ABSTRACT
Lawrence is too often regarded as an apostle only of a revitalized normality; but his meanings are sometimes less simple, and after narrating a number of normal sexual encounters between Lady Chatterley and Mellors the story reaches its climax in an engagement of a different kind. Only Lawrence's 'passion', that is his prophetic fervour, can clear him of the charge of 'the crudest sexuality'; and yet 'not one person in a thousand' would decide that the actions in question 'were anything but the crudest kind of sexuality'. Lawrence, says Murry, seems to be 'demanding a new kind of physical contact' accompanied by 'fear and terror'. Murry correlates his discussion of Women in Love with three of Lawrence's poems: New Heaven and Earth, Elysium and Manifesto. Both Lawrence and Joyce labour to interpret and redeem man in natural and human terms.
