Dominant and Submissive Behaviors in Lady Chatterley's Lover
Dominant and Submissive Behaviors
Lady Chatterley's Lover, is a controversial novel written by D.H Lawrence with reference to the sexual life, which the couples experience demonstrating patterns of dominance and submission. D. H Lawrence has presented a deep relation between sexual desires and the dominant-submissive relationships, which develop between the protagonists of the novel. Its plot revolves around the story of Lady Catherine who is a young woman, married to a paralyzed husband that becomes impotent. Connie, the female protagonist of the novel is found wandering off in the wilderness of desolation. She has nobody to accompany her, considering his husband being impotent is another part of this Victorian era when greed had taken over everyone. For his inevitable thirst of becoming a successful writer and after getting impotent, Clifford gives up on all of his masculine desires, submitting himself as an infant like dependence upon a nurse. In sum, Lawrence has been trying to detect the patterns of dominant and submissive behavior through Connie and Mellor, accompanied with Clifford and Mrs. Bolton with regard to their experiences, which had left them with a void that could only be filled through sexual intercourse.
When it comes to Connie and Mellor, a wide class difference exists between them. Despite the gap they have between each other, the sexual desire in them for each other cannot be quenched. While Connie wants to explore her sexual desires through having intimate contact with Mellor, she eventually has to submit herself to him, as Lawrence, describes in his novel, “she had to be a passive, consenting thing, like . . . a physical slave” (Lawrence). However, there was something different in Connie who could enable Mellor to apply his dominant sexual thirst as the writer quotes about Connie: “She was gifted from nature with an appearance of demure submissive maidenliness” (Lawrence). He did not like the sexual intercourse with any women; especially
Lady Chatterley's Lover, is a controversial novel written by D.H Lawrence with reference to the sexual life, which the couples experience demonstrating patterns of dominance and submission. D. H Lawrence has presented a deep relation between sexual desires and the dominant-submissive relationships, which develop between the protagonists of the novel. Its plot revolves around the story of Lady Catherine who is a young woman, married to a paralyzed husband that becomes impotent. Connie, the female protagonist of the novel is found wandering off in the wilderness of desolation. She has nobody to accompany her, considering his husband being impotent is another part of this Victorian era when greed had taken over everyone. For his inevitable thirst of becoming a successful writer and after getting impotent, Clifford gives up on all of his masculine desires, submitting himself as an infant like dependence upon a nurse. In sum, Lawrence has been trying to detect the patterns of dominant and submissive behavior through Connie and Mellor, accompanied with Clifford and Mrs. Bolton with regard to their experiences, which had left them with a void that could only be filled through sexual intercourse.
When it comes to Connie and Mellor, a wide class difference exists between them. Despite the gap they have between each other, the sexual desire in them for each other cannot be quenched. While Connie wants to explore her sexual desires through having intimate contact with Mellor, she eventually has to submit herself to him, as Lawrence, describes in his novel, “she had to be a passive, consenting thing, like . . . a physical slave” (Lawrence). However, there was something different in Connie who could enable Mellor to apply his dominant sexual thirst as the writer quotes about Connie: “She was gifted from nature with an appearance of demure submissive maidenliness” (Lawrence). He did not like the sexual intercourse with any women; especially