The Plumed Serpent (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- First Published: 1926
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: Twentieth century
- Setting: Mexico
- Principal Characters: Kate Leslie, Don Ramón Carrasco, General Cipriano Viedma, Doña Carlota, Teresa, Owen Rhys
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Sex or sexuality, Twentieth century, Religion, Spiritual life or spirituality, Emotions, Mexico or Mexicans, Reincarnation, Ireland or Irish people
- Locales: Mexico City, Mexico, Jalisco, Mexico
The Story:
Kate Leslie was the widow of an Irish patriot. Restless after her husband’s death, she had gone to Mexico with Owen Rhys, her American cousin. Mexico, however, oppressed her. Dark and secretive, the arid land weighed upon her spirit like a sense of doom. She saw it as a country of poverty, brutality, and bloodshed.
Owen and one of his friends took her to a bullfight. It was a distressing experience, for to her the ritual of death was like modern Mexico, vulgar and cruel, without muster or passion. She was unable to endure the spectacle and the reek of warm...
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