Lady Chatterley's Lover-A Great Naturalistic Novel

D.H. Lawrence is an important novelist of Britain in the early 20^th century. He is a controversial figure, whose major works haven't been accepted and understood for a fairly long period of time. The main works of Lawrence all take the sex relationship and the criticism of the mechanized industrial civilization as the dominant themes. Despite the controversial critical responses, Lady Chatterley's Lover which had been suppressed for obscenity received some positive comments after its publication.In the later stage of the 19^th century, there in France appeared the school of naturalism. In the last years of the 19^th century and the early years of the 20^th century, naturalism was superseded by modernism bit by bit. However, as the medium of realism and modernism, naturalism and its influences did not disappear. Instead they infiltrated into modernism. Writers in the 20^th century inherited and developed it in their works. Lawrence, one of the noted writers in the 20^th century, made great contributions in this respect, especially by publishing one of his masterpieces Lady Chatterley 's Lover.This thesis tries to analyze the naturalistic characteristics of the novel Lady Chatterley's Lover in detail. Chapter One makes an introduction to Lawrence. Chapter Two sums up the plot of the novel and lists the comments of various critics. Chapter Three introduces Naturalism and explains Lawrence's naturalistic ideas. Chapter Four deals with naturalism developed by Lawrence in Lady Chatterley's Lover, including Lawrence's naturalistic ideas and the naturalistic strategies employed by Lawrence. Finally, a conclusion is drawn which emphasizes the contribution made by Lawrence to the development of naturalism.