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Lady Chatterley's Lover
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Among The Ruins
In the opening lines of Lady Chatterly’s Lover(1928) D.H. Lawrence writes “the cataclysm has happened; we are among the ruins; we start to build up new little habitats and to have new little hopes.” -Jeffrey Meyers, Joseph Conrad: A Biography, John Murray Publications Ltd., London, 1991, p.173. We did start to build so unostentatiously the world did not even know. For the building of new little habitats, which he tended so lovingly from so far away, (as They had tended that Force of enormous power as best They could, back then) seemed, by then, by those years between the wars was canalized into an Administrative System, through an Instrument expressed in points of light, spreading slowly, so slowly, in new little hopes, during a hiatus period* among the ruins** with the Zeal of the Lord leading us, tender, green and verdant. Ron Price 12 September1999 * the period 1921 to 1936 is often referred to as a hiatus period, a waiting period, during which the Guardian was laying the foundation for the Administrative system, a system which would canalize the international teaching program in the years after 1937. ** the ruins, of course, are the ruins after WWI.
Posted By Ron Price at Mon 7 Jan 2008, 9:26 AM in Lady Chatterley's Lover || 1 Reply
lady Chatterley - D.H.LAWRENCE
thums up:thumbs_up It is intense,persuasive and like a spell it carries you along with it. Lady Chatterely's lover is a hymn to love and describes the oneness between a man and a woman.
Posted By Julietm at Mon 27 Aug 2007, 11:29 PM in Lady Chatterley's Lover || 0 Replies
Transcendent Sex
Lady Chatterley’s Lover is more about transcendence than it is love or sex. You notice right away that Connie and Oliver rarely talk to each other, and when they do, it is because the world is impinging on them, either in their own thoughts or through some reality that they have experienced while apart. Oliver has a further, distancing tactic: the use of his Derbyshire dialect, which makes him almost incomprehensible to Connie and Clifford. By contrast, Connie and Clifford do nothing BUT talk! Instead, Oliver and Connie create a sacred space. They perform sacred acts within that space, and through a series of transforming sexual encounters each becomes the archetypal male and female, culminating in their union- the marriage of John Thomas and Lady Jane – a union of transcendent souls. Human beings cannot remain in a state of perpetual transcendence. The question then becomes, what do you do with the experience? How do you integrate your higher, sacred self into your mundane, profane life? And in their case, having merged their souls, how does their union find a way in the world? By the end of the final chapter, you are deeply relieved to read in Oliver’s letter, written in plain English, his credo. It is the longest string of words he has put together about his experience, and you are relieved that is has such deep and abiding meaning to him. But, you are also a little disappointed, that he and Connie have had their relationship forced into this intellectualizing, explaining place, where description and hope must stand in for experience. And whenever you think of this book again, you will see them still in the winter, frozen in time, waiting and hoping for spring.
Posted By WOLF1462 at Fri 20 Jul 2007, 2:21 PM in Lady Chatterley's Lover || 2 Replies
sex and marriage
According to Lady Chatterley's Lover,D.H. Lawrence seems to want to alter the serious situation of man and woman under the advanced and civilized material world by inviting another relationship between man and woman. In his opinion, sex and love should be in harmony.However,more and more marriages are lack of love and less favorable sex. If one loves another, they must have made sex,but they may not get married. What's the situation nowadays? More and more divorce can tell us something at least.
Posted By godhelpme2 at Thu 22 Mar 2007, 7:38 AM in Lady Chatterley's Lover || 6 Replies
What is Passion
What is life and what is passion in our life.
We feel very tiny wind in our mind through this book.We are walking through various kinds of atmosphere,which is not always easy to solve.
Through LOve,we feel we are living one.
Without love,we lose point of our life.
We have to live as like real creature,
Our culture and our novel gives us points to be considered.
You can have best impression through this kind of leading novel,which should stayed around us for a long time period .
Gook luck for all reader!
Posted By silver moon at Tue 24 May 2005, 5:07 PM in Lady Chatterley's Lover || 0 Replies
honesty
Unquestionable, one of the most important books
of the 20th century.
WHY?
Because, in my opinion, it begins to set THINGS
strait. About how PEOPLE really feel and what
they think and respond to touchy matters: about
how life is to many people around-the-world!
I would appreciate comments, before I expound!!
Yours in truth...
Dag
Posted By Dag Stomberg at Tue 24 May 2005, 5:07 PM in Lady Chatterley's Lover || 0 Replies
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Indeed, an importaint book even in our time. D.H. Lawrence describes the life of an upper-class Lady whoes husband became paralized from his waist and down during the war. Not that her sex-life had much at the beginning with either. Lawrence takes you to see her life as a woman, under-rated by the men's society where her sexuality is limited only to the satification of men. But when she engages in a sexual relationship with the gamekeeper, she finds out she is truly the one denying herself the pleasure, not visa versa.
I read this book yesterday, after finding a 1953 copy in my shelf. I sat down and read it...and couldn't stop. A beautiful language, charming scenes and (in our time) not so shocking sexual scenes makes this a very beautiful book. The humour in this book is also nice. Like Mallors and his talk about Lady Jane and John Thomas, or the long talks they had. After a while you understand that Lady Chatterley is much inexperienced, despite her experience, so to speak. Her fascination over the naked male body is stunning and you realise just how much she has been denied to see. She is taken aback by the beauty of the male body and the gamekeeper is taken aback by the beauty of her female body. This book matters much in our time, because it teaches about what life is really about. Exploring and taking chances, as well as doing what you can to be happy.
This book is terrific and should be read over and over again. And the film is good as well and captures the beauty of the writing...highly recommendable.
Posted By Anne at Tue 24 May 2005, 5:07 PM in Lady Chatterley's Lover || 0 Replies
Great Book
I love the book very much. I know how Oliver Mellors felt about Lady Chatterley. I myself know what is like to fall inlove with somebody, who is married. You feel the whole world is agaisn you, just like Oliver Mellors felt when his old wife came to Wragby and wanted him back. To be honest, yes, I am inlove with married woman now. Me in her keep in touch thru the internet. I told her that I was reading "Lady Chatterley's Lover". She hasn't respond to it.
The novel shows a part a women that we don't see in movies today. Connie is madly inlove with Mellors. Normaly we see the male character of novel or movie who is madly inlove, and the woman who has her doubts.
Posted By Carlos Ceja at Tue 24 May 2005, 5:07 PM in Lady Chatterley's Lover || 0 Replies
god book
i agree that this book is very facinating.i see the movie too. it can show how humanity the people are.i teach this book to my students.if you have a chance ,read it by yourself.
Posted By tong at Tue 24 May 2005, 5:07 PM in Lady Chatterley's Lover || 0 Replies
god book
i agree that this book is very facinating.i see the movie too. it can show how humanity the people are.i teach this book to my students.if you have a chance ,read it by yourself.
Posted By tong at Tue 24 May 2005, 5:07 PM in Lady Chatterley's Lover || 1 Reply