YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN... AS ANIMALS:

ON THE ALLEGORIES IN LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVE

Abstract

This work presents a reading of  D.H. Lawrence’s novel “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”, analysing the excerts in which there are animal allegories. These allegories are counterpoints to the fascination for mechanization that prevails in the beginning of the twentieth century, when the plot takes place. The mechanization is represented by Clifford’s wheelchair. Although it is overvalued by its owner, the wheelchair appears, in the novel, with limitations and in scenes where animals and human beings have better performance than it. The objective of this text is to highlight how the animal allegories, in opposition to the limitations of the wheelchair, have, in Lawrence’s novel, the function of represent the characters’ desire of having somebody or something to obey them. The allegories also represent the characters’ urge for a new life, which is the essence of the novel. The conclusion was that the animal allegories point out to the characters’ expectations for themselves and for the others. That’s why the animal allegories change in the course of the plot, according to the personal changes of the characters