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Summary: Most Meaningful and Lovely of Lawrence's Novels
Review: As with any good novel there are several levels on which this book may be read. Taken factually, here a woman forsakes her incapacitated husband and takes the gamekeeper of their estate as her lover. Pretty ugly scenario! How can such a cruel action be justified? Lawrence is not afraid to take on this formidable challenge.To some people there is absolutely no issue here. When you marry, you commit yourself exclusively to your mate. Period! Case closed! But in real life, the matter is not so simple, unless you choose to make it so. On a deeper level a marriage inherently has hidden strings attached. It requires an honest effort by both partners to commit to the marriage, to sense their partner's needs, and to respond to them honestly and with sensitivity. If one mate is not perceptive, not doing their part, not "truly interested" in the marriage, then the marriage is in reality already dissolved, albeit not legally. This was the case with Lady Chatterly and her husband. It was also the case with the gamekeeper and his wife. Lawrence had to courage to recognize and to address this marriage problem, which probably is more common today than we would care to admit. The level at which I most liked this novel was in the descriptions of the actual physical encounters between the Lady and her lover. I have not counted them but there are perhaps four or five, all under different circumstances, all resulting in different degrees of satisfaction. Which suggests to me tht the sex act, in itself, is an almost neutral event. What gives it meaning are the attitudes and sensitivities that its participants bring to the occasion. At its deepest level sex is a reverent act, a sacrament. It is an uncompromising, fully trustful yielding of one's body to the care and love of another person. The result can be the most glorious feeling a human can experience. It can also be the most degrading feeling in the world. In this novel Lawrence follows the Lady and her lover through their progressing relationship. The novel can serve the reader as an inspiring view of the great beauty and joy that a loving relationship may eventually engender. Should teenagers read this book? In my opinion, no. Nevertheless, they will. But, like Shakespeare, they will not be able to absorb its wealth. I encourage them to save its reading for their later years when they are trying to bring new riches to their lives. Sort of like saving the icing on the cake, and eating it last. I think Lawrence would like that.
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Summary: dated
Review: We can't rectify the wrongs done in the past by giving undue attention or even fawning adulation to works not worthy of such high praise. At his best, Lawrence's passion and disgust with the mechanization of the human soul are moving and worthwhile. But when he starts banging his drum there are few authors as pedantic and unbearable. Thought not as bad as the ineffably self-indulgent Plumed Serpent, Lady.. has attained what I believe is an unmerited cult status because of Lawrence's now infamous battles with obscenity laws. That's not to say it's a bad book. It is an important book, but that shouldn't demand tacit consent that it is great literature.
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Summary: Societial Repression
Review: Lady Chatterley's Lover was an excellent book. Lawrence depicts many aspects of mankind that were, at the time, way down on the "d.l." Constance found herself in a marriage with a cripled man incapable of fulfilling any of her needs, intellectual and sexual. She was once inthralled by his hopelessly romantic philosophies of life, but grew to find them shallow and superficial. Her pity for Clifford was what held the two together for so long, but Constance, over time, tired of playing house wife, and ventured to find her contentment elsewhere. She didn't have to travel far. Constance found her happiness on her very own property through her manservant, thus began the scandalous affair the world has been talking about ever since.
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Summary: The Art of Love
Review: The way that Lawrence depicts love in this novel is fascinating. I never had a graspe on the true meaning of love until I read this novel. By reading the detailed love trials between Lady Chatterly and Mellors, one can truely discover the beauty of lovemaking. This piece of work shows Lawrences gifted personality. The majority of Lady Chatterly's Lover deals with sex or "love" and not at any time during the novel did I feel the least bit offended. Reading D.H Lawrence's Lady Chatterly's Lover is great emotional and educational experience!
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Summary: Lawrence fascinate me!
Review: As an English-learner, it took me almost two weeks to finish this great book. But I think it deserves my time and efforts. Lawrence facinates me. His pain-staking efforts and subtlety in exploring the balance between men and women are so touching. I hope that I could read this book again, and appreciate more of it.
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Summary: Cruelty to Flowers...
Review: This book has some of the richest imagery that you will find anywhere. There are hidden thematic morsels strewn throughout the text. However, Lawrence's style is often pedantic and tiresome. If you want to see his best work, I would suggest that you read St. Mawr or The Man Who Died.
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Summary: Absoultely Topping!
Review: You know me as, Sir Clifford of Wragby, the gentleman who gets cuckolded by a fatuous gamekeeper in my employ named Mellors. Well, I simply won't stand for it; a man of his low breeding forgetting his place. Oh, this Oliver Mellors is quite the cad, a Born Bounder, as are all Derbyshire men, I'm told. Right. Now see here, Lads, I hired this Mellors chap as my gamekeeper, but he has cultivated a taste for larger game than the rabbits, wouldn't you say? And Lady Chatterley? My Chaste Connie? Well, I'm sure that I don't know. How could she? Surely not! A woman of her position? Lady Chatterley, lowering herself to surreptitious ephemeral engagements? Lady Chatterley, cavorting about the Wragby Estate? Lady Chatterley, seduced by the promise of Priapic Pleasures? God, how ghastly! I assure you, that I would take this man Mellors to task if it weren't for the injury that has fated me to this wheelchair (a beastly mechanical contrivance, to be sure.) Oh, blast it all, man. If it weren't for this infernal contraption, which confines me completely, I dare say that Mellors would never have been in a position to "press the issue," as it were. Not much to be done for it now, is there, Lads? So bloody hard to hire decent help these days, pity really. Well, that said, let's have no more of this nasty business. Right. I'm off, stiff, upper lip, always ready for a go and all that. I shall bear it all for England, as one must. Cheerio.
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Summary: Beautifull, awfull, ugly... but how is our life?
Review: If yo can read this book till end, you can reclaim your humanity, not taking in account the handicaps of your education (mainly religious). The most important thing to be understood is that happiness is always selfish,whatever the elders ever told you. Charity is the thing that go fine all the times it don't mess with your real inner feeling. But how such a common sense judgement can be reached by the priests of over 1000000000 catholics (in their sayings, not thoughts), or the even more catholics than PAPA anglican reverends? I think that all reviews rejecting the intrinsec value of this book are related not to it's real value, but to the hidden handicaps of missunderstanding the life, the inner substance of humanity, the real substance of the Holly Book commandements
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Summary: An exquisite rendition of love's perils in a hierarchy.
Review: D.H. Lawerence's book of love in the most remote of settings is both compelling enough to read non- stop, while incorporating cultural aspects of the times. As with many of Lawerence's other novels the parallels to that of his own life are plainly seen. The minning buisness that is the center of Clifford's dwindling fortune and the occupation of his studies further into the novel, is directly linked to the boyhood of Lawerence. As with Oliver Mellors's questionable sexuality, that to was an issue that Lawerence had addressed about himself in his adulthood. Overall the only difficulty is found in the Derbyshire english that is used by Mellors. In all the novel was a very intriguing and well endowed for it's time leading to it's banning in both the U.S. and in Great Britian. Challenging reading for anyone that is intrested in exploring both the historical and the romanticism of the cast system.
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Summary: intense and sincere with a very plain ending
Review: the novel is intense and exquisite, it must be remenbered that the book remained banned in England for a while and the author was the target of numerous attacks, but the truth prevails as it always do. the sincerity in the traetment of body functions was too much for the time;now when everything is permissible, it does not seem like a graet deal.there is only one thing which forces me to give this book only 4 stars and that is the horrible ending, so plain, read for yourselves and get dissapointed.
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