Lady Chatterley's Lover - DH Lawrence
According to Lawrence, World War I was a tragic disgrace and resulted in a chaotic society in England. He felt that the English morals and guidelines changed drastically after the war. In the first chapter of "Lady Chatterley's Lover," Lawrence wrote: "Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes (Lawrence, 1995, p. 2)."
Lady Chatterley's Lover is full of social, political, and cultural implications. By focusing on the forbidden relationship between Lady Connie Chatterley and Oliver Mellors, Lawrence reveals a great deal about the structure and politics of post-war society.
While the main theme of this book is love, the unproductiveness, inhumanity and ugliness of life in a local mining community play a large role in this book. The political elements of this book are clearly demonstrated by Lady Chatterley's life in a society devoted to making money. The book was extremely controversial when published because it is erotic.
However, Lawrence was not aiming to create a pornographic work. Instead, through his descriptions of physical love, he aimed to show that a relationship cannot exist without love and caring. In a society in which harshness and brutality run rampant, Lawrence aimed to show couples must overcome their surroundings to develop a loving, harmonious relationship together.
Mellors, a local gamekeeper, shows the...
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