RELATIONS OF DOMINANCE AND EQUALITY IN D. H. LAWRENCE

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he says
"Yet at the end, when Cipriano says he wants her, she
knows she has decided to stay" (p.135).
I feel, on the
contrary, that there is not, at the end of the book, this assured
certainty.
What is present there, as I shall try to show in my
conclusion, is a whole set of uncertainties.
The final nature
of Kate's decision is not really defined.
To sum : up the theme of conflict in Lawrence: Sagar views
it as a deterioration of the search for balance.
The first
novels present the struggle, not in terms of dominance but in
terms of a relation of equilibrium.
After Women in Love,
Lawrence puts the conflict in terms of male dominance.
Ford also
seems to agree with this point of view.
The difference is
in
what he qualifies as 'male dominance' in the later novels
is Lawrence's attempt to make his peace with his father.
As for
Hough's view, conflict in Lawrence is always related to an
exploration of being in the relations between men and women.
No matter how exhaustively Lawrence's works have been'
analysed by different people with different ideas, new views are
still possible.
My view of Lawrence sometimes matchs with that of the
critics and sometimes does not.
Throughout this dissertation I
will try to throw new light on his works so as to illuminate the
texts to clarify their intentions and effects.
I shall return
to the critics again to support and clarify my interpretation.
Other critics will appear in my discussion when their views are
relevant as parallels or contrasts to my own.
Statement of Purpose
My intention in this dissertation is to examine Lawrence's
representative novels and analyse the pattern of conflict and