The lady Chatterley's lover

I have chosen to write my final paper over The Lady Chatterley's Lover it has been one of my " will get to" books for a while, but now that i have read it, what should my thesis be? do I write over the sexual ambiguity at the time, or the class difference, or industrial vs. nature, or emotional love vs. physical love? i love this book, but i am split with how i should continue my paper.

The novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover is basically about feminism,sexual freedom and society during the period after the the First World War( I think). People in the upper classes of the society or the wealthy and prosperous where the young were groomed to be genteel and behaved well morally to maintain the superior social status. These qualities were so evident in those persons having titles, Lord, Lady,Sir and others to uphold for themselves.

If I have to write for my undergraduate thesis, I will be tackling on the moral aspects,feminism,sexual freedom & ethics, society divide between the unclassed and privileged , and to compare at that the time of the novel's setting as compared to our present generation. I think there are no changes in social attitudes and manners, these are actually becoming worse and hostile now.

You have to read his writing, A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover". It is very interesting and stimulating to read and understand his novel, and" you will feel that the author is in the same
room talking to you".

I'd probably write a thesis about how sexist the book is, contrary to >2 skoobdo:'s comments, heh. Lady Chatterley, the broad who couldn't find herself until she had a good man to do it for her.

(jokes)

(sort of)

In re #1. If you are writing a formal paper, I might modestly propose that you actually capitalize the first person singular pronoun, contrary to the cutesy modern habit of not doing so. More substantively, you might mention the various allusions to cultural fads of that day. And again, you might mention that this really was a pioneering book, even if, as you seem to feel, there are aspects of it which seem pretty thin to our supposedly emancipated age Then too, you might also mention the immortal Brendan Behan, who climbed on stage during the production of one of his own plays and sang "I'm Lady Chatterley's lover, she's the only girl for me!"

You could do a paper on the critical reaction to the novel, and the struggle to publish it. It was one of the novels which challenged the prudish censorship of the time. Like The Satanic Verses and other controversial novels, it's more famous for the reaction to it, than it perhaps deserves to be, on its own merits.

If it were me writing the paper, I might try to contrast it with Forster's Maurice and do something about the gamekeeper as a figure of male erotic fantasy (maybe throwing in a bit of Surtees or John Buchan or something equally unerotic to liven things up). But you could also have fun with Sir Clifford's wound and Parsifal, if you were that way inclined. You have to find something in the book that particularly interests you, otherwise it is liable to turn into a very dull and unoriginal paper. Your tutors have probably read a thousand versions of town vs. country and physical vs. spiritual.

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You meant to say "after the First World War", of course!

The book was put on trial in UK sometimes in the sixties and being banned for circulation.It was controversial novel as pointed out by madpoet.

To those who were not born at that time or too young to understand the news and headlines made about the book , find reading this article interesting.

http://guardian.co.uk/books/2010/oct/22/dh-lawrence-lady-chatterley-trial

Ultimately the court case came to overshadow the content, message and social commentary of the novel . why not a paper contrasting LCL with a couple of other Lawrence novels ? or a paper on the economic and social roots of the themes in the novel? good luck .

Never wrote a professional thesis here but way back before "electronic writing" the rumor was they weighed the thesis and then scanned a few pages ;-)

But that could have been just for undergraduates.

9: It's how they measure the worth of Stephen King novels.

The book was also widely pirated. So much so that when Lawrence complained to one publisher, they were so embarrassed they paid him royalties. There's a good essay on the book by Lawrence in À propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover and Other Essays.