Lady Chatterly's Lover Analysis

Transcendental Sexuality : Sexual Awakening leading Development of Self in D.H Lawrence’s Lady Chatterly’ s Lover

While reading D.H Lawrence’s Lady Chatterly’s Lover I could retrace the imagery and the compelling thoughts and emotions of the characters in the novel with the idea of transcendental sexuality and spiritual sex mentioned in the ancient texts of numerous civilizations and holy texts such as kaballah., The Zohar and The mystic Song of Songs.

According to Kabballah pleasure is what defines a human being. Nothing more do I find more apt This world ‘s creation also arose from the desire of pleasure in Eve to rebel leading to the act of eating of the forbidden fruit of knowledge . The process of lovemaking has infinite potential

A country women Connie symbolic of womanhood in its truest , naïve and purest form is deprived of what she calls true connection and is trapped in a loveless marriage with a cold man who lacks sentiment. Lawrence ‘s description of Connie grows dangerously disconnected , out of contact and deathlike. He describes her state as “ feeling acutely the agony of her own female forlornness.” Connie in one of her thoughts starts to resent and repulse her body .Lawrence says

Her body was going meaningless, going dull and opaque, so much insignificant substance. It made her feel immensely depressed and hopeless. What hope was there? She was old, old at twenty-seven, with no gleam and sparkle in the flesh. Old through neglect and denial

Lawrence goes on to describe Connie ‘s disappointed state of nothingless in her life again and again. Connie feels her efforts to live a life has led to a grand total of nothing “The sense of deep physical injustice burned to her very soul”. Connie stubbornly

Her whole self quivered unconscious and alive, like plasm. She could not know what it was. She could not remember what it had been. Only that it had been more lovely than anything ever could be. Only that. And afterwards she was utterly still, utterly unknowing, she was not aware for how long. And he was still with her, in an unfathomable silence along with her. And of this, they would never speak

The more one looses control the more creative energy flows through the power of creative and intitutive arena of one s mind where it finds more satisfaction and a sense of completeness and creation that is not realized or described but is felt and experienced .

Not just Connie but other characters in the novel also portray the need of a deep connection it is as if one is incomplete if not known to the lover’s body Mrs Bolton remembers her husband and claims that if there is heaven above she knows that it her husband and the touch of him

Connie describes this feeling in one of her dialogues to her sister Hilda .She