RELATIONS OF DOMINANCE AND EQUALITY IN D. H. LAWRENCE

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convictions has pain in the voice.
And he does. Even the
future seems to be far away in the distance.
No. Up to the very
end of the novella no one can say that it is March or Henry who
is the owner of the truth.
March can or cannot close her eyes
and become his shadow.
Lawrence till the last moment is not
sure if he wants March to submit to Henry.
This ending is
perhaps the most ambiguous of the three exactly because there is
no real verbalization of the conflict between the characters.
There is only an internalization of it and, furthermore, the
conflict comes, as I have shown, through the author's voice, not
from the characters'.
This may imply that neither March nor
Henry know themselves in the way Birkin and Ursula do.
In the next novel, a concluding dialogue .
. also marks
Lawrence's indecisiveness. However, in The Plumed Serpent there
is a strong feeling that Lawrence indeed wants to force the
heroine of the story to surrender to the male power in her
husband.
The problem with this novel is the unconvincing tone
in which the author preaches his intention.
There are at least
three reasons Why this occurs.
First, Kate's new self demands a communion with soul and
the author forces her to marry a perverse man who has no soul.
Cipriano only exercises the power of his dark love in terms of
his sadism. Kate is denied sexual pleasure because her husband
does not allow her to have it (one may say that Cipriano practices
what Henry preached to March).
Furthermore, Kate is seen as if
she had accepted punishment in submitting to the 'dark God' in
Cipriano.
orgasm.
The idea is that she, as a woman, has no right to
Lawrence seems to have forgotten that Kate actually
wanted a communion with the soul of the other man, Ramon.
Second, the author interferes in Kate's thoughts to impose