Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Magill Book Reviews)
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- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- First Published: 1928
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Class conflict, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Marriage, Manners or customs, 1910’s, 1920’s, England or English people, War, Adultery, Illegitimacy, London, Ethics, Disabilities or physically challenged persons, Pollution, Industrialization
- Locales: London, England, Venice, Italy, Dresden, Germany
The three main characters represent strikingly different attitudes toward love. Clifford Chatterley has been horribly wounded in World War I, paralyzed from the waist down and confined to a wheelchair. Even before the war he was repressed, but the war dramatically turns him into an obvious symbol of what repels Lawrence in modern life: the cold and dry life of the mind. As a captain of industry and an authoritarian technologist, Clifford ironically becomes an ally of the very forces that crippled him.
Connie Chatterley is repressed in a much more subtle way. She grows up in the...
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