ABSTRACT
As a writer suffering from a sense of being isolated from his native land where his works were banned, ridiculed, and at times furiously denounced, as well as from despair at the deteriorating world due to industrialism, mercantilism, the Great War, and so forth, Lawrence expressed a complex desire to escape from and change the existing world and envision a better one through his lifelong travels and literary imagination. Although Lawrence did not use the term utopia, his diaries, letters, essays, and fictions reveal his preoccupation with an ideal world, from his dream of an ideal society, Rananim, through his vision of ideal relationships founded on star-equilibrium, to his fascination with primitive societies.
