Thursday, October 21, 2010
D.H. Lawrence
So Andre was a champion of D.H. Lawrence. I'm afraid I've read very little by this author -- "Women in Love." And a short story. Does that add anything to his character for you? I think all I could take was that idea of the untroubled pursuit of physical pleasure, but warped in Andre and Dorcas' beastly ways.
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Ugh, yes. As soon as I saw he worshipped D.H. Lawrence, I felt in the presence of a misogynist and a bore! Lawrence's "Lady Chatterly's Lover" in particular is always touted as some kind of celebration of female sexuality, but it's really just a male-centered fantasy masquerading as sexual liberation, similar to how the girls in our novella seem to think they're sexually free and liberated when they're really just sexual prey for the selfish and unscrupulous.
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