Love Needs Death's Nutrition: Interpretation Of The Theme Of Women In Love

Lawrence thinks that the machinery civilization represses and distorts human nature, and destroys the integrality of mankind. The repression and distortion make mankind stay in the condition of abruption and atrophy, spiritually and physically. Mankind is surrounded by a very embarrassing condition, human nature is distorted and the life power is dissimilated. In order to rescue mankind from degeneration, Lawrence believes that the only way is the return to nature. Therefore, the novels of Lawrence have a basic theme that is the negation to the machinery civilization and the aspiration to nature.The typical representative is Women in Love, which focuses depiction on the conflicts of the two couples, Birkin and Ursula, Gerald and Gudrun. Lawrence makes use of symbolism to expose the picturesque conflicts between men and women. Lawrence puts the four characters in different scenes to describe their different psychological reactions and to expose industrialization's contamination to human nature. Because men have the natural desire to control women, in order to protect their dominant position, when they suffer from the resistance of women, it is very natural to stop this resistance and the indisputable result is that both sides lose. Although women can reach a compromise with men temporarily, this compromise can not maintain forever, and the tendency of death is the only result.In this novel, Lawrence pays more attention to the depiction on the shadow of death and the different reactions to death. Through the depiction on these different reactions, men's ideas and women's ideas on marriage, love, power, and even desire are different. Because of these conflicts, which are irreconcilable, the inevitable consequence is the shadow of death. The death of Gerald is just the sufficient embodiment. Therefore, in Women in Love, Lawrence charges the industrialization with murdering human nature and the hope of rebirth and Lawrence exposes the theme that the death of Gerald implies the hope of perfect combination's rebirth, and love needs death's nutrition indeed.