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Title: D. H. Lawrence


1
D. H. Lawrence
  • Rachel Tseng, Vivian Lu, Claire Su
  • Birdie Chang

2
  • D.H.Lawrence is one of the 20th centurys most
    prominent writers. A novelist, playwright, poet
    and artist, his impact on the way we think about
    love, sex, and cultural decay has been very deep.
    His novels and poetry explore the social ills
    created by the Industrial Revolution and the role
    of sexuality in human relationships. The
    dialectic between man and woman is a chief theme
    in Lawrences work.

3
(From 1885 - 1912)
  • David Herbert Richards Lawrence was born on
    September 11 1885, in a small house in Victoria
    Street, Eastwood, near Nottingham.

4
  • Lawrence's early education was at Greasley
    Beauvale Board School, near Eastwood. (top)
  • Won a scholarship to Nottingham High School
  • Made few friends, Frieda Weekley, his future wife
  • Lawrences father was a miner
  • Brinsley Colliery - source of the Lawrence family
    income. (bottom)

5
Lawrence and Frieda on their wedding day!
  • In January 1911, his first novel, The White
    Peacock was published.
  • At the end of 1911, Lawrence became critically
    ill with pneumonia .
  • Lawrence in Europe

6
Fiction
  • The White Peacock (1911)
  • The Trespasser (1912)
  • Sons and Lovers (1913) - published in Great
    Britain
  • The Rainbow (1915)
  • Women in Love (1920)- a homosexual relationship
    between William Henry Hocking and Lawrence.
  • During his last years Lawrence spent much of
    his time in Italy making only brief visits to
    England, the last in 1926. He died on 2 March
    1930 at Venice in the south of France.

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Fiction
  • The White Peacock (1911)
  • The Trespasser (1912)
  • Sons and Lovers (1913)
  • The Rainbow (1915)
  • Women in Love (1920)
  • The Lost Girl (1920)
  • Aaron's Rod (1922)
  • Kangaroo (1923)
  • The Boy in the Bush (1924)
  • St Mawr (1925)
  • The Plumed Serpent (Quetzalcoatl) (1926)
  • Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)
  • The Escaped Cock (The man who died) (1928/1929)
  • The Virgin and the Gipsy (1930)
  • Mr Noon part I and part II (1984)

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Short Stories
  • The Prussian Officer and other stories (1914)
  • England, My England and other stories (1922)
  • The Ladybird, The Fox, The Captain's doll (1923)
  • Sun (1926)
  • Glad Ghosts (1926
  • The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories (1928)
  • Rawdon's Roof (1929)
  • Love among the Haystacks and Other Pieces (1930)
  • Travel writings
  • Twilight in Italy (1916)
  • Sea and Sardinia (1921)
  • Mornings in Mexico (1927)
  • Etruscan Places (1932)

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Plays
  • The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd (1914)
  • Touch and Go (1920)
  • David (1926)
  • The Fight for Barbara (1933)
  • A Collier's Friday Night (1934)
  • The Married Man (1940)
  • The Merry-go-round (1941)
  • The Complete Plays of D H Lawrence (1965)
  • Reference
  • http//mss.library.nottingham.ac.uk/dhlbiog-chp1.h
    tml
  • http//www.mantex.co.uk/ou/a319/dhl-04.htm

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Summary
  • Part I
  • It was a winter day, the miners, single,
    trailing and in groups, passed diverging home at
    dusk. A woman, Elizabeth Bates, went out and
    watched the miners as they passed along the
    railway. After a moment her son, John, was called
    back to his house. He was unhappy to follow his
    mother. The mother and son stood at the foot of
    the three steps looking across the bay of lines
    of the miners going home. Suddenly, the engine
    stopped opposite the gate.

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  • An old man, Elizabeth Batess father,
    asked a cup of tea from his daughter and talked
    to her about her husbands drunken behavior. She
    felt very bitter. Then, her father left but her
    husband did not come home. At 430 She waited for
    her husband to begin tea in the kitchen. She
    thought her husband probably was drunk and slunk
    past his own door. 445-- She scolded her
    daughter for coming tea late. Her husband didnt
    come home. They sat down to tea and she felt a
    little angry. 540-- She complained of her
    husbands drunk behavior and thought he was drunk
    in the pub. Then, she cleaned the desk. 540-630
    Children played the game and the mother sewed a
    singlet. Her heart burst with anger at their
    father, who caused all three such distresses.
    Then, children went to bed, but their husband
    didnt come home. She was not only angry but
    also fearful.

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  • Part 2
  • 800 Elizabeth Bates went out and looked
    for her husband. She saw a pub and thought her
    husband maybe was in this pub. But, she didnt
    enter. Then, she went to John Rigleys house but
    he was not at home. His wife went out to look for
    her husband and Elizabeth Bates entered their
    house. When they came, John Rigley told her that
    her husband might have still stayed at the pit.
    Then, John Rigley continued to look for Walter
    and Mrs. Bates went home. At 903 She sat and
    listened the sound from the mine and felt uneasy.

13
  • 945 Her mother-in-law went to keep Elizabeth
    company. They both felt uneasy. 1030- Matthews
    and Jim carried Walters corpse into the parlor.
    Walters mother and Elizabeth felt so sad. Then,
    Annie woke up and wanted to see her father, but
    her mother didnt want her to go downstairs.
    After the colliers left, they stripped his
    clothes and washed his dead boy. When they
    touched his body, they had different feelings.
    His mother felt the lie was given to her womb
    the wife felt the utter isolation of the human
    soul, the child within her was weight apart from
    her. At last it was finished. They put clothes on
    him and locked the parlors door. Then, she
    realized something and felt peaceful. Her
    responsibility now is to her children.

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Characters
  • Elizabeth Bates
  • -a Housewife, a tall woman of imperious mien
  • -a handsome woman with definite black eyebrows
  • -a serious mother. (She doesnt allow her son
    to go down at wet brook.)
  • -a pregnant woman. (She is five or six months
    pregnant.)
  • -mother love. (She loves her children.)
  • -serene/calm (When she faces her husbands
    corpse, she keeps from weeping.)
  • -pertinacious (She thinks her husband may just
    stay in a pub, but she refuses to enter.)
  • -genteel (She is better educated than her
    husband.)
  • -neat (When a man knocks off a vase, she picks
    up the broken vase and the flowers quickly)

15
  • Walter
  • -Elizabeth Batess husband who likes drinking
  • -a miner
  • -a man of handsome body (He is blond,
    full-fleshed, with fine limbs.)
  • -a dead body now, half naked, all grimed with
    coal-dust

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  • John
  • -Elizabeth Batess son
  • -a small, sturdy boy of five
  • -with silence and pertinacity (like his mother)
  • -indifference to all but himself (like his
    father)
  • (When he is sullenly struggling with the wood,
    her mother sees his personality from herself and
    his father.)

17
  • Annie
  • -Elizabeth Batess daughter
  • -a solicitous daughter (She shows great
    solicitude about her father.)
  • -a naïve girl. (She likes odor of chrysanthemum
    and thinks fire is beautiful.)

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  • Elizabeth Batess father
  • - the engine-driver
  • - a short man with round gray beard
  • Elizabeth Batess mother-in-law
  • an elderly woman about sixty years old (She has
    wrinkles all of her face.)
  • loves her son, Walter, as most of mothers do.
  • Jealous toward Elizabeth, her daughter-in-law
  • Jack Rigley
  • - a miner
  • - Elizabeth Batess neighbor
  • - a big man (He is with very large bones and
    his head looks particularly bony.)
  • has a blue scar (The scar is across his temple,
    caused by a wound gets in the pit.)
  • uneducated (known from his conversation.)

19
  • Mrs. Rigley
  • a housewife who is Jack Rigleys wife
  • the raw-boned woman, with many children and has
    happy family
  • has many children and has happy family (It is
    from the shoes on the doorway
  • uneducated (It is from her conversation.)
  • Matthews
  • - the manager of the pit
  • - a short, white bearded man
  • - carries Walters corpse
  • Jim
  • a miner
  • carries Walters corpse

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Human Relationship
  • 1. Elizabeth isolated herself from Walter.
  • -She was dissatisfied with her marriage. She
    kept judging her husbands indifference to all
    but himself as a drunkard since their wedding
    ceremony. (2321)
  • what a fool Ive been, what a fool! And this
    is what I came here for, to this dirty hole, rats
    and all, for him to slink past his very door.
    (2321)
  • what a separate stranger he was to her.Each
    time he had taken her, they had been two isolated
    beings, far apart as now (2329)
  • She saw this episode of her life closed. They
    had denied each other in life. (2330)

21
  • --Elizabeth and Walter never tried to comprehend
    each other caused the failure of their marriage
    (2329).
  • she had never seen him, he had never
    seen her, they had met in the dark.Whereas he
    was apart all the while, living as she never
    lived, feeling as she never felt. (line 6)
  • She had denied him what he was- And
    this had been her life, and his life. (line 4)
  • She was a mother- but how awful she knew
    it now to have been a wife.how awful he must
    have felt it to be a husband. (line 6)

22
  • 2. Elizabeth vs. her Mother-in-law
  • Elizabeth and Walter's mother are alike in
    their relationship with their children. They
    reveal mother love and bring great strange
    emotions when touching Walters dead body.
    For example, the mother-in-law keeps crying, but
    feeling the lie was given to her womb. By
    comparison, Elizabeth feels the utter isolation
    of the human soul, the child within her is a
    weight apart from her (2328). She is
    emotionally strong, not only protecting John and
    Annie, but trying to calm her mother-in-law as
    now Walter is dead. (2322, 2326)

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  • However, though the children did not unite she
    and Walter, they are my business, as she said.
    At last, only the children belonged to life,
    this dead man had nothing to do with them. He
    and she were only channels through which life had
    flowed to issue in the children. (2399 line 5)

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(3) Elizabeth revealed her alienation in human
relationship.
  • Elizabeth vs. her father
  • -She didnt expect her fathers care and help.
    (2318)
  • Elizabeth vs. her husband
  • -She never would go into Prince of Wales,
    although she knew her husband might be there.
    (2322)
  • Elizabeth vs. her husbands co-worker
  • -She wouldnt think of brothering Mr. Rigley
    to look for husband. (2323)

25
Thematic Analysis
  • Elizabeths awakening after her husbands death
    She realizes the failure of her marriage and
    starts to think about her identity.
  • -- p. 2329, para. 3, L 8, L10, L15
  • -- p. 2329, para. 4, L 7
  • For Elizabeth, death helps her to see the truth
    of the failed marriage.

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  • Chrysanthemums in Elizabeths mind
  • 1. Chrysanthemums and her attitude towards them
  • --p. 2318, L1 from the top
  • --p. 2327, L3 from the top
  • 2. The times chrysanthemums appear bring
    Elizabeth some good and bad memories
  • -- p.2321, L3 from the top
  • -- p.2326, para.8, L3
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