On Emoitonal Expressions Of D.H. Lawrence’s Novels

The emotional expressions of D.H. Lawrence’s novels are honest andstraightforward. He manifests the confused hidden reality in people’s heart, writesthe topic that people tend to avoid in real life and even takes it as the center of hisartistic expressions. The images of his characters are vivid, and their emotions arerich and colorful. He takes the inner world of men as the most fundamental existenceand describes sex as the highest realm of returning to nature and his unusual way ofexpressing emotions puzzled and confused his contemporaries. Sex in his writings isclosely connected with emotions, ways of thinking, philosophy of life, and thepotential crisis existed in the development of human civilization, etc., which makeshis novels rich in meanings and has deep and broad connotations and research value.However, although emotional expressions are the biggest highlight of his novels, fewpeople do research on it in deep, specialized and systematical way. This dissertationanalyzes Lawrence’s emotional expressions by using mainly the method ofpsychoanalysis, new criticism, structuralism, semiotics and reader’s response as well.It is divided into6chapters:Chapter One focuses on emotions and the emotional expressions. It is dividedinto3parts:1. Emotions and the generation of emotions.2. The demarcation ofnatural emotions and artistic emotions and the relationship between them.3.Emotional expressions and its levels such as outer emotions, inner emotions andinstinctive emotions.Chapter Two is about the features of the emotional expressions of Lawrence’snovels. This part excavates the features of Lawrence’s emotional expressions basedon Lawrence’s letters, novels, essays, papers and proses, and comes to theconclusion that the feature of Lawrence’s emotional expressions is the emotionalsystem based on instinctive emotions in relations to returning to nature Among allthe relations, the relationship between man and cosmos, the relation between menand women, the relation between body and soul are the most basic ones.Chapter Three deals with the three tier structure which exist in Lawrence’snovels. This part mines out the basic structure of Lawrence’s novels whilepresenting the striking and colorful emotional stories, i.e. the tier of emotionalexpression; the tier of thinking mode, and the tier of instinctive impulse.Chapter Four probes into the emotional expressions which are centered oninstinctive emotions. It points out that his emotional expressions are based on his rich emotional experiences. His emotional expressions can be divided into3tiers:outer emotional expressions; inner emotional expressions and the instinctiveemotional expressions as a whole.Chapter Five aims to figure out the formation of Lawrence’s view of emotions.It explores into the relationships among the view emphasizing materials, the viewemphasizing emotions and the view emphasizing nature. It aims to identify the deepreasons forming his view of emotions.Chapter Six is the interpretation of the emotions of Lawrence’s novels. Itfocuses on the re-evaluation of Lawrence’s novels through analyzing thecontroversies，Lawrence’s view, the nature of the novel, the evaluation of the novel,the definition of the pornographic novels and the generated meanings of Lawrenc’semotions.The dissertation comes to the conclusion that instinctive emotions in his novelsrepresent a full set of emotions. They are the main power in life instinct, the sourcesof positive emotions and they have the emotional function which can form the wayof thinking and produce other emotions. Instinctive emotions are the high abstractand enrichment of Lawrence’s ideas. They become the center of the artisticexpressions of his novels because they can produce numerous meanings. They arethe highest realm of emotional expressions and artistic performance.Lawrence’s unique emotional expressions are related to his origin, health,historical background, life experiences, and his frank, honest and noteworthyconduct. The dissertation holds that both emotions and literature have thecharacteristics of personalization. We can get the objective and accurate evaluationonly through the inspection of the author’s life, experiences, historical background.The reason why Lawrence’s novels produce such differences is that the author takesthe sexual instinct as a source of vitality of life while others regard it as somethingconnected to the social morality. Lawrence’s view of emotions is that of returning tonature. The aim of his emotional expressions based on instinct is to reject the view ofemphasizing materials. Lawrence communicates through his emotional expressionsthat we should cherish life and the vitality of our living organism, as life is the mostimportant thing. We should respect the basic need of our living body, experiencelife bravely and let our life shine brightly.