Women in Love

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D.H.Lawrence
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Women in Love
  1. Introduction
    1. Form - Similar to a Realist Novel
      1. Standardised Time
        1. Written whilst outside of London
        2. Characters
          1. Ursula
            1. School teacher who leaves job for Rupert Birkin
              1. Out of the two sisters, she is the more "normal"
              2. Gudrun
                1. Twin sister to Ursula
                  1. Sculptor by profession
                    1. Dissatisfied with marriage to Gerald Critch
                    2. Gerald Critch
                      1. Inherits the local coal factory, replaces old workforce
                        1. Represents the old Imperial ways. Ruthless with worker & horse
                          1. Fatal attraction with Gudrun. Lover of Rupert Birkin
                          2. Rupert Birkin
                            1. Represents the views of Lawrence
                              1. Seeks a true love that is worth much more than love itself
                            2. Themes
                              1. Nietzsche - Will to Power. The idea that primary ambition is to achieve power, ambition, success
                                1. Attack on modern consumerism. Scene Rupert chooses to give away chair. Does away with posessions
                                  1. Rupert & Ursula as trying for the perfect human relationship; a stable equilibirum, opposed to the Will to Power
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