Gerard's Psychology & Night's Magnificence in D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love, Appunti di Inglese

Scarica Gerard's Psychology & Night's Magnificence in D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! D.H LAWRENCE THE INDUSTRIAL MAGNATE from chapter 17 “Women in love” The industrial magnate, Gerard inherits a coal industry, he brings technical innovations, he knew about the condition of workers. ANTI-INDUSTRIALISATION - lt reminds Dickens with coke town, people are dehumanized and there's massification, children are like vessels, Eliot like a taxi throbbing, gramophone. in fact, here he uses the metaphors the stream of miners and a solid mass of human being. Gerard owns the firm, he repeats the word power that reminds to Nietzsche, the will of power, workers are subjugated to his will. Will of men. he is the God of the machine (whatt Gerard thinks, lawrence is against him). Ugliness is the worst consequence of industrialization, nature is good, the city is black and red for Dickens, idea of monotony. the workers are ugly, they acts like machines, lots of full-stops, automatically, they are subjugated. PSYCHOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION - the most important aspect is the psychological description of the Gerard. he is described in a very matter-of-fact way. free indirect thought, using also a colloquial language (Pahl), he did not care, people were suffering, sufferings and feelings, gerard thinks only about the social mechanism, utiliarian vision, waht matterd was the pure instrumentality of the individual, men are part of the machines, objectification of people. Everything in the world has its function, idea of self-fullifilment. He considered himself allow to subjugate matter, he doesn't respect nature, the fight, the victory, challenge, semantic fiel of war. as a general grasps the plan of his campagne, simile, he wants to subjugate his girlfriend, his horse, he doesn't care for individuals. He represents the depth drive, he wants to kill, but in the end, there's no one to kill, because his girlfriend escapes, so he kills himself. He is the negative example. - experimentalism: free indirect thought, parataxis, simple opinion. - objectivity, the narrator doesn't interfere THE MAGNIFICENT OF THE NIGHT from “Women in Love” Aman and a woman, Birkin and ursula, they are perfectly balanced, she's emancipated. It's a positive example (like in Joyce there is an acceptance of life with yes). The solution to the death drive, the mechanized world is life, sex, the relationship between a man and a woman, he introduces BALANCE IN SEPARATION, no one has to subjugate the other, the idea of remain separate, he believes in OTHERNESS. “only known as a palpable revelation of living otherness". This balance is a response to incommunicability, isolation, death typical aspects of the modem world and it is put into evidence through parallelism. sex is a solution, he introduces sexual intercourse with a poetic language that includes rhyme, a metre, alliteration) - the semantic field of nature, primitivism, industrialization has destroyed nature, he knew the countryside and mechanism condemned men to ugliness, it destroyed the relation between men and nature. - magic, transcendental vision, idea to establish magic, sherwood forest, comic mystery union with sex intercourse using abstract words like darkness, invisible flesh