Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Women in Love
- Introduction
- Form - Similar to a Realist Novel
- Standardised Time
- Written whilst outside of London
- Characters
- Ursula
- School teacher who leaves job for Rupert Birkin
- Out of the two sisters, she is the more "normal"
- Gudrun
- Twin sister to Ursula
- Sculptor by profession
- Dissatisfied with marriage to Gerald Critch
- Gerald Critch
- Inherits the local coal factory, replaces old workforce
- Represents the old Imperial ways. Ruthless with worker & horse
- Fatal attraction with Gudrun. Lover of Rupert Birkin
- Rupert Birkin
- Represents the views of Lawrence
- Seeks a true love that is worth much more than love itself
- Themes
- Nietzsche - Will to Power. The idea that
primary ambition is to achieve power, ambition,
success
- Attack on modern consumerism. Scene Rupert
chooses to give away chair. Does away with
posessions
- Rupert & Ursula as trying for the perfect human
relationship; a stable equilibirum, opposed to the
Will to Power