Jan 1, 2010
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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