Women In Love -Enviroment

Question 1

Pastoral setting

Answer 1

Gudrun dancing with the cows- trance like state
Change to pastoral setting from more built up surroundings
Highlights that being in the pastoral natural setting brings a joyful experience that can only be found beyond the world of manners, restraint and society- happiness cannot be found in current society

Question 2

Chair at the market

Answer 2

Symbolises a time that is now in the past, shows how society has moved on and is a reminder of hen English handicrafts were more careful and meaningful. Society has become mechanical and meaningless.

Question 3

Birkin and his transition to Europe.

Answer 3

The English political body is dead and spiritless, in part because of industrial revolution.
Imagines himself being nothing more than ‘lice’ crawling off the corpse of England- dead inside.

Question 4

Upper class environment and discussion of the fetish

Answer 4

Vulnerable to accusations of lack of PC.
Prejudices lurking that are entrained in society- culture in sensation.
Gerald hates the African sculpture- racist in nature
Inaccurate cultural assumptions through primitivism

Question 5

Setting

Answer 5

Based on Tregethern where Lawrence lived with his wife.
Set in Beldover where coal mines are run by Crich family- setting of industrialisation in the midlands.
Pastoral setting that has industrial culture intertwined- cannot escape modernist way of life.

Question 6

The mountain retreat

Answer 6

Place in the Alps near Innsbruck.
Travel there to get away from the dampness of England- over come by dreariness and wet.
Snow and cold symbolise something absolute like death- Gudrun drawn towards it but in an ironic twist, her appreciation keeps her from dying.