D. H. Lawrence.

Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Questions for Reading and Discussion:

1. What do you think is Lady Chatterley's Lover's view on World War I and its aftermath?
How did the war change society? What other factors, according to the novel, were at
work to shape early 20th-century society?
2. How does the novel protest against hypocritical morality?
3. Consider the theme of loneliness.
4. How is the theme of love presented in the novel?
5. How is sensuality characterized in the novel?
6. Characterize Clifford/ Characterize Constance/ Characterize Mellors.
7. Which are the conflicts in the novel?
8. How is the role of family and community defined in this novel?
9. What is the role of the manor house, the industrial village, and the wood in the novel?
10. How does nature imagery function in the novel?

II Quotations for Comentary, Interpretation and Discussion:

1. „A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
2. „Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of
being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to
the mass.”
3. „But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have
them they hate you because you won't; and when you do have them they hate
you again, for some other reason. Or for no reason at all, except that they are
discontented children, and can't be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do
what she may.”
4. „But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.”
5. „Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the
body hates and resists the mind.”
6. „Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots
in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.”
7. „What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.”
8. „You're spending your life without renewing it. You've got to be amused,
properly healthily amused. You're spending your vitality without making any.
Can't go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!”
9. „Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you're married and her
name's Bertha”
10. “We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen!”