RELATIONS OF DOMINANCE AND EQUALITY IN D. H. LAWRENCE

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because of this, this phase is considered as the most balanced
of the three.
The third phase is the one in which Lawrence
deals with the leadership theme and in it the author tends to
defeat the love for his mother in favor of his father.
There is
also a fourth phase, of less importance.
In this final phase
Lawrence reverses his previous values and returns to the love
scheme which has marked his career, without caring to
demonstrate the defeat of the woman.
He actually wants to
reconcile father and mother, but most critics find this late
"return to tenderness" reflects a Lawrence who has weakened not.
only physically, due to tuberculosis,but also artistically.
All these phases are marked by a division in the self.
Mind and body are two separate elements and throughout
Lawrence's career he makes an enormous effort to reconcile these
two elements.
It is a hard battle that goes on within; the author
and a most difficult and persisting battle for the characters
too.
These two forces are seen always in opposition, as if they
could never meet.
Also it can be said that for Lawrence mind is
something related to the woman — always the fair woman, highly
spiritual.
The body is often associated with the dark male, the
sensual lover, always seen as inferior in relation to the strong
heroine.
Review of Criticism
I have the firm impression that critics in general have a
tendency to write criticism not specifically for ordinary
readers.
Their audience is to a certain extent a sophisticated
one. Critics very often write for other critics. Sometimes
their analyses fail to clarify for the common reader what seems