1. 研究目的与意义（文献综述）

rabbit,run is a novel written by john updike. themain character of it is named harry “rabbit” angstrom who was once high schoolsports superstar, but now is trapped in a second-rate existence -stuck with afragile, alcoholic wife. so, rabbit decides to run, run away from this trap.then he meets a hooker, ruth who gives him a completely different feeling andexperience. however, when his wife is about to giving birth to his daughter, heis driven back home by responsibility. at the end, the death of his new-borndaughter causes another run-away. so between the sexual relationships with hiswife, ruth and other women, rabbit has to run away and back over and overagain.

sonsand lovers is a novel written by d. h. lawrence.mrs. morel is a woman from middle class. but by the wrong chance, she ismarried to mr. morel who is a miner and not so well educated. she long despiseshis husband and concentrates all her love to his sons, especially the secondson, paul. after so many affairs that paul has with other women, mrs. morelsuffers from a terminal disease and leaved her son paul lost in disillusion.

the paper isdealing with the sex elements in these two books. by sex elements, they notonly refer to sexual descriptions and nakedness, but also include thepsychology and tendency related to sex. in rabbit, run, they are bold pictures of intercourse and touching. but in sons and lovers which has barely anysexual scene, they are just thoughts and underneath feelings, the psychology.so, the two cases are mainly complementary with each other. the exertion of sexelements has its own category.

2. 研究的基本内容与方案

the main contentof my paper will be parted into four parts

part one :

1. thedefinition and origin of sex

3. 研究计划与安排

before 1st january : settlement of the title

before 1stmarch: submission of the outline

before 15thapril : submission of the first draft

4. 参考文献（12篇以上）

1. ahmed,sofe. "sigmund freuds psychoanalytic theory oedipus complex: a criticalstudy with reference to dh lawrences sons and lovers." internationaljournal of english and literature 3.3 (2012): 60-70.

2. bell,david m. "innuendo." journal of pragmatics 27.1(1997): 35-59.