Lady Chatterley s Lover
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This paper examines the controversial book "Lady Chatterley's Lover" by D.H. Lawrence which is full of social, political and cultural implications. It looks at how by focusing on the forbidden relationship between Lady Chatterley and Oliver Mellors, Lawrence reveals a great deal about the structure and politics of post-war society. It discusses how although the main theme of the book is love, the unproductiveness, inhumanity and ugliness of life in a local mining community play a large role and how the political elements of the book are clearly demonstrated by Lady Chatterley's life in a society devoted to making money.
D. H. Lawrence's negative attitude towards civilization is due to the fact that it has made human being conscious, and society mechanical. Man has to leave that consciousness behind in order to re-discover nature. He believed that modern industry had deprived people of individuality, making them bolts in the industrial machine...