Biblical Archetypes In D.H. Lawrence's Novels

David Herbert Lawrence is a famous British novelist, poet, dramatist, essayist and painter of the early 20th Century. In his short but controversial life, he had written 10 novels, 7 Novelettes, around 50 short stories, nearly 1000 poems, 4 plays and also done some paintings. In the novels which won reputations for him, we notice the related connection between them and the Bible, while this connection even is one of the factors which make Lawrence's novels classic works of art. According to those related theories of Philosophy Hermeneutics, the works have meanings or realize their meanings only in the course of their being represented, comprehended and explained. Above all, the text discusses the Bible prototype in Lawrence's novels, including imagoes, characters, motifs and descriptive frameworks, and then reveals the cause, characteristics, essence and meaning of expounding the Bible in his novels..The main text includes five parts, and mainly discusses the inseparable relationship between Lawrence's novels and the Bible:First, from the point of view of mythology and literariness, we probe the biblical archetypal imagoes, archetypal characters, archetypal motifs and archetypal descriptive frameworks in his novels, and account for their inheritance and innovating from the original ideas of the Biblical archetype.Archetypal imagoes include Eden imago, herd imago, agricultural imago, city imago and the imago of human life itself, they represent two concepts of"going up"and"down". The positive inheriting and replanting manifest the concept of going up: that is, in virtue of extolling nature, life force and the flesh and blood, and calling for the humanistic re-collection in the modern world, the author emphasizes the meaning of good; the negative distortion and parable disclose the concept of going down: that is the vanity and decadence of people in the mechanized industrial society. Lawrence bands them together to expresses his unique ideas through the both facets.In the archetypal characters, some inherits the original ideas of the Biblical archetypes, for instance, the natural person Adam, the mother, savior and Aaron etc. It shows that Lawrence had recalled the Bacchus spirit of Nietzsche; Some manifests the satirizing manner of the traditional Christianism teaching, for example, the guilty Adam, which reflects the opposing attitude of the writer to the tradition of inhibiting human nature in Christianism.The irony, such as degenerating and death motifs, and the citation of the biblical original meaning about revival, inanity, vanity and despair and so on, praises the great power of human being on the basis of the vanity and hopeless living state.Lawrence's descriptive frameworks almost entirely agree with the biblical descriptive frameworks of Frye. In the dimension of microcosmic and macroscopic, we can see that Lawrence has rewritten and replanted biblical fairy tales. This not only reflects an important trait of Lawrence novel mode, but also is one of features of the Western literature.In a word, Lawrence inherits and innovates the biblical archetype. The former adopts citing original text, using meanings and so on; the latter express through irony and parody etc. This makes up of surface layer of the relation between Lawrence and the Bible by analyzing these archetypes and the meanings of texts.The second layer is exploring the reason, form trait and particularity of Lawrence's explaining of the Bible in his novels by using the approach of Philosophy Hermeneutics. That is, the factors of Christianism tradition, the family and society compose Lawrence's prescience; along with enlarging view of Lawrence, it shapes the coincidence of the sight fields, which represents intertextuality, hypertextuality and heterogeneity; The essential of explaining the Bible is Lawrence's dialog about the essence of people and world and the Bible. The conclusion points out the ontological meaning about Lawrence explaining the Bible.