RELATIONS OF DOMINANCE AND EQUALITY IN D. H. LAWRENCE

crescent disrespect for him, he turns to the first child Ursula.
They form "a strange alliance".
It almost looks like the
alliance formed by Tom and Anna when Lydia had her first child.
The difference seems to be that Lydia did not destroy Tom as Anna
does Will. The little Ursula is a support to the man. It may
be said that as Will cannot master Anna, he has turned to the
child to master her, to exert a certain power over her. However,
Ursula rejects Will, as we shall see later, and he, unable to
stand her rejection as well as that of his own wife, turns to
seek pleasure in Nottingham.
He wants to experience new things
apart from the world of his wife's "trance of motherhood".
Will
realizes that "Save for his wife, he was a virgin... He wanted
the other life. His own life was barren, not enough. He wanted
the other" (p.227). Thus, he looks for other women. It seems
that the Brangwen men always repeat the past: first Alfred had
an intellectual mistressthen Tom tries to imitate his brother
and have a mistress but he gives up;,and finally Will reproduces
the same attitude of his relatives.
The girl he finds is an
adolescent.
He tries to master her, again as a projection of
his incompetence at home, but he fails.
The girl flees from him
and he returns home frustrated but, in a certain way, renewed.
He has awakened in himself the thirsty male who only craves for
sex.
Anna perceives the new man in her husband and likes it.
She was tired of the old, conventional and mystic lover.
For
her, this Will coming from Nottingham is a stranger and "She
liked this strange man come home to her.
He was very welcome,
indeed! She was very glad to welcome a stranger. She had been
bored by the old husband" (p.235).
The new Will is no husband.
He is the lover, the obsessed male prostitute: "He was the
sensual male seeking his pleasure, she was the female ready to