Aristocracy of man in the novel of D. H. Lawrence -The plumed Serpent

Authors

  • Neha and Dr. Yash Pal Singh

Abstract

Relationship between man-to-man and man to universe is also one of the important themes of Lawrence novels. His novel ‘The Plumed Serpent’ is regarded as the fictional version of Lawrence’s theory of aristocracy power of man to transform the world. Lawrence believed that creative motives are the first motive of all human activities. Man is not confined to one direction only. Besides the sexual instinct of man which is important but is not predominant, man has his creative or religious instinct too. Ramon as an aristocrat was the main character of this novel who wants the Christian Church to stop imposing an alien religion on the Mexican people and support for a universal church of all religions. That must be like ‘a big tree under which every man who acknowledges the greater life of the soul can sit and be refreshed. Thus, he tried to transformed the lives of the Mexican Indians by motivating them to get into contact with the source of life through self-realization. The current study emphases on relationship of men to society for some great creative or religious or constructive activity

References

• Clark, L.D. Dark Night of the Body: D.H. Lawrence’s “The Plumed Serpent”. Austin: University of Taxas Press, 1964.

• Hough, Graham. The Dark Sun: A Study of D.H. Lawrence. London: Duckworth, 1956.

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• The Plumed Serpent: Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1983.

Published

2010-12-31

How to Cite

Neha and Dr. Yash Pal Singh. (2010). Aristocracy of man in the novel of D. H. Lawrence -The plumed Serpent. International Journal of Economic Perspectives, 4(1), 55–60. Retrieved from http://ijeponline.org/index.php/journal/article/view/153

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2010)

Section

Peer Review Articles
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