DEATH OF D.H. LAWRENCE
David Herbert Richards Lawrence, was an English writer of novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, paintings, translations, literary criticism, and personal letters.
He was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England on 11th September 1885.
In his works, Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality, spontaneity, human sexuality and instinct.
Lawrence’s opinions earned him many enemies, and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work, throughout the second half of his life.
At the time of his death on 2nd March 1930, his public reputation was that of a pornographer, who had wasted his considerable talents.
Lawrence is best-known for his erotic novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
Published in 1928, during the straightlaced reign of George V and Mary of Teck, it was banned for obscenity in some countries.
By the late 50’s, early 60’s, it was well known and back on the shelves of bookstores, but still causing controversy among the male population.
The use of four letter words, fornication and adultery, led many men to question, whether it was suitable reading material for their wives!
In papers published after his death, D.H. Lawrence called Lady Chatterley’s Lover, a book of life.
Lawrence believed the way to be fully alive, was through sExual maturity.
LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER-
The story concerns a young married woman, Constance (Lady Chatterley), whose upper-class Baronet husband, Sir Clifford Chatterley, described as a handsome, well-built man, is paralysed from the waist down because of a Great War injury.
In addition to Clifford’s physical limitations, his emotional neglect of Constance forces distance between the couple.
Into the void of Connie’s life comes Oliver Mellors, the gamekeeper on Clifford’s estate.
After several chance meetings in which Mellors keeps her at arm’s length, reminding her of the class distance between them, they meet by chance at a hut in the forest, where they have sEx.
This happens on several occasions, but still Connie manages to remain profoundly separate from him, despite their physical closeness.
To her, its just a sExual need she has, and Mellors meets that requirement.
One day, Connie and Mellors meet by coincidence in the woods, and they have sEx on the forest floor. This time, they experience simultaneous orgAsms, which is a new and profoundly moving experience for Connie.
She begins to adore Mellors above everything else, feeling that they have connected on some deep sensual level.
They grow progressively closer, connecting on a primordial physical level, as woman and man, and their passionate love affair continues.
Connie goes away to Venice for a vacation.
While she is gone, Mellors’ old wife returns.
Connie returns to find that Mellors has been fired as a result of the negative rumors spread about him by his resentful wife, against whom he has initiated divorce proceedings.
Connie admits to Clifford that she is pregnant with Mellors’ baby, but Clifford refuses to give her a divorce.
The novel ends with Mellors working on a farm, waiting for his divorce, and Connie living with her sister, also waiting – in the hope that, in the end, they will be together…..
The book has spawned many films and tv adaptations, most notably the 1993 series starring Joely Richardson as Connie, and Sean Bean as Mellors.
The latest film aired in December 22, and stars Emma Corrin & Jack O’Connel.
Is it art or filth?
You decide……
