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kind of puritan. He is certainly not the common sort of puritan, even though he wa3 originally educated in his mother’s ingrained puritanism, through the Congregationalist Church, He is a .(1)* "Double Measure51'1 J puritan, or better say an anti-puritanical puritan, Lawrence lived at a time of transitions his first books were written while Queen Victoria was still alive and the spirit of prudery was still strong in English Letters, But the early, prudish, Lawrence became a prophet of a religion of sex who advocated the salvation through the body, and who was even called a sexual fascist, A puritan would not admit sex or the body in so high a place, but this special puritan, Lawrence, believes that sex has to be purified^ and tracing his doctrine of sex we can see that this "priest of sex" becomes, even unconsciously, a puritan who is against the old Victorian puritans* - Preaching his doctrine of sex Lawrence has gone probably too far, even for an anti-puritan, maybe "unwatched" as he says how "the novel comes out of one’s hands". As I am going to show, he goes into a dangerous area which for now I will be content to call "dark sex", diverted from normal sexuality. And this is typically a product of a puritan mind« I think we have to consider again his contradictions, his dualities. I have to agree with Jessie Chambers when she says that Lawrence overemphasized the importance of sex (he was 21 then), but spoke of those who suffered from "sex in the head"(ETJ XXXIII), which is a good •: statement, recorded by Jessie in 1935» five years after Lawrence's death and many years before R«Aldington's(1950) * Look for notes in the appendix at the end of this work.
5 identical reasoning: nThere can seldom have "been a more obvious case of “sex in the head1' than Lawrence himself, although he was always denouncing it in others; but then he had a habit of denouncing in others what he did himself.”(PGB 11V) On the same page we find Aldington's account of Frieda - (Lawrence's wife) being accused of the Lawrentian crime of ”sex in the head”. I would not call it a crime, but I have to admit that tracing Lawrence as an anti-puritan puritan I have found him guilty of "sex in the head” Although the Lawrence of Lady Chatterley's Lover is stylistically different from the Lawrence of The White Peacock,there are many fundamental similarities which derive from Lawrence's moral background. In the transitional period between these first and last works, (Sons and Loversf The Rainbow^ Women in Love«and the essays Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious)t I will try to give a sense of the changes in Lawrence’s attitude towards sex.:
Page 1 and 2: Mo ï»e THESIS D. H0 IAWBENGE: SEX
Page 3 and 4: Esta Tese foi julgada adequada para
Page 5 and 6: TABLE OF CONTENTS Abbreviations Mbs
Page 7 and 8: vil PGB - Portrait of a Genius« Bu
Page 9 and 10: R E S U M O D« H. Lawrence fez do
Page 11 and 12: Chapter I INTRODUCTION A, A, Victor
Page 13: 3 misunderstood sexual theme, is go
Page 17 and 18: 7 attitudes. In this respect, it is
Page 19 and 20: 9 rence ’s works in his book The
Page 21 and 22: Chapter II PURITANISM DEFINED Histo
Page 23 and 24: 33 The actual meaning we find in di
Page 25 and 26: 15 and lie alone right. Having run
Page 27 and 28: 17 presents the Freudian imbroglio
Page 29 and 30: 19 it is perhaps worth noticing tha
Page 31 and 32: 21 but in many other parts of the b
Page 33 and 34: or inhibited action we are tempted
Page 35 and 36: 25 And about Cyril (himself) he sai
Page 37 and 38: 27 The tall meadow-sweet was in bud
Page 39 and 40: 29 genitals. Certainly Lawrence's p
Page 41 and 42: 31 Of course, one can imagine how i
Page 43 and 44: 33 'Good Lord, Emily! But he is dea
Page 45 and 46: 35 cock just quoted in the two prev
Page 47 and 48: 37 frustrated: Mr, and Mrs. Beardsa
Page 49 and 50: 39 So far, Lawrence’s early views
Page 51 and 52: hi rainbow arch; it is the “toget
Page 53 and 54: ^3 Lawrence said in his defence: "T
Page 55 and 56: ubbing passage of The White Peacock
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Page 59 and 60: Chapter V LAURENCE AND PORNOGRAPHY
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55 he directly faced the censors an
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57 "the whole question of pornograp
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59 Girordias, (11) famous editor an
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61 secret".; Neither can be of any
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63 by January 1928 and is now widel
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65 So the general subject matter of
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67 The real theme, which recurs in
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69 built of rusticated sandstone an
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71 who want to dominate them, Mello
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73 question Lawrence puts to himsel
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75 the mechanical images are deflec
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77 lies, navels, and breasts* (It h
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79 Maybe they are the truth some cr
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81 heave her loins, and throw the m
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83 ’'darkness” is present in M
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85 11ty shook her to her foundation
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87 some kind of ’'arrest'** In al
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Chapter ¥11 CONCLUSIONS Host of th
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91 in a passionate love affair and
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93 distinguished from normal conduc
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95 presentative of most people's ex
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97 easy to say* I think that he has
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APPENDIX NOTES 1 Title of the work
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BIBLIOGRAPHY •* Aldington^ Richar
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103 Lawrence, D«E., (cont.) -"SunJ
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