ALCHEMY OF A DIAMOND IN WOMEN IN LOVE: LAWRENCE’S DEMONS OF MALADJUSTMENT

Keywords: Puritanism, novel, Women in Love, self

Abstract

This paper deals with David Herbert Lawrence’s ideas about pure, full life and growth and significance of an individual expressed in his novel Women in Love. Pursuing Svetozar Kol- jević’s assertion about Lawrence as the first great English novelist who dared to break with the convention of compromise in the novel, at the same time returning to the very origins of the greatest tradition of English Puritanism, the paper discusses in what ways and at what price Lawrence’s characters avoid existential and moral compromise or succumb to it. Comparing some of their decisions to the author’s choices we come to the conclusion that the only absolute is the non-existence of it.
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