RELATIONS OF DOMINANCE AND EQUALITY IN D. H. LAWRENCE

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actualy loves or hates.
The mixture of feelings for his parents
anticipates the kind of relation he is going to have with Anna.
The idea of extreme feelings in polarized flux is somehow
disconcerting, but in fact they mean that the author could not
well define which of them is more meaningful to him.
Love and
hate are too close to make a clear distinction.
These confused
feelings also occur in Sons and Lovers and The Trespasser;
Paul
Morel, for instance, is always going from love to hate in his
relation with Miriam and Clara.
Cecyl Burne also loves Helena
but his love reverses to hate when he unconsciously associates
the woman's affair with Siegmund with something destructive.
Thus, the idea of polarized flux is very frequent in Lawrence's
characters.
Will starts courting Anna. In order to do this he tries to
please both his uncle and aunt: Will "worked in the garden to
propitiate . his uncle.
He talked churches to propitiate his
aunt" (p.115).
This may imply two things:a lack of self-will
and self-confidence or it implies Will's cleverness: he is like
a shrewd fox who gets what he wants by stratagem.
His way of
courting Anna leads one to sense his implicit dependence on the
woman: "He followed Anna like a shadow: like a long, persistent,
unswerving black shadow he went after the girl" (ibid).
This
fact shows Will's early dependence on the strong, modern woman
Anna represents.
Besides this, there is also a feeling that Will
is like a predatory creature.
Anna soon shows her control over the young man.
She
realizes she is passionately in love with Will and she finds a
way of telling him of her love.
Once Will is talking to her
parents and Anna, unable to be distant from him, provides an
excuse to go to the barn with him.
Even though her father tells