Abdelfattah Ghazel
Al Majmaah University, Saudi Arabia
Abstract
The paper studies the notion of class in
D H Lawrence’s last novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover. It argues that Lawrence
offers his vision of social and cultural reform in the aftermath of the Great
War. The paper sheds a rehabilitative
look at the novel and establishes a theoretical framework where the issues of
sex and class are reconciled. Lawrence transgresses class boundaries through the
Connie/Mellors liaison. The narrative is
organized in two stages. The first stage
of the narrative exposes the emptiness of the pre-war social values, with the
purpose of destroying the reader’s sense of class. In this stage, Lawrence
attacks the old class system and draws a bleak image of the upper class, as
represented in the Character of Sir Clifford Chatterley. Once the destructive stage is over, the
writer introduces his new class markers, and thus initiates the reader into a
fresh class consciousness.
Key words: class consciousness, transgression, sensuality, constructive, upper
class, social reform.
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