Lady Chatterley's Lover Essay

Lady Chatterley’s Lover represents lots of relationships, Sir. Clifford Chatterley and Constance relationship, the relationship that develops between Sir Clifford Chatterley and Mrs. Bolton , and the relationship between Constance Chatterley and Oliver Mellors.

Sir. Clifford and Connie relationship is that like of a tutor to pupil, Clifford wants to dominate Connie intellectually. Life with Clifford made her to be caught up, captured in his words and it is a world without real meaning, there is no touch, no contact. Clifford and Connie’s relationship is a good example to show how Connie is struggling to escape. Lawrence gives her power of resistance and a capacity for change.

The most interesting relationship is that between Connie, an aristocratic

Also, Mellors- the gamekeeper, is unsatisfied with his marriage with Bertha who refused to give him pleasure. These two souls live in unhappiness. They want to experience the love of the true sexual act which unites body and mind. He predicted the sexual revolution which positioned men and women not as human beings but as flawed individuals who understand the power of their body. Spirituality is achievable when the body and the mind coexist in perfect union.

Although Connie has constructed her own private language for her body, her physical resistance to Mellors’ dialect conditions her perception of him as an object and her experience of sex with him in the “third-person”. Her focus upon his “haunches”, the body part for which she has a private language to which Mellors does not have access, puts his body at a further remove, experience of sex that she perceives her body as she has Mellors’. Connie does not know what Mellors means. If Connie cannot feel intercommunication then Mellors cannot speak a meaning that Connie will understand. Lawrence uses Connie’s orgasms as a way of understanding the paradox of inarticulate expression and an expressive language of the