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Background of
the Author
David Herbert Lawrence (11
September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was
an English writer and poet. His
collected works represent, among
other things, an extended reflection
upon the dehumanising effects of
modernity and industrialisation.
Lawrence's writing explores issues
such as sexuality, emotional health,
vitality, spontaneity, and instinct. His
works include Sons and Lovers, The
Rainbow, Women in Love and Lady
Chatterley's Lover.
 Main ■Clifford Chatterley -
Connie's husband.
Characters
■Lady ■Mrs.Bolton(Ivy Bolton
Chatterley(Connie) - - Clifford's nurse and
the protagonist of the caretaker.
novel.
■Michaelis - a successful
■Oliver Mellors - the Irish playwright with
lover in the novel's whom Connie has an
title. affair early in the novel.
 Main ■Tommy Duke - one
of Clifford's
Characters contemporaries.
■Hilda Reid - Connie's
older sister by two ■Dunkan Forbes -
years. an artist friend of
Connie and Hilda.
■Sir Malcolm Reid - the
■Bertha Coutts - she
father of Connie and
is Mellor's wife,
Hilda.
separated from him
but not divorced.
 SETTING:
Wragby

Exposition
Plot Climax
•Connie Chatterley and Clifford •Connie goes to Venice for
Chatterley move to Wragby. several weeks.

Rising Action
•Growing restless, Connie begins an affair with
Michaelis.

•Connie spends much of her time there with Mellors in

the hut.
 Plot
Falling Action•
•Clifford fired Mellors
of his work.
•Connie tells Clifford
she loves Mellors and
having a baby with
him. But Clifford
refuses to give her a
divorce.
Denouement
The novel ends with
Mellors working on a
farm, waiting for his
divorce, and Connie
living with her sister,
also waiting: the hope
exists that, in the end,
they will be together.
Analysis
The story concerns a young married woman, the former Constance
Reid (Lady Chatterley), whose upper-class Baronet husband, Sir Clifford
Chatterley, described as a handsome, well-built man, is paralysed from
the waist down because of a Great War injury. In addition to Clifford's
physical limitations, his emotional neglect of Constance forces distance
between the couple. Her emotional frustration leads her into an affair
with the gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. The class difference between the
couple highlights a major motif of the novel, which is the unfair
dominance of intellectuals over the working class. The novel is about
Constance's realization that she cannot live with the mind alone but must
also be alive physically. That realisation stems from a heightened sexual
experience that Constance has felt only with Mellors, suggesting that love
can happen with only the element of the body, not just the mind.
 Symbols
Clifford Chatterley's
wheelchair is in many ways a
symbol of industrialization.
Clifford lacks the ability to use
his lower body because of his
Clifford's Wound war injury and must rely on a
machine for movement.
Clifford Chatterley's wound Woods/Hut
symbolizes the need for The woods surrounding
each person—and for Wragby symbolize the
humanity as a whole—to
find salvation.
conflict between the old
and the new.
Themes
●Love and personal relationship are the
threats that bind this novel together. The
author explores a wide range of different
types of relationship.
●The author (Lawrence) comes full circle
to argue once again for individual
regeneration, which can be found only
through the relationships between man
and woman.
 Moral
lesson
I think in this novel there is no so much moral lesson
we can get, what I have understand in this novel is
being alive is the only thing that matters. D.H
Lawrence believed novels could show people what it
means to be alive. This was his goal for Lady
Chatterley's Lover. He felt too many people were
walking through life as "dead men," and he hoped
by reading his novel they would hear his message
That's all
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