D. H. Lawrence

David Herbert Richard Lawrence was a British essayist, playwright, poet, and literary critique that lived from 1885-1930. His harsh criticism of literary works was due to the impact of industrialization and modernity that he lived throughout his life which he found dehumanizing. In chapter 2 of Studies of Classic American Literature, D. H. Lawrence spends 13 pages criticizing the aspirations of Franklin’s self-perfection. Lawrence starts with the exclamation “The Perfectibility of Man!” (Lawrence, pg. 9). Lawrence sees the idea of being perfect as an unreachable goal. Which man inside us are supposed to perfect? What forms of education are we supposed to engage in? Who is the ideal man that we must strive to be like? Franklin? Roosevelt?…

D. H. Lawrence’s novel The Rainbow discusses a young woman’s inquisitive desire to explore the unknown world beyond her rural hometown. Unlike her husband and the Brangwen men who are content with the mundane nature of farming, the woman seeks liberation from her sheltered way of life. In her search for intellectual fulfillment, she is fascinated by the vicar, whose experiences and worldliness are beyond her scope of understanding, and resolves to achieve greater knowledge of the world. Lawrence…

perspective of psychology with symbolism of nature. It also suggests regenerating natural and inexorable relationships between man and woman, and man and nature to explore the mystery of life. F.R. Leaves in his great literary work about D. H. Lawrence. He tells that Women in Love prove D. H. Lawrence as one of the greatest literary artists, and Lawrence is a modern novelist and uses a lot of modern writing techniques to mold the characters. Woman in Love is especially a book which “has artistic…

The Analysis of the Three Poems “My Papa’s Waltz”, “My Father’s Hats” and “Those Winter Sundays” are poems which are real exciting and express the love of fathers towards their kids. In these poems they describe to us the friendship between children and their fathers. The poem “My Papa’s Waltz” explains how a young boy was dancing waltz music with his drunken father. The young son appeared to enjoy having fun with his father while dancing despite the fact that he kept on chafing his ear on his…

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley are two novels in which the themes of equality and inequality are explored extensively. The texts are both written by women in 1847 and 1818 respectively and both deal with gender inequality. Jane Eyre is also a social commentary on the injustices and inequalities of the classist Victorian hierarchy whereas Shelley’s novel focuses on the human rejection of unconventionality and the inequalities faced by societies ‘outcasts. The…

essay “A Psychoanalytic Reading of D.H. Lawrence’s ‘The Rocking Horse-Winner.’” Saberi states both that Paul’s complex causes him to “do everything to be with the mother sexually, and to make his mother happy emotionally,” and “Hester’s own sense of insufficiency spills over onto Paul, who is driven mad by his ever more desperate attempts to please her and earn her love.” This can also tie back into Lawrence’s showing of greed being a bad thing. Lawrence seems to use the two to coincide with…

“The Rocking-Horse Winner” in Depth Analysis D.H Lawrence was easily picked on as a child, he poses no physical strength and great values of creativity, nor did he enjoy associating with other boys, rather other girls. D.H Lawrence’s childhood essentially was the great start up for his huge writing career, often carrying elusive and unethical ideologies within his stories, plays, and poems. Within “The Rocking-Horse Winner,” Lawrence generates a common idea where money is essentially life and…

BoJack Horseman 2014, is an animated serious created by Raphael Bob-Waksberg. The series explores the result of the successes and failures in the life of the eponymous character. All the previous episodes has led to the emotional climax that is this scene. With a series like BoJack Horseman it is difficult to understand how others still think that animation is only for children or that adults view cartoons to revert to a childish state, like Kozlenko suggests. BoJack is dealing with serious…

The short stories of D.H. Lawrence and Shirley Jackson The Rocking-horse Winner and the Lottery, are classic fictional work of American history. Lawrence and Jackson supply their literary work with symbols and themes to get their point across to there audience. The Rocking-horse winner is the tale of an unsatisfied mother whos greed cost her much, and The Lottery of a superstitious town. Both stories agree with their unexpected ending. The Lottery and The Rocking-horse winner may agree with…

behaviors, compulsions, fixations, and the like” (Bohner & Grant, 2005, p. 1331), may surface. According to one of Sigmund Freud’s ideas, the Oedipus complex, a child may desire the parent of the opposite sex unconsciously. This usually occurs in the third stage, the phallic stage, of the psychosexual development at around ages three to six when the superego is developing. Since the child isn’t able to take the father’s place and he can not merge with his mother, the inkling is suppressed and it…