D.H.ロレンス論 : 『息子と恋人』におけるロレンスの人間像

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In this study, D. H. Lawrence's view of man and his viewing new world is studied with special reference to Sons and Lovers, 'Foreword to Sons and Lovers, ' and some of his short essays, 'Nottingham and The Mining Countryside' and 'Democracy.' Sons and Lovers is Lawrence's autobiographic novel. Reading this book comparing it with Jessie's expectations for this book as mentioned in A Personal Record D. H. Lawrence, we can recognize Sons and Lovers as his springboard into the exploration of his new world. In Sons and Lovers, he reviewed his own past so honestly and sincerely exploring the depths of his conscientious soul that he had to deny his beloved mother as well as Jessie who had unselfishly dedicated herself to him spiritualy. Because he could not find any hope for the future in the spritual life and idealism of either his mother or Jessie, with whom the first principle of all things, life itself was denied, he had to leave and negate his past, the old world symbolized by his mother and Jessie. For his own existence, as if with a mission, he started to realize his new world, a world symbolized by his father beaten down in an environment of industrialization and idealism. In his philosophy as reviewed in Sons and Lovers, Lawrence concluded that what makes our life ugly is 'Word domination over Flesh, ' that is, the domination of spiritual civilization and idealism over the activities of our intuition and spontaneity. Lawrence has a brilliant talent for recognizing the mystic flame of life in everything. He insists that to recognize mystic life in everything gives us joy and pride, and that to make our daily lives rich and joyous and proud, we have to stop falling into mechanical automatism in daily life. Lawrence belives that there is no way to save us from the ugly suffocating world by the pursuit of happiness resulting in the 'forcing of all human energy into a competition of mere acquisition.' To save man from an ugly world, he advocates that one must follow his conscientious, spontaneous self and must also approve in others the strange reality of Otherness. Admitting the strange reality of Otherness, we may be able to escape falling into the error of forcing vital activities in an entrenched line of a single ideal. Only this kind of man who can admit the strange reality of Otherness can build a true 'comunity of beauty, dignity and a certain splendour, ' a new world which gets rid of the base forced competition of mere acquisition of this ugly world.
帯広畜産大学の論文
1973-03-30

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川端喬
帯広畜産大学英文学研究室

D.H.ロレンス論 : 『息子と恋人』におけるロレンスの人間像

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