A New Man-Woman Relationship As Conceived By D.H. Lawrence-Resurrection Of The Modern World

David Herbert Richards Lawrence (11 September 1885– 2 March 1930) was an English author, poet, playwright, essayist and literary critic. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization. In them, Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality, spontaneity, human sexuality and instinct.Lawrence's opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life. At the time of his death, his public reputation was that of a pornographer who had wasted his considerable talents. Even today, more than 70 years after his death, Lawrence remains an enthralling figure. Hailed as a genius by some, labeled an out-of-fashion misogynist by others, he's probably best known for his overt description of sexuality in his novels, through which he claims the importance of instinct, intuition and body over that of reason, rationality and mind.With a reference to Lawrence's experience and study on his major works, this thesis aims at an understanding of Lawrence's radical idea—to rescue mankind through sex.The thesis starts with an introduction to Lawrence himself and his social environment, particularly Industrial Revolution and its influence on the whole society. It then discusses the source of Lawrence's ideal: Sigmund Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche. Freud placed an enormous emphasis on sexuality as a well-spring of human behavior and Lawrence assimilated his theory into his own belief. Nietzsche inspired Lawrence with his dualistic term Apollonian Reason and Dionysian intuition, which Lawrence further developed in his works as"mental-consciousness"and"blood-consciousness". Chapter Two to Five take his major works into consideration, namely Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love and Lady Chatterley's Lover, analyzing the man-woman relationship within the scheme of the Lawrentian dualism of opposition/tension.At last the thesis arrives at the conclusion that na?ve as his solution may be, Lawrence is still a valiant writer with foresight and insight.