RELATIONS OF DOMINANCE AND EQUALITY IN D. H. LAWRENCE

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and corrosive death".
When they finish love-making Gerald is
renewed as if he had become a child in the arms of a powerful
and loving mother.
She again gave him life and he gave her
death.
There is also a sense of separateness between them.
While Gerald is sleeping, Gudrun thinks that "They would never
be together.
Ah, this awful inhuman distance which would always
be interposed between her and the other being!" (p.339).
Gerald and Gudrun's affair takes up to a certain point
another course when both decide to travel abroad with Ursula and
Birkin. In the Alps their relation reaches its nadir. They
start a process of rejection of each other which culminates with
Gerald's death and Gudrun's attachment to a corrupt artist named
Loerke.
This part will be analysed later on in terms of Gerald
and Gudrun's separateness and Ursula and Birkin's togetherness.
2. Cycle of Creation
2-1. Building a New World: Birkin and Ursula vs Birkin and
Gerald
Birkin is essentially a theorist in what refers to love.
When he leaves Hermione, the nature of their separation can be
seen in terms of Birkin's rejection of Hermione's possessiveness
in love: due to this he has developed a theory in which man and
woman must search for an equilibrium.
He rejects theoretically
the idea of one mate dominating the other (as Hermione had
dominated him).
The problem is, however, that his theories
hardly match with his practice.
When Hermione has hit him with the lapis lazuli he escapes
from her and decides to have a sort of 'purification' in nature