Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. LawrenceMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Disclosure:
As my devotion to D.H. Lawrence works, I found this book free in the website of Planet eBook. The Book contains some errors that should be ratified but anyway it was OK.
My Plot:
The story begin with the description of the social status of Characters, Constance the hero of the story and her sister were enjoying an Artistic life, Constance get married with Clifford Chatterley who was a baronet at the Wragby. Clifford was a Military agent in Flanders, and during war he got paralyzed, and get back to live in Wragby after the death of his father Sir Geoffry. Constance in this respect was living a normal life with her husband at the Wragby, he was looking after the family's heritage, the wood and all the properties that were under the domination of the family, Emma Chatterley the only sister of Sir Clifford due to her mistreatment with Constance moved to London to a lead a lonely life. Connie or Constance as the writer called her, have had a nasty life during her stay at Wragby, she didn't like the population out in Stacks Gates and Tevershal, most of the population were colliers working in Pits, the whole environment seemed too dark and gloomy. She hang out to the wood from time to time till she discovered the Game Keeper of sir Clifford. His name was Oliver Mellors. in this moments Sir Clifford was working as a writer and most of Artists visited them at Wragby. Connie fell in love with Michaelis an Irish born American play writer, This intrigue was just for the sake of sexual fulfillment, but Michaelis was somehow a rude boy to her especially when it comes to the sexual side. Clifford tell her one day that he need a Child to be the Heir of the Chatterley's. and to keep the Tradition of the Family. Connie was reluctant to choose with whom she might mate in order to accomplish Sir Clifford's will. And finally she falls in love with the Game Keeper who was somehow her best Fantasy, she fulfills all her sexual needs with him, he was something live according to her definition, not like those arrogant artists who leads the mental life and ignore the aspect of women. Connie broke her Intrigue with Michaelis, and gave much attention to the Game Keeper, when time comes for her trip to Venice she promised Sir Clifford she will come back to him. But during her stay in Venice she discovered that she was pregnant from Mellors the Game Keeper, she decided to leave Clifford and to run away for her new life with Mellors. Sir Clifford by discovering this unpleasant events decided to change his view with Connie, he refused to give her the divorce and refuse the aspect that her "Ladyship" was on an intrigue with one of his servants. So the end goes like this: Connie got back to Scotland waiting Clifford to gave her the Divorce. Mellors also waits for the legal divorce of his ex-wife Bertha Courtts, and finally got a job in a farm located in the English Midlands.
Positive and Negative Aspects:
The whole story was funny but nasty at the same time, all the Characters went on from a simple process to the most complex climax, Connie at the beginning was sweet and at last it grows nasty leaving her legal husband to live with a "Vulnerable Game Keeper". Besides the sexual side was so present in the whole story, It was too bold and shameful to depict such hot scenes in a poetic style. In addition D.H. Lawrence was hardly doing two things at the same time, He was criticizing the Industrialization of Britain, and at the same time gave much focus to the Natural side leaving so much description to the wood and to the forests. His style of describing the Colliers village was so long and nonsense. He could go describing Tevershal or Stacks Gates in more than one Chapter, so much description that leads to no result or a slight Idea of how the place is. But the most nasty thing was the Derbyshire accent that was used most of the time by Mellors conversations with Connie. It was very hard to understand what he was saying unless you make some linguistic modifications to the syllables used in his speech. Lawrence in this situation did not care about the foreign reader more than he cares about his intention for writing the story. It was a bold manner to stick to one culture and to let the foreign reader outside it. Anyway the story was nonjudgmental.
My Personal Reaction:
I would say that Enjoy the story more than I enjoy the writing style of D.H. Lawrence. It was very hard concerning the style of the writing, using "Venerable Accent" beside the so much description to the wood and natural side of life, It was like reading a political book that go against a certain idea. Besides most Lawrence stories are mostly based on Colliers Villages and British Nobility, criticizing the Machine and Industrialization, It was like repeating the same thing in all his books. It was obvious that he uses the main components of his life in all his works, anyway I conclude that he was successful in exploring the techniques of psychology in all his Characters, Imitating the style of the Russian Dostoevsky, that way I would say he was clever to some extent.
Recommendations:
The Book contains some hot scenes of Lady Chatterley with the Game Keeper Mellors. so I don't recommend the book to people under the age of puberty, otherwise I would recommend it to people who are familiar with the writing style of D.H. Lawrence. The book is not easy to be understood so try to make some hard mental works to get the meaning.
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