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On D. H. Lawrance's Sexual Theory In Lady Chatterley's Lover

Posted on:2004-06-14Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H X LuoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360092999433Subject:English Language and Literature
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D. H. Lawrence is a very famous and controversial British writer. He wrote many novels, essays, criticisms, prose and poems, and most of his works focus mainly on the relationship between the two sexes. My thesis studies the thoughts of his final years by analyzing his last novel Lady Chatterley's Lover and his "phallus" theory. In his final years, Lawrence gradually turned to gentle and moderate attitude toward the relationship between the two sexes. He asserts that the relationship between the two sexes should be restored to harmony and balance to achieve a natural, honest, vital and consummate union which stems from the instinct, vitality, grace and tenderness-the most important qualities shared by both the male and the female. These qualities are the prerequisite for the enhancing of the phallic consciousness and the existing of the phallus.Lawrence's "phallus" theory which includes the feminine quality aims to diminish the distortion of the instinct by the mental consciousness and the repression and destruction of humanity by the industrialized civilization. Lawrence also asserts that the salvation of mankind from the superficial civilization by means of the phallic consciousness and the connecting link—the phallus between the two sexes—is the fundamental way to build a new world where the male and the female are in harmony and balance, and their consummate union is based on the rootedness in nature.
Keywords/Search Tags:the "phallus" theory, relationship between the two sexes, the new world
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