1. The conflict between the earthy,coarse, energetic but often drunken father and the refined, strong-willed and up-climbing mother is vividly presented in his autobiographical novel, Sons and Lovers.
2. In Lawrence’s opinion, the mechanical civilization is responsible for the unhealthy development of human personality
3. In Rainbow, it is the first time for Lawrence to make a conscious attempt to combine social criticism with psychological exploration in his novel writing.
4. Woman in love is rich in its symbolic meanings. Gerald Crich, an efficient but ruthless coalmine owner, who makes the machines his god and establishes the inhuman mechanical system in his mining kingdom, is a symbolic figure of spiritual death. The figure is standing for the spontaneous Life Force.
5. In his writing , Lawrence has experienced a strong reaction against the mechanical civilization.
It is the agonized concern about the dehumanizing effect of mechanical civilization on the sensual tenderness of human nature that haunts Lawerence’s writing.
6 Lawerence defiantly makes a deliberate use of those “four-letter” words in his novels, especially in Chatterley’s Lover.