RELATIONS OF DOMINANCE AND EQUALITY IN D. H. LAWRENCE

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263 of lanterns in the Water Party and by the stockings Gudrun gave her. Therefore, both Birkin and Ursula contain elements of decadence counterbalancing their 'silver river of life'. Besides this, the old world has more living representatives than the new one, as I pointed out in the beginning of this analysis. Halliday's group, Gudrun, the pregnant Minette, Loerke, Hermione: they are all alive. I think that the question at the beginning of this paragraph must be rephrased: what are the chances for Birkin and Ursula to survive in such a world of dissolution and corruption? Women in Love, as part of Lawrence's second phase, still shows the persistent conflict between soul and body in the main characters. This division is clearly seen in Hermione and Ursula. body. The former is seen as the soul and the latter as the However, Ursula cannot be said to be a character whose main 'virtue' lies in her sensuality. She seems to be half-body and half-soul. Hermione, on the other hand, is the picture of the strong soulful woman, or another 'dreaming woman' like Helena in The Trespasser. The difference is that Hermione is not a victorious character as the women in Lawrence's first phase. Rupert Birkin is the one who still has trouble in defining whether he wants the soul or the body. But it can be said that in his attempt to build a new life with Ursula, who is not a passive woman nor is she a domineering one, he is trying to find his way. The main problem is that when he broke with Hermione and developed a theory of a relation based on 'star- polarity', in fact he did not know that his practice was not a balanced one but a very chauvinistic one as seen in the chapter "Mino". What he wanted really was a relation of dominance in which the male subjugated the female. His relation with Ursula
264 has been marked by a whole set of disagreements in which no one in fact convinces the other of who is right. The novel also marks the beginning of possible alternatives to the man-to-woman relationship as seen by Birkin's Blutbrtiderschaft to Gerald and the 'female bonding* in the dance performed by the sisters. Also the novel presents the idea that modern love adopts a pattern of sado-masochistic reversal of roles as seen in Minette vs Gerald vs Gudrun. This component of modern love shows that inevitably one partner is defeated: Gerald dies. In this sense the other couple who is supposed to go out of this decadent world - Birkin and Ursula - to build a new one also shows that they contain seeds of corruption which they will carry to their new world. Thus Women in Love shows death and rebirth, but the rebirth is not very promising since decadence is still a strong component in the characters' minds.
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iii A todas as pessoas que ainda a-
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V AGRADECIMENTO ESPECIAL Ao Profess
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vii relationships. Yet, the partner
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ix Lawrence mostra uma tentativa de
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CHAPTER I STATEMENT OF PROBLEM When
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3 because of this, this phase is co
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5 The views of these above mentione
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7 female reader will remember herse
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Millets' tendentious criticism stat
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11 Everyone who writes on Lawrence
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13 As for homosexuality (which Moor
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15 two thirds of the book [Huxley]
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17 in this dissertation. Vivas' vie
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19 lack of evidence to prove his po
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21 text and supported by the text.
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23 kind of bridge for her search. H
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25 As for the affair between Gudrun
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27 a position Lawrence could not de
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29 the love of the powerful mother,
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31 can be associated with Dr Franks
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33 indifferent to human life. Yet h
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35 he says "Yet at the end, when Ci
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37 spiritual, or aggressive women a
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CHAPTER II THE PATTERN OF CONFLICT
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41 and mind superiority. She is wha
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43 father was serving beer in a pub
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45 the control the whole family wit
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eturning home drunken and certainly
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to reconcile the children with the
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more persuasive to her sons in the
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succeed in life. This is an unconsc
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to strengthen the relation. This me
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eally wants. He goes from one decis
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prefers to think of death instead o
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61 mutual acceptance between them.
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63 implies definitely the mother's
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65 William. He dies. Mrs Morel's li
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67 reserve. And on such occasions h
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69 to go out of it and he has on on
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71 failure. She is losing her son t
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73 more are related to his impotenc
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75 Clara. The idea is that through
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77 was the marital failure? Who was
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he can have pleasure. Miriam is for
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who she is and what she wants. The
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This is like Paul's passion for Cla
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operate on her, since her heart wou
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87 'Let's make a sacrifice of Arabe
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characteristics as she had. in what
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My last point about Sons and Lovers
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93 relation unbearable up to the po
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95 teacher Siegmund. He is a marrie
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97 and strong, and fully fruited, h
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99 though Siegmund wants her, she r
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101 an analogy for Helena. Siegmund
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103 any of the relationships, nor c
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105 Helena's sharpness, and will-to
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107 like him: She glanced up at Sie
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109 Siegmund, usually a bad swimmer
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Ill the moon:"Rocked thus on his st
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113 connotation in his mind) . In f
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115 is to warn Siegmund of the dang
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117 ... For centuries a certain typ
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119 she alone will not bear the gui
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121 The idea which is implicit here
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123 not see it. He bowed in obedien
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125 laurels of having given Siegmun
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128 as always, is not aware of Sieg
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130 on her hat, her eyes, gazing he
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132 to perforin the action. The nar
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134 extreme splits of soul/body. 'B
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136 prepares the path to the other.
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138 connection with the land. This
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140 Tom proposes marriage to Lydia:
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142 They looked at each other, a de
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144 of taking a mistress because "t
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and thinks of them "as if they were
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148 actualy loves or hates. The mix
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15 0 Will is an artist and his conc
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15 2 light of the moon covering Ann
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154 pleasure, but as soon as the no
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in the night they were gathering sh
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is like a dwarf without power. exul
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everything: life and death. He is c
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take hers: but in her own way" (ibi
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164 family the inarticulate sorrow
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much violence. Thus, her love for h
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168 time she walked in a confused h
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170 'separateness' is seen in Women
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172 destroying in people the creati
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174 Paul at this time, encounters t
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176 be a complete human being in th
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178 mistress and her uncle because
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180 When she leaves the school her
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182 dead. The only part of him whic
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184 Ursula first refused him cried
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186 the self Which has made Ursula
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188 compete with her. In fact Skreb
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CHAPTER IV 1 WOMEN IN LOVE: THE PRO
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192 world is a world of dust which
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194 knowledge, breaks out with hars
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up to this. One of them refers to H
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198 because he is no 'clone', no sl
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200 London bohemianism which Birkin
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202 dominant figure in the affair.
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204 course startles Gerald who cann
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206 in the expectancy to find a 'fo
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208 On the other hand, Lawrence giv
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210 they never did in Thomas Crich'
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320 my soul. Let me close my prying
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330 himself, his nakedness, his min
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332 is no beyond" and where only me
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346 to that fatal place. Another fa
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348 Byrne's last speech implies tha
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350 There is a basic hostility in a
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352 him. The turning to the city al
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35 4- being. In fourth place comes
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"358- following novels. Women in Lo
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360 The very end of the novel shows
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262 in the end of Women in Love ill
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366 wanted her to give herself with
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368 he can do no more in his own vo
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37-2- don't'". Her reply to this do
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37-4 the masculine side. Also, anot
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376 Ursula, in a rejected fragment
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37.8 a personality to compete with
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380 the one which shows the most su
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stories show his internal conflict
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384 perfect union in human beings
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386 Lawrence, D.H. Sons and Lovers,
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