The Role Of Nature In D.H.Lawrence's Major Novels

As one of the twentieth century's most important novelists, Lawrence remains asignificant force in modern fiction, both for his artistic work and his innovative vision.What this thesis focuses on is his manifestation of the role of Nature by thepresentation of nature's various facets with its various implications. The natural world,a place that Lawrence could infuse with his free expressions, constitutes not only animportant part of Lawrence's metaphysical ideas, but also, I shall argue, the vitalelements of the art of his work. By accepting the possibility of some divine patternsand directions in the universe, the natural world in his novels turns to open up wholeareas of his character's personalities that are not susceptible to analysis in thetraditional ways. In fact, Lawrence seeks to express men's instinctive drives, theirinarticulate inner psychic being and his own philosophic viewpoints by placing hischaracters, often at the moments of crisis, in nature rather than apart from it. Withnature as an enormous background of his literary creation, Lawrence postulates manand nature share some basic impulses towards survival, health and fulfillment thatshould bring the two into much closer relationship. As far as I know, nature in Sonsand Lovers works as a matrix of life, in The Rainbow as a primitive force of life, whilein Lady Chatterley's Lover, it plays the role of a retreat of life. In a nutshell, the variousroles that Lawrence presents in his creative works crystallize into a kind of spiritualstrength, a strength that can help free men's instinctive drives, their inarticulateunconsciousness and their intuition without the inhibition imposed by the modernindustrialism and civilization.