The Image of the Weak Woman in D. H. Lawrence's 'Love on the Farm' | ||||
| CDELT Occasional Papers in the Development of English Education | ||||
| Article 3, Volume 68, Issue 1, October 2019, Page 69-92 PDF (396.65 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/opde.2019.131919 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Tahany M. Saeed El-Garhy El-Garhy | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The researcher's concern in this paper is to deal with the image of the weak woman in D. H. Lawrence's fictional poem 'Love on the Farm', written in a dramatic monologue to evoke the speaker's inner feelings and thoughts. The narrator is evidently a suppressed country female, through which Lawrence stresses the image of a passive, subservient wife. She speaks out to reveal mixed feelings of fear and desire within her, through relating her experience to an implied listener. Lawrence allows the reader to imagine the horror that controlled the wife's soul and body during a sensual meeting with her husband. Lawrence depicts the real feelings of this wife in her encounter with her husband to convey her love experience. Lawrence presents two contrasting images in the poem; the image of a passive wife; a shy, weak female who gives herself up in silence, and the image of a dominant, cruel husband in a patriarchal society in which man is elevated to woman. The image of the husband's supremacy is put in contrast with the woman's submission to reflect Lawrence's interest in declaring the inequality between man and woman since power is primarily male. The poem mirrors Lawrence's diverse readings and culture that formed his perception and stimulated him to present the male-female relationship. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| D. H. Lawrence; dramatic monologue; Modernism; Imagism; Bible; Aristotle; Plato; Friedrich Nietzsche; Sigmund Freud | ||||
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