RELATIONS OF DOMINANCE AND EQUALITY IN D. H. LAWRENCE

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even deeply believe in himself.
Furthermore, no one can accuse Lawrence of dishonesty in
wanting to convey a particular message which would favor his own
intentions.
I say this due to the large number of open-ended
stories he wrote.
In "Why the Novel Matters", he says:
I don't want to stimulate anybody else into some
particular direction. A particular direction ends
in a cul-de-sac. ..
We should ask for no absolutes, or absolute.
Once and for all and for ever, let us have done
with the ugly imperialism of any absolute. There
is no absolute good, there is nothing absolutely
right. All things flow and change, and even change
is not absolute. The whole is a strange assembly
of apparently incongruous parts, slipping past one
another... And at its best, the novel, and the novel
supremely, can help you. It can help you not to
be dead man in life... You can develop an instinct
of life, if you will, instead of a theory of right
and wrong, good and bad (Beal, pp.105-7).
All Lawrence says, I take as true in his novels.
At the back of his
mind he may have had the intention to 'teach' something, but his
novels do not demand that the reader follow this or that path
because it is the best way to live.
beyond this idea of good and evil.
Lawrence's novels are
The main idea in what he
says is that he does not want to coerce anyone in a particular
direction.
And this is really true in all the works I have been
analysing throughout this dissertation.
None of them ends with
a 'moral lesson'.
The endings are rather an exposition of
contradictory feelings which show that, as in life, no one can
really achieve 'the end' with a happy solution for all problems.
Lawrence's endings express indeed his struggle to define his
intentions.
Let us then look at the endings of the fictions
analysed in this work, comparing them in order to analyse this
conflict in Lawrence.
We may classify the endings of the five novels and the