women-in-love-精华版加心得.ppt

Women in love written by -D.H.Lawrence David Herbert (D. H.) Lawrence, whose fiction has had a profound influence on twentieth-century literature. His father was an illiterate coal miner, his mother a genteel schoolteacher determined to lift her children out of the working class. His parents unhappy marriage and his mothers strong emotional claims on her son later became the basis for Lawrences Sons and Lovers (1913), one of the most important autobiographical novels of this century.? Women in Love(1920) is a sequel to his earlier novel?The Rainbow?(1915), and follows the continuing loves and lives of the Brangwen sisters, Gudrun and Ursula. Gudrun Brangwen, an artist, pursued a destructive relationship with Gerald Crich, an industrialist. Lawrence contrasts this pair with the love that develops between Ursula and Rupert Birkin, an alienated intellectual who articulates many opinions associated with the author. The emotional relationships thus established are given further depth and tension by an intense psychological and physical attraction between Gerald and Rupert. The novel ranges over the whole of British society before the time of the?First World War?and eventually ends high up in the snows of the?Tyrolean Alps. Ursulas character draws on Lawrences wife Frieda, and Gudrun on?Katherine Mansfield, while Rupert Birkin has elements of Lawrence himself, and Gerald Crich of Mansfields husband,?John Middleton Murry. As with most of Lawrence‘s works,?Women in Love?caused controversy over its sexual subject matter. One early reviewer said of it, “I do not claim to be a literary critic, but I know dirt when I smell it, and here is dirt in heaps—festering(溃烂), putrid heaps which smell to high Heaven.“ ?It also later stirred criticism for its portrayal of love, denounced as chauvinistic（沙文主义） and centered upon the phallus by?Simone de Beauvoir?in?The Second Sex. Plot summary Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen are two sisters living in the Midl