RELATIONS OF DOMINANCE AND EQUALITY IN D. H. LAWRENCE

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a personality to compete with hers.
She wants more than sexual
fulfilment.
Her battle is shown in terms of her attempt to
conquer her independence in the world.
The male characters in
these two novels do not in fact represent the dark male linked
to the earth as did Walter Morel.
Siegmund, Will and Skrebensky
are weaker males due to their nervous, incoherent, dependent
personalities.
Therefore, Lawrence's first phase shows women who
are stronger, independent and soulful (except perhaps for Ursula
who is not to be defined as a truly soulful heroine).
In the
second phase, the soulful woman is seen especially in Women in
Love in the character of Hermione Roddice.
However, this woman
is no longer victorious.
She is in fact the most criticized
because in her use of the mind she is a parasite, not a creative
person.
soulful.
Neither Gudrun nor Ursula Brangwen can be considered as
They are more accurately seen as modern women in quest.
In fact they differ in their quests because Gudrun is more
negatively independent in the sense that she is somehow corrupt;
whereas Ursula is a more balanced woman since she does not seem
to be corrupt, although she has within herself traits of
personality connected with both corruption and creation.
In "The
Fox", also, there is not any really soulful woman.
Banford and
March are characters who have divided selves since they represent
at first feminine and masculine sides of personality.
But both
women are independent since they live alone in a farm without any
man to help or to control them till Henry arrives there and
disturbs their life. The dark male in these two works is not
clearly present. In Women in Love he is absent since the male
characters are people who use their minds.
Birkin cannot in the
least represent the prototype of the dark male.
He is too
intellectual.
Gerald, on the other hand, is connected not with