RELATIONS OF DOMINANCE AND EQUALITY IN D. H. LAWRENCE

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happenings was dead on her, and she was like a
corpse. But away inside her a new light was
burning, the light of her innermost soul...
Ramon had lighted [her soul]. And once it
was lighted the world went hollow and dead, all
the world-activities were empty weariness to
her. Her soul! Her frail, innermost soul! She
wanted to live its life, not her own life (p.337).
That seems why she decides to stay in Mexico: to revive her soul.
This new self is apparently what she wants.
interferes and puts Kate in Cipriano's arms.
However, Lawrence
He who is no soul,
no spirit.
He, a man who is only flesh and blood! The
narrative is then a tug-of-war between Kate's fearful wish to
live by her soul and Lawrence who is pulling her towards a
purely carnal relation.
Once, when Kate has saved Ramon from
dying, she thinks that he has lost much blood and that "she too,
in other ways, had been drained of the blood of the body.
She
felt bloodless and powerless" (ibid).
Here Lawrence takes the
advantage of Kate being 'bloodless and powerless' and pulls
Cipriano to her: "... the new blood would come.
One day
Cipriano came..." (ibid).
Lawrence is indeed forcing a meeting
of Kate and Cipriano as if to say that Kate cannot live by her
soul, but only by her body.
It seems that she does not deserve
Ram5n.
He is not for her.
Ramon's life with Dona Carlota is very different from Kate
and Joachim's.
The main and big trouble with Ramon's marriage
is that in ideas he differs from his wife.
She is in some
aspects, as I pointed out before, very similar to Mrs Morel.
Carlota is another soulful woman, a fierce defender of her
children against their father.
Here there is a difference in
the quality of her defense in relation to Mrs Morel's: Carlota
defends her children against Ramon's ideas.
The poor father of
Sons and Lovers can hardly be called a man of thought.
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