUS

Freud and the psyche:

Topic – Freud’s structural model of the psyche

Main points – identification of id, ego and superego; influence on the development of the human psyche by the subconscious

DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE: AN INTENSE MOTHER-SON RELATIONSHIP

1. He was born in Eastwood, a mining village in Nottinghamshire
2. His dad belonged to the working class and his mother to a higher one
3. He studied at Nottingham University college
4. His mother pushed him to go beyond the restrictive mining environment. David was hopelessly devoted to his mother.
5. While he was in Nottingham, he met Frieda von Richthofen, the German wife of a French professor, with whom he fell in love.
6. Most of his works weren’t welcomed by the public, indeed the censors banned three of them.

SONS AND LOVERS

1. The novel is set in Nottinghamshire.
2. Paul’s parents belong to two different social classes: his dad is a miner and his mom isn’t. His parents don’t get along so well. The social difference brings Paul closer to his mother, but it alienates him from his father.
3. In the novel a social and romantic bondage is explored.
4. Lawrence uses the technique of the third-person narrator from Paul’s point of view; showing and telling and a variety of rhythms, words and images particularly linked to the senses.

THE MODERNIST SPIRIT

1 – C

2 – B

3 – A

4 – C

5 – A

6 – A

7 – same time

8 – him famous

9 – Arnold Schoenberg

10 – distorted

11 – no

12 – no

13 – not given

14 – yes