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submit and accept the physical appeal of Cipriano.
This desire
is certainly not hers but Lawrence's sttuborn authoritarian hand
manipulating the mind of Kate to accept the male supremacy.
Or
it could be said that what Lawrence is doing is 'remarrying'
Walter Morel, personified by the dark male Cipriano, with Mrs
Morel, seen through the soulful Kate.
The reworking of this
marriage is again only sensual but its aggravating point is that
Kate did not really want it and even her acceptance of Cipriano
sounds unconvincing, as if her very thoughts were being squeezed
in her mind to obliterate all forms of criticism.
She, who has
rejected the small general for a long time, succumbs in front of
the great and potent Pan:
Ah! and what a mystery of prone submission,
on her part, this huge erection would imply!
Submission absolute, like the earth under the
sky. Beneath an over-arching absolute.
A h ! what a marriage! How terrible! And how
complete! With the finality of death, and yet
more than death. The arms of the twilit Pan.
And the awful, half-intelligible voice from
the clouds.
She could conceive now her marriage with
Cipriano; the supreme passivity, like the
earth below the twilight,consummate in living
lifelessness, the sheer solid mystery of
passivity. Ah, what an abandon, what an
abandon, what an abandon! - of so many things
she wanted to abandon (p.342).
Is this the same woman who thought of a man walking half-way
towards her? Definitely, no.
Lawrence indeed invades her
thoughts to hammer in his point through these repetitious
sentences, that she must submit and have no soul of her own, no
body of her own.
All this passage seems perfect to the March
Henry yearned in "The Fox".
Lawrence in his attempt to remarry his parents cannot,
even now, help disliking his father in Cipriano because he
insists on stressing Cipriano's smallness in his uniform of a