Lady Chatterley's Lover | Characters
Lawrence's hero Mellors, the gamekeeper, is an outsider, a man of natural intellect and superiority who has chosen to abstain from conventional society lest it corrupt him. In his hut in the woods of the Chatterley estate he lives according to his sympathetic life. Unlike the heroes of Aaron's Rod (1922) or The Plumed Serpent (1926), however, Mellors has no hope of political reform; he is closer to modern-day "back-to-the-landers," and wishes only to live in close communion with nature, apart from society, seeking balance and harmony. In "A Propos of "Lady Chatterley's...
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