H Lawrence’s Concept of Fury
D.H Lawrence’s Women in Love (1920) significantly reworks Nietzsche’s central concept of the will to power. Lawrence saw modern literature as a mode of representing the ‘fluidity’ in life in a way that could counteract the rigid discourses of philosophy and religion (McManus). According to McManus, Lawrence’s point of view, the conflict between man and woman arises from the civilized woman’s having become the desperate antagonist of man, drawing from “his greatest possession- his manhood, his masculinity- and feminizing him (MacManus).” and bringing him under the control of her will. In Aoron’s Rod, Lawrence makes one of the characters say, speaking of women in general
“I hate her, when she knows, and when she wills.
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She noted this new expression of vaunting. How she envied Ursula a certain unconscious positivity! even her vulgarity! (Lawrence 225)”. It illustrates the inner jealousy of each women towards the other.
Moreover, there is ‘Sneaky Anger’ when someone never let others know that he is angry, for instance when Ursula was furious and jealous because she feels that Birkin was trying to placate both women (Ursula and Hermione) at once. She pretended that she is fine but
When she got outside the house she ran down the road in fury and agitation. It was strange, the unreasoning rage and violence Hermione roused in her, by her very presence. Ursula knew she gave herself away to the other woman, she knew she looked ill-bred, uncouth, exaggerated. But she did not care. She only ran up the road, lest she should go back and jeer in the faces of the two she had left behind for they outraged her.” (Lawrence