Lady Chatterley’s Lover was a ground breaking novel. It remains one of the most famous books ever written. Although no doubt it contains great literature, most of its fame arises from the numerous obscenity trials that took place in various countries of the world. Although once banned in most countries of the world, it is now available in book form almost everywhere. The story line to Lady Chatterly’s Lover is that Lady Chatterly loves her husband and she loves him. Her husband is Lord Chatterly. Being a Lord he has a small but regular income without working. He goes off to fight in World War I. He is nearly killed but survives. However, his war injuries leave him paralyzed from the waist down. Thus, he is not capable of having an erection or of engaging in sexual intercourse. His wife is reduced to pushing him around in a wheel-chair. Eventually, Lord Chatterly fails to realize that his wife continues to push him around not because she wants to but because she has too. As the wife of a Lord of England, she has social obligations that she cannot abandon. But she needs more than just a purely mental or emotional love. She needs sex. Their estate employs a game keeper, Oliver Mellors. The class difference between the couple highlights a major motif of the novel which is the unfair dominance of intellectuals over the working class. The novel is about Constance’s realization that she cannot live with the mind alone; she must also be alive physically. This realization stems from a heightened sexual experience Constance has only felt with Mellors, suggesting that love can only happen with the element of the body, not the mind.
ISBN: 978-4-87187-194-5
