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characters are striving for sexual fulfilment» This is true regarding
Lawrence’s own representative, the natural hero Mellors,
the "phallus-bearer".
It would be better if the secret of sex
remained a mystery, but mystery and secrecy are puritanical byproducts
of the dirty idea of sex, and Lawrence is, paradoxically,
an anti-puritan reformer in this respect, because he wants
to end the secrecy.
Two reasons prevent Lawrence from entering wholly in the
mystery of the nphallic consciousness11«,
One is moral and the
ether is physical« The first one is his unconscious puritanism
that persecutes him from The White Peacock period to his last
days« Struggling with his deeply-rooted conservatism in the field
of morality, he arrives at a peculiar paradox. Besides the leader
and the prophet, Lawrence as a preacher is an anti-puritanical
puritan, While he condemns the "grey puritans", he is a puritan
himself, not only because he cannot escape from his background,
but also because in his doctrine he preaches the "purification5*
of every human activity through a puritanic honesty, mentally and
materially. In Lady Ghatterlev{s Lover he^still the puritanical
author of The White Peacock,
Indeed, it is very paradoxical that a puritan becomes a preacher
for sexual freedom. Undoubtedly it is because he came to understand
the wrong side of puritanism in The White Peacock period«
R,Aidington, having been his acquaintance, is the best biographer
to talk about Lawrence*s strangeness of spirit and his controversial
nature, in the light of Lady Chatterley*s Lovers
"Even Lady Chatterley*s Loverf so desperate an attempt of
his conscious mind to fly from his unconscious puritanism,
is lowered by the fact that it was written less for delight