RELATIONS OF DOMINANCE AND EQUALITY IN D. H. LAWRENCE

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'For heaven's sake let me get out of this, and
back to simple human people. I loathe the very
sound of Quetzalcoatl and Huitzilopochtli. I
would die rather than be mixed up in it any more.
Horrible, really, both Cipriano and Ramõn. And
they want to put it over me, with their highflown
bunk, and their Malintzi. I am Kate
Forrester, really. I am neither Kate Leslie
nor Tylor. I am sick of these men putting names
over me. I was born Kate Forrester, and I shall
die Kate Forrester. I want to go home. Loathsome,
really, to be called Malintzi - I've had it put
over m e ' (p.407).
The point is that Kate has realized that this goddess Malintzi
is only a small and insignificant thing between the two great
gods. And sandwiched as Malintzi all she can do is submit. She
rebels.
The other shift of the story is that Ramon is not satisfied
with his communion with Cipriano because he suddenly appears
married again to a dark woman named Teresa whom he has saved
from her exploitative brothers.
Teresa, unlike the soulful Kate
and Carlota, lives through Ramõn and has no proper self.
When
Kate comes to know Ramon's new wife, all she feels is envy for
Teresa.
In fact all she wants is to be in Teresa's place: not
to submit but to have the man she secretly loves with her.
However,
at the same time that she perceives that Ramõn now
looks like a Sultan (perhaps in parallel with Birkin looking
like a Pharaoh after he has taken his 'dark knowledge' of Ursula
in the chapter "Excurse") and she resents his appearance, in
fierce opposition against the man:
And for a second Kate envied Teresa. The next
second, she despised her. 'The harem type -'
Well, it was Ramon's nature to be a sort of
Sultan...
'Harem tricks I' said Kate to herself. And she
was somewhat impatient, seeing the big, portentous
Ramõn enveloped in the toils of this dark little