Application Study of Symbolism

D.H. Lawrence was an outstanding novelist of Britain in the 20th century. While he inherited the essence of the realism, he also absorbed nutrition from modernism and made some great developments, one of which was symbolism. Lawrence applied it in many of his works skillfully, which gave the novels a taste of mystery and indicated the ending of the stories. His famous novel Sons and Lovers is naturally not an exception, in which the use of symbolism is a typical character. The writer made full use of this method. There are three kinds of symbols in this story: symbolic images implying the emotion of the characters, symbolic characters standing for different kinds of love of the hero and symbolic episodes expressing the characters’ inner thoughts. The novel has attracted so much attention partly due to the perfect application of symbolism.