Lady Chatterley's Lover
The Uncensored Edition
D. H. Lawrence
- This
- novel
- by
- D.
- H.
- Lawrence
- was
- first
- published
- in
- 1928
- and
- subsequently
- banned.
- Lady
- Chatterley's
- Lover
- is
- one
- of
- the
- most
- subversive
- novels
- in
- English
- Literature.
- The
- story
- concerns
- a
- young
- married
- woman,
- the
- former
- Constance
- Reid
- (Lady
- Chatterley),
- whose
- upper
- class
- husband,
- Sir
- Clifford
- Chatterley,
- described
- as
- a
- handsome,
- well-built
- man,
- has
- been
- paralysed
- from
- the
- waist
- down
- due
- to
- a
- Great
- War
- injury.
- In
- addition
- to
- Clifford's
- physical
- limitations,
- his
- emotional
- neglect
- of
- Constance
- forces
- distance
- between
- the
- couple.
- Her
- emotional
- frustration
- leads
- her
- into
- an
- affair
- with
- the
- gamekeeper,
- Oliver
- Mellors.
- The
- class
- difference
- between
- the
- couple
- highlights
- a
- major
- motif
- of
- the
- novel
- which
- is
- the
- unfair
- dominance
- of
- intellectuals
- over
- the
- working
- class.
- The
- novel
- is
- about
- Constance's
- realization
- that
- she
- cannot
- live
- with
- the
- mind
- alone;
- she
- must
- also
- be
- alive
- physically.
- This
- realization
- stems
- from
- a
- heightened
- sexual
- experience
- Constance
- has
- only
- felt
- with
- Mellors,
- suggesting
- that
- love
- can
- only
- happen
- with
- the
- element
- of
- the
- body,
- not
- the mind.
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