"The Lover And The Beloved" In Women In Love

David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) is one of the most unique andcontroversial writers in the 20th-century Britain. Women in Love, as one ofhis most profound and excellent novels, not only exposes the deep socialcrisis of the western world, but also presents a profound critique of thecruel capitalism and industrial society. Most of his works reflect howcapitalist industrialization destroyed the harmony of interpersonalrelationship and suppressed people's unconscious instincts. The mostbasic characteristics of Lawrence's creation are his social criticism andpsychological exploration, fully embodied in Women in Love, which hasgenerally been acknowledged as Lawrence's masterpiece of this kind.D. H. Lawrence, as one who explores characters' psychoanalysis inhis novels initially, deeply convinces readers that the real beauty of loveand life only exists in the unconscious naivety. The goal of life is eachindividual's perfect acquisition, which can not be obtained without theenormous interchange of love from four main poles in the first basic fieldof consciousness. Emphasizing any way, any kind of change will stop alland cause final destruction. Therefore, mankind must accept the essenceof four poles of creative activity powerfully and proudly. In Women inLove, Lawrence has not only made a detailed analysis of the mind and psyche of three pairs of lovers in love with a speculative andcontroversial technique and disclosed their unconscious conflicts andcontradiction, but also has revealed a subtle and delicate transformationof their relationships and their inner desire, exposing to his readers acomplicated and clairvoyant picture of the modern society. Besides,Women in Love is considered as the reflection of Lawrence's owneagerness for desire and opposition, as well as a record of hisself-experience, so it is not surprising for him to perceive the possibilityof an interstellar relationship between men and women with his deeppsychological experience of life established on the basis of reality.It's well known that economic basis determines superstructure andideology. On the other hand, ideology counteracts economic basis. Onlywhen social productive force unceasingly develops, material treasure isenriched day by day, and people's morality, thought and consciousnessare improved simultaneously, can we reform society, establish a newharmony and prefect human relationship. In Women in Love, Lawrencetakes the industrialization and mechanical civilization in the 20th-centuryEngland as the great background, exposing the darkness of human psyche,revealing the inconsistent and unnatural interpersonal relationship causedby the malpractice of the society, and accompanying the rapiddevelopment of economy.Accordingly, the author of the present thesis attempts to appreciate and approach Lawrence's novel Women in Love, on the basis of a closeand speculative reading of the text, from a psycho-analytical perspective,taking Lawrence's own theory on the unconscious, particularly andthoroughly focusing on "the Lover and the Beloved." The research willbe conducted from three aspects (lower plane of love, upper plane of loveand perfection of love), expecting to reveal Lawrence's specialconsideration of interpersonal relationship and the eternal scientific valueof the above-mentioned regularity through his own criticism on themodern civilization dominated by reason and crisis in the 20th-centuryEngland, and Lawrence's search for the unique way to cure society. Thethesis intends to explore a way on how to expound the novel, how toestablish a perfect and harmonious relationship between men and womenand how to attain perfection of love in the cold and desolate industrialsociety, which will certainly not only be of a special and profoundsignificance in a society that shows more attention to and puts moreemphasis on the relationship between individuals and the society, but alsobe of a great importance and of an aesthetic value in appreciating literaryworks.