RELATIONS OF DOMINANCE AND EQUALITY IN D. H. LAWRENCE

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reader should then make up his own mind.
That is why several
critics view the endings of Women in Love, "The Fox" and The
Plumed Serpent as implying Ursula's submission
to Birkin,
Henry's domination over March and Kate having decided to stay in
Mexico (see Millet, for instance).
Personally, I disagree with
such views.
Birkin has not dominated Ursula, March and Henry
are still undecided, and Kate has not decided to stay.
The open
ending has this fantastic advantage.
People may interpret it
according to their own convictions.
It has been my intention to show through this dissertation
the pattern of conflict as related to Lawrence's fiction.
This
pattern has been fully examined in terms of showing that through
Sons and Lovers Lawrence creates prototypes Which are extended
to other stories.
Mrs Morel represents the woman associated with
the sky, the soulful woman, stronger than the man.
This man is
Mr Morel, the example of the dark male related exclusively with
the blood.
He is the sensual male who, because of his connection
with the earth, is shown as weaker and is defeated by the soul
in the stronger woman.
These prototypes are found in other
stories with some degree of difference.Lawrence's early phase
shows them in the following way: the soulful women are always
victorious and their main representatives belong to Sons and
Lovers, The Trespasser and The Rainbow.
The characters who show
traits associated to Mrs Morel are Helena, the 'dreaming woman'
and, particularly Anna and Ursula Brangwen.
The case of Anna is
especially different from her daughter since she only replaces
her husband in the home.
She is victorious in the sense that
she defeats the weak male in her husband and tranforms him into
a mere sexual object.
Ursula, on the other hand, is victorious
in the sense that she defeats the male because he does not have