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Lady Chatterley's Lover
(D. H. Lawrence)

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Mellors and His Indian Link
Much has been written about D. H. Lawrence as a great novelist, and much more controvercial discussions have taken place about his celebrated novel, Lady Chatterleys Lover. Yet, the Oriental insight in this novel seems to have gone altogether unnoticed. This is not to undermine the valuable evaluation of the novel carried out by eminent critics and scholars. It is a phallic novel, and he wrote the novel in order to shock people's castrated social spirituality, as he wrote in a letter to one of his friends. In this novel too, as he did in his other novels, he continues his attack on the industrialism and the intellectualism of the twentieth century life. Prompted by his creative vision, Lawrence wanted to expose the emotional and passional paralysis he observed in the people. He was also in search of a better insight to replace the European cerebral attitude to sex. It was at this time that he developed his great friendship with Earl Brewster, an ardent Buddhist. He discovered that there was much to be learned from the Indian attitude to sex, which is not rooted in sin, and he noticed that it takes sex to the level of a spiritual height. It is an elemental life force, and Lawrence realized that this vital force was totally distorted in the west. Chatterley's Lover should be read in this light, and it can be easily seen that the characters in this novel become symbols of his crative vision. Mellors, writes Lawrence, had a wife he didn't get on with, so he joined up in 1915 and was sent out to India. At a later stage in the novel he adds, that he may have picked up certain tricks there. The readers should try to observe mainly two things in the novel. One is the qualities of Mellors' character in the light of the tricks he picked up from India. The second is the total transformation in the character of Connie, as a result of her sexual union with Mellors. Though, at the beginning of the novel, our attention is drawn towards the crippled state of Clifford, what was actually crippled seem to be Connie's womanhood. A mad restlessness gripped Constance, and her body was going meaningless, going dull and opaque. However, she was hopeful and optimistic: "I too will emerge and see the sun". The sun rose in the form of Mellors, rising from the East. He was like an animal with bright phallos that had no independent personality behind it, says the novelist. The rest is only well known. All the sexual episodes in the novel are set in a pastoral background. According to Tantric belief, the human body represents the manifestation of the same energy, which is at play in the structure of the cosmos. A close scrutiny of the desription of Connie, after her physical contacts with Mellors, would reveal that Lawrence must have assimilated this Indian principle to achieve his creative intentions. Constance, writes Lawrence,was like the sea, nothing but dark waves rising and heaving, heaving with a great swell.... At another place he says, "Today she could feel in her body, the huge sap in the massive trees, up to the bud tips". Several such examples can be taken to prove the Indian link in the novel. It is a beautiful novel.



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