Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence

Posted : 1 year, 6 months ago at May 11 15:28

I think that taking into consideration the fact that D.H Lawrence wanted to call this book Tenderness bodes well for what sentiments he originally intended top portray with this novel. The book focuses on a young, strong minded and educated woman named Constance who marries her intellectual companion just before the first world war. Unfortunately he returns to her a cripple and embarrassed by himself retires to a life spent a genius recluse. Bound by her sense of wifely duty and her intellectual connection to her husband Constance busies herself about the house relishing rare visits from guests, but ultimately becomes bored, trapped and isolated. As her frustration builds with her situation in life and with her husband she realizes that no one can live solely by the mind, that to liv...Read more

Rating : 9/10