On The Female Images In Lawrence's Works

D. H. Lawrence started a new age in the British literature with his consummate style of writing. His works express the depressive and divisive self, the contorted humanity and the frustrated instinct in the modern mechanical civilization and industrialized society. He used his tongue to communicate his understanding of merit. However, Lawrence is also a disputed author in the 20th century, whose works had been closed down and abridged for the mass sexual depiction. Now, people rarely censure Lawrence's works to be erotic and obscene, but turn to debate whether they oppose the feminism. Some feminists thought that Lawrence suspected and hated women, regarded women to be appendix of men. However, through Lawrence's woks, the subject matter is to in search of a perfect relationship between men and women. In his opinion, the society can be salvaged only by the harmonious intersexual relationship, which is the unification of spirit and body. Early feminists pursued equality, made women adverse to men. But Lawrence acknowledged sexual differences, upon which he searched for a harmonious. This point of view is very close to the upper feminism. So we may regard Lawrence to be a leading feminist in this angle.This dissertation is composed of five chapters: introduction, Lawrence's notion of gender, Lawrence's female images, the modern apocalypse and epilogue.Chapter one introduces the social background of Lawrence's writing. In that age, the British people were experiencing a crisis of spirit. Lawrence wanted to pursue a harmonious intersexual relationship to prevent corporeal civilization eroding the humanity and nature.Chapter two introduces the historical background and development of the feminist movement in the early ages of 20th century, and Lawrence's purpose ofthis movement. He was against the radical woman's rights, and thought that men and women should be interdependent as well as independent, sex is the root of human's relationship.Chapter three gives a detailed analysis to the female characters in Lawrence's works. They can be divided into three classes. The women in the first category always competed with men and didn't gain any blessedness. The second kind women have an ideal notion of gender, but they compromised to the cruel real-life at last. The third one is the explorer of the intersexual relationship," they are persevering and obtained some success.Chapter four discusses some modern apocalypses from these female images. Firstly, nature is a perfect place for women to relax, and it represents a reversion of sex. Secondly, women should exploit more social identity than "mother" and "wife", but in the other hand ,this traditional identity are most important for them, as men and women charge different areas respectively.The last chapter comes to a conclusion. Lawrence figured some ideal femaleimages to express his own ideality--pursuing natural humanity and harmoniousintersexual relationship.