Lady Chatterley’s lover

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Until now I have finished reading the novel, “Lady Chatterley’s lover” by D. H. Lawrence. Based on his novel “Sons and Lovers” I wrote my thesis for the Bachelor.

In the novel there are a lot of descrīptions of love-making scenes. The most prominent one is the love making between Mellors and Connie in the rain, which is short but impressive and exciting. It must be the vivid descrīptions of the love scenes that brought about its bad reputation of one of the officially banned books at its time.

The story happens in Wragby, which is a place where there are some pits where colliers work. Sir Clifford, one of the main characters, was crippled in the cataclysm, namely the First World War. The lower part of his body, from the hips down, was paralyzed for ever. Connis, his wife, was tormented by the lack of sex. She had sex with Michaelis, who was a friend of Clifford and then left. Later she fell in love with the game keeper, one of the servants of Clifford, Oliver Mellors. For love and for the satisfaction of that surging desire within her, she went to the cottage often and made love in the little room, with only a blanket as quilt. Ivy Bolton, who was a maid of Clifford, knew a little about this affair but she didn’t disclose it.

As the attachment for each other grew, Connie decided to elope with Mellors, and met with a rebuff from Mellors. In Venice with Hilda, Connie’s sister, Connie found herself pregnant. She determined to get Clifford to divorce her but was rebuked. The novel only ended with a long letter from Mellors to Connie, to show his intention to carry on with her.

What make me amazed are the raw, vivid, primitive descrīptions of love making.