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Lady Chatterley’s Lover D. H. Lawrence Tone Lawrence waivers between a harsh tone in response to society or symbols of society, Clifford, the coal mines, or the class system, and a softer, passionate tone. Lawrence handles Connie, the heroine, gently and presents her in the best light. When he discusses love and relationships he is passionate. This creates a excitement that uplifts and juxtaposes the novels darker themes. examples “Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.” “Constance…was a ruddy, country-looking girl with soft brown hair and sturdy body, and slow movements, full of unusual energy. She had big, wondering eyes, and a soft mild voice, and seemed just to have come from her native village.” Lawrence’s attitude towards his century is distaste and sadness. More than anything the Industrial age he lived in depresses him, with its lack of all things natural, including love. Lawrence deals with Connie, the books heroine in an affectionate way. He describes her “soft mild voice.” and provincial characteristics in a endearing, not demeaning, way. Imagery Lawrence is very descriptive of the people, places and events in the novel. He uses vivid imagery most notably when describing, the enormous cast of characters included in his novel, in order to highlight and show the importance of each one. What makes Lady Chatterley a “scandalous” novel is the sensual imagery Lawrence uses in intimate scenes between Connie and her lovers. “Perhaps they were only weird fauna of the coal seams. Creatures of another reality, they were elementals, serving the elements of coal… men not men, but animals of coal and iron and clay…They had perhaps some of the weird, inhuman beauty of minerals, the luster of coal, the weight and blueness and resistance of iron, the transparency of glass.” Lawrence describes the coal miners as a strange subspecies, part human, part rock. He uses this imagery to try and explain the unnatural nature of mini