Lady Chatterley's Lover Research Paper

“I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.” Voltaire is famously quoted with these words, having spent most of his career writing on the evils of censorship. His writing impacted many movements, including the French Revolution, the American Revolution, and the writing of the Constitution and our Bill of Rights. As American citizens, the freedom to say, write, and live as we wish is so important, people will give up their life in another country to come to America for that freedom. When we are censored, this right is stolen from us, because just as you have a right to speak as you wish, you have a right to hear what people are saying. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H Lawrence has a long

When the ban was first lifted from the book in 1960, it caused a chain reaction that sparked people into examining values around them. When the book was first written in 1928, it was quickly banned because of the use of forbidden words and its sexual nature. Upon review at its trial, it was still found to be obscene, but the jury ruled that people would be able to understand and accept the ideas and themes within the book. The book’s original banning was not a surprise, but in today’s society, a similar book would slip through the cracks. Lady Chatterley’s Lover does not focus solely on sexual themes; it talks about living in post-Industrialized Britain as often as it does on the sexual nature of Lady Chatterley. This book should not be banned in schools. Most children in America are exposed to sexual themes long before they know what sex is, and any child with knowledge of technology can look up things far filthier than Lady Chatterley’s Lover with a simple Google search. The book provides very real insight into the difference between the upper-class and lower-class in post-Industrialized Britain, and the terrible work conditions which resulted from this class distinction. Greek Myths include many more sexual themes, albeit not as explored as in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, but those are still taught in school for relevance; why not Lady Chatterley’s Lover for its own