Clifford Chatterley Analysis

Clifford Chatterley- Is the heir to an estate, Wragby, in the English mid-lands. He is Connie’s husband. They marry when he is twenty-nine years old. He is badly injured during the First World War, paralyzed from the waist down and rendered impotent. He had become dependent on Connie and needs her every moment. Clifford becomes a successful writer and then a powerful businessman. He declares his right to rule the lower classes, and he pursues money and fame through industry and the meaningless manipulation of words. He is concerned with preserving the Chatterley line and the aristocracy as guardians of tradition. He wants Connie to have a child with another man, Clifford believes it would not be important to have a momentary contact and it …show more content…
Her father was Sir. Malcolm Reid, a Scottish painter. Connie is the favorite daughter of him. Her mother had never been able to be altogether herself; she was a woman who had her own income and her own way. So, the girls, Connie and Hilda were free to do what they wanted. ’Constance, was a ruddy, country-looking girl with soft brown hair and sturdy body, and slow movements, full of unusual energy. She had big, wondering eyes, and a soft mild voice, and seemed just to have come from her native village.’ (Lawrence,1959, p.2). Connie uses her cheerfulness that she gets from her affair with Michaelis to stimulate Clifford, her husband. Then, she begins her affair with Mellors, the gamekeeper. The sexual activities that firstly are just to fulfill their desire of sex physicality, develops into meaningful activities. The fulfillment of the vitality of the sensual gives her courage to leave her unhappy marriage with Clifford and gives acknowledgement about Mellors to him. Connie’s decision to leave Clifford and choose Mellors as the part of her life, become the end of the development of her view about sexual