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Civilisation, marriage and tenderness in D.H.

Lawrence's novel "Lady Chatterley's Lover"
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Titel:
Civilisation, marriage and tenderness in D.H. Lawrence's novel "Lady Chatterley's Lover"

Veranstaltung:
Proseminar: Pastoral Novels
Institution / Hochschule:
Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universitt Wrzburg (Anglistik)
Autor:
Katrin Daum
Archivnummer:
V117115
ISBN (eBook):
978-3-640-19512-1
ISBN (Buch):
978-3-640-19517-6
DOI:
10.3239/9783640195121
Dateigre:
105 KB

Kategorie:
Seminararbeit
Jahr:
2008
Seiten:
15
Bibliografie:
~ 6 Eintrge
Note:
2,0
Sprache:
Deutsch

Anmerkungen :
Die Seminararbeit "Civilisation, marriage and tenderness in D.H. Lawrence's novel Lady
Chatterley's Lover" zeichnet sich durch einen guten Aufbau der Argumentation und einen sehr
flssigen, adquaten Sprachgebrauch aus. Leider wird in der Argumentation nur auf textinerne
Elemente zurckgegriffen, die zwar Lawrences Gesellschaftskritik verdeutlichen, ohne jedoch
einen Vergleichsmastab zu gebrauchen. Es htte sich angeboten entweder auf die behandelten
Texte von Ruskin (The Sesame and the Lilies) oder auf Lawrences Studie ber Thomas Hardy
zurckzugreifen, [...]
Schlagworte:

Zusammenfassung / Abstract

When the first version of Lady Chatterleys Lover was published in 1926, the readers had been
shocked, because it was about sex. Since then there have been various speculations, books and
articles about if there was more to this book than sex and there certainly is. The term paper
concentrates on three main aspects: civilisation, marriage and tenderness. I chose three points of
criticism of society, namely the war, the class system and industrialisation. In the chapter
marriage, I decided to focus mainly on the Chatterleys marriage and the relation between
Connie and Mellors, though also the couples Ted and Ivy Bolton and Mellors and Bertha Coutts
come up shortly. For the last point in this term paper, I grouped the aspects of Connies relations
before she had met Mellors and her relation with him. In this last chapter, I tried not to give too
many examples to show in which way the two lovers behave tenderly, but I rather attempted to
give an overview over their relationship and the ramifications of tenderness for them.

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Universitt Wrzburg
Neuphilologisches Institut / Anglistik
Wintersemester 2007 / 2008
Proseminararbeit:
Civilisation, marriage and tenderness in D.H.
Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover
Proseminar: Pastoral Novels
10.04.2008
von
Katrin Daum
Englisch / Franzsisch
2. Semester

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2
Contents
1
Introduction ... 3
2
Civilisation ... 3
2.1
The First World War ... 3
2.2
The Class System ... 4
2.3
Industrialisation ... 6
3
Marriage ... 8
4
Tenderness... 10
4.1
Connie and her Lover in Germany, Michaelis and Clifford ... 10
4.2
Connie and Mellors ... 11
5
Conclusion... 13
6
Bibliography... 14

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3
1
Introduction
When the first version of Lady Chatterley's Lover was published in 1926, the readers
had been shocked, because it was about sex. Since then there have been various speculations,
books and articles about if there was more to this book than sex and there certainly is.
The term paper concentrates on three main aspects: civilisation, marriage and
tenderness. I chose three points of criticism of society, namely the war, the class system and
industrialisation. In the chapter `marriage', I decided to focus mainly on the Chatterley's
marriage and the relation between Connie and Mellors, though also the couples Ted and Ivy
Bolton and Mellors and Bertha Coutts come up shortly. For the last point in this term paper, I
grouped the aspects of Connie's relations before she had met Mellors and her relation with
him. In this last chapter, I tried not to give too many examples to show in which way the two
lovers behave tenderly, but I rather attempted to give an overview over their relationship and
the ramifications of tenderness for them.
2
Civilisation
2.1
The First World War
The consequences of the First World War for Constance Chatterley were not only a
husband, Clifford, who was physically paralysed from the waist downwards and impotent, but
whose soul was also damaged. At first glance, everything appeared `normal': Clifford was a
famous author, liked receiving friends at Wragby Hall, the family seat, enjoyed having
conversations with them and his wife, and was fond of going out for a walk in his motor-chair
in the nearby wood. But in one of their discussions, Connie noticed
[...] one of the great laws of the human soul: that when the emotional
soul receives a wounding shock, which does not kill the body, the soul seems
to recover as the body recovers. But this is only appearance. It is, really, only
the mechanism of reassumed habit. Slowly, slowly the wound to the soul
begins to make itself felt, like a bruise which only slowly deepens its terrible
ache, till it fills all the psyche. And when we think we have recovered and
forgotten, it is then that the terrible after-effects have to be encountered at their
worst. (49)
1
For her, at the age of 23, it was not easy to handle this situation as she had to face it
everyday and there was nothing to distract her at Wragby Hall except the conversations with
Clifford's friends which soon started to bore her, too.
1
All the numbers given in brackets after quotations refer to the number of the page in the primary text:
Lawrence, D. H.: Lady Chatterley's Lover. London: Penguin Classics, 2006.

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4
It seemed to her that "[a]ll the great words [...] were cancelled for her generation:
love, joy, happiness, home, [...]." (62) She suffered, because she failed to live happily with
her husband, inwardly searching for the meaning of her life without yet knowing it. Lawrence
gives the explication for her sentiments himself: "It is the day after."
2
Connie's generation
was the one who survived the First World War and who had to deal with the after-effects of it.
Even the very beginning of the novel tells us that "[o]urs is essentially a tragic age [...]." (5)
Nevertheless, Connie will find her true love Mellors, whereas Clifford is going to be
abandoned by his wife. So when the novel develops, it becomes clear that he is regarding
interpersonal relations actually the tragic figure.
On the one hand, one could lay all the blame for Clifford's destiny in the hands of the
war, but this would be too easy. He's certainly not the poor figure that doesn't know how to
live on, as becomes clear when his person developed with Mrs Bolton's help. But who knows
how the Chatterley's marriage would have evolved without the war? Perhaps they would have
lived happily together until the end of their days. But for Lawrence there would have been no
necessity to write about a happy couple. He wanted to criticize the war and its consequences
for human lives. In Doris Lessing's eyes, Lady Chatterley's Lover is even "one of the most
powerful anti-war novels ever written."
3
2.2
The Class System
Clifford, as the owner of the collieries in Tevershall, was responsible for the workers.
His idea was, that the aristocracy "has given the colliers all they have that's worth having: all
their political liberty, and their education, such as it is, their sanitation, their health-conditions,
their books, their music, everything." (181)
On the one hand, he felt superior to them, as he was a member of the upper class. He
had "power" (108) over them. In his eyes, "they are not men. They are animals [...]" (182)
and "he saw them as objects rather than men" (15). "The masses have been ruled since time
began, and till time ends, rules they will have to be." (183) His duty was to rule them and to
give them work. Apart from that he didn't care for them.
On the other hand, "he was just a bit frightened of the vast hordes of middle and
lower-class humanity, and of foreigners not of his own class." (10) This could be explained
by the fact that he was crippled and the workers were physically in better condition than he
was. Perhaps it had even something to do with him not being able to go wherever he would
2
Lawrence, David Herbert. "A Propos of `Lady Chatterley's Lover'." In: Lawrence, David Herbert. Lady
Chatterley's Lover
. London: Penguin Classics, 2006.
3
Lessing, Doris: "Introduction." In: Lawrence, David Herbert. Lady Chatterley's Lover. London: Penguin
Classics, 2006. P. XXI.
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