Dh Lawrence Novel Study

The chapter I of my dissertation deals with the introductory part which includes a detail study on D.H. Lawrence’s life, his carrier, how he came into writing such prodigious novels. Some of them are the ones which I have included in my dissertation like Sons and Lovers and Lady Chatterley’s Lover. So hereby the first chapter also includes a short glimpse of these novels in particular and also the effect it brought in D.H. Lawrence’s life. The prolific writer, D.H. Lawrence is one of the 19th century's most important and controversial writers and poets, born in Eastwood, he was the son of a miner and much of his works influence was born in Nottinghamshire. His most famous works include 'Women in Love', 'Sons and Lovers' and 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'. Born in 1885 on Victoria Street, Eastwood he felt he was an outsider in his school, speculation as to why this was, is suggested as because he was educated to a higher degree than many in his town by his lower-middle class mother, who herself fell into the working class when her family lost their wealth.

Despite his father's hopes, Lawrence knew from an early age he would not become a miner like so many others in the mining town he grew up in, instead he went on to first become a teacher, it was during this time that he made important contacts that propelled his literary career to success. Lawrence was deemed controversial by some as his work challenged the accepted values of society at the time.

An example of this can be seen in the paintings which are displayed in Nottingham, these paintings are very tamed, but 85-years-ago they were considered obscene and unacceptable which earned Lawrence his reputation of a rebel. Unfortunately, D.H. Lawrence when he was 44-years-old. He l...

... middle of paper ...

...ws, he is nonetheless celebrated for his trenchant insights into the deepest impulses of life, his devotion to illuminating human passion, and his original perspective on the problems posed by human relationships.

There is a loss of faith in the idea of ‘progress’, this is the idea that we are gradually heading along the one true pathway towards certain universal goals, which forms the full picture of knowledge, or equality and justice. Instead, there is an emphasis on multiple pathways and plurality; on diversity and difference; and on the partiality of all knowledge, that is, the idea that we can only have an incomplete picture, and the idea that all knowledge is biased. Change is seen, not as a linear progression, but as a series of networks and flows, connections and reconnections that, because there is formation and re-formation which can never be solidified.