RELATIONS OF DOMINANCE AND EQUALITY IN D. H. LAWRENCE

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widow, you weeping mother, you impeccable wife, you just woman...
Oh die! - die! - die! Die and be a thousand times dead! Do
nothing but utterly die!'" (p.381).
The point is perhaps that
both men, Ramon and Cipriano, have united themselves against the
female, their soul-enemy.
It may also be observed that Cipriano
is by Carlota's death bed, rather than Ramon himself.
Ramon
would not (perhaps) have thrown at Carlota so many harsh words
and as he is not there, Cipriano replaces him to condemn Carlota.
Through Carlota's death Ramon frees himself.
Now he does
not belong to any woman, nor does he belong to his own children.
As soon as the mother dies, Ramon dispenses with the children
.because he does not want them near him.
Father and children
have a quarrel and Ramon even compels his children to live apart
from him.
The religion of Quetzalcoatl is at the surface of
their separation but in fact what makes Ramon leave his sons is
his hatred for what they represent.
They are a living part of
Carlota's ideals and as they do not match Ramon's, he despises
his children as an extension of his hatred for Carlota.
The
children are part of his past, of his old self and as he wants
a new self, he turns the page of his dark past to open up the
promising bright page of his future as the God Quetzalcoatl.
2. Meeting the new self: the marriage of opposites
Ram5n once said that "'There is no such thing as liberty.
You only change one sort of domination for another... liberty is
a change of chains'" (pp.77-8) and, although he has directed his
words to social politics, they may also be connected with love
relations.
There are at least three moments to which I want to