Women in Love by D H Lawrence
Asian Social Science
March, 2010
The Reinvention of Love in D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love
Jianjun Zheng Foreign Language Department South China Institute of Software Engineering, Guangzhou University Guangzhou 510990, China E-mail: georgezjj80@126.com Abstract Women in Love is interpreted as a novel of relationships between man and woman, man and nature, and mind and body. D. H. Lawrence’s point of view on these relationships finds its best expression through the perspective of psychology and symbolism. It also suggests regenerating natural and inexorable relationships between man and woman, and man and nature to explore the mystery of life. Keywords: Man and woman, Psychology, Symbolism, Characters British literary critic F. R. Leavis in his great literary work D. H. Lawrence: Novelist tells that The Rainbow and Women in Love can prove D. H. Lawrence is one of the greatest literary artists, and Lawrence is a modern novelist and uses a lot of modern writing techniques to mode the characters. Women in Love is especially a book which “has artistic form more contrary to nature and meaningful structure”. The characters in the novel are extraordinary in their personalities which are closely related to the bible and have symbolic meanings. Women in Love is one of Lawrence’s masterpieces and also one of the important novels in the 20th century. Nevertheless, this novel is difficult to thoroughly comprehend and analyze Lawrence’s art in novel writing. Another aspect is that different readers interpret it in different perspectives. Many readers try to understand it from a modernistic point of view and attach much importance to the writing styles and through which to reflect the characters and to exhibit one of the themes of the novel—the reinvention of love of the characters. In Women in Love, Lawrence uses a different technique which is contrary to the traditional to arrange the structure of the novel so as to achieve his goal. It is true that the narrative
March, 2010
The Reinvention of Love in D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love
Jianjun Zheng Foreign Language Department South China Institute of Software Engineering, Guangzhou University Guangzhou 510990, China E-mail: georgezjj80@126.com Abstract Women in Love is interpreted as a novel of relationships between man and woman, man and nature, and mind and body. D. H. Lawrence’s point of view on these relationships finds its best expression through the perspective of psychology and symbolism. It also suggests regenerating natural and inexorable relationships between man and woman, and man and nature to explore the mystery of life. Keywords: Man and woman, Psychology, Symbolism, Characters British literary critic F. R. Leavis in his great literary work D. H. Lawrence: Novelist tells that The Rainbow and Women in Love can prove D. H. Lawrence is one of the greatest literary artists, and Lawrence is a modern novelist and uses a lot of modern writing techniques to mode the characters. Women in Love is especially a book which “has artistic form more contrary to nature and meaningful structure”. The characters in the novel are extraordinary in their personalities which are closely related to the bible and have symbolic meanings. Women in Love is one of Lawrence’s masterpieces and also one of the important novels in the 20th century. Nevertheless, this novel is difficult to thoroughly comprehend and analyze Lawrence’s art in novel writing. Another aspect is that different readers interpret it in different perspectives. Many readers try to understand it from a modernistic point of view and attach much importance to the writing styles and through which to reflect the characters and to exhibit one of the themes of the novel—the reinvention of love of the characters. In Women in Love, Lawrence uses a different technique which is contrary to the traditional to arrange the structure of the novel so as to achieve his goal. It is true that the narrative
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