RELATIONS OF DOMINANCE AND EQUALITY IN D. H. LAWRENCE

II
"THE FOX" - THE SEARCH FOR FEMALENESS VS THE SUPREMACY OF THE
MALE.
I believe that Lawrence in "The Fox" is raising these
points:
- whether the awakening of femaleness means the loss of
self control and masochism in women, or
- whether the supremacy of the male over the female is
due to the kind of trickeries men use to achieve this
goal.
The answer is certainly ambiguous for when readers get to
the end of the novella, there is a strong feeling of
unfulfilment in both man and woman.
It is not my intention here
to side with anybody-neither female nor male.
The novella
itself can be read in different ways: if you side with Henry
(the prototype for the chauvinist male) you certainly will keep
the fearful expectation that in the near future he will
definitely have March under his complete power: selfless, robotlike,
simply a soulless body ready to say 'yes' or 'no' as soon
as her master snaps his fingers.
On the other hand, if you side
with March (the prototype for the half-awakened female) you will