Comparing Orwell And D. H. Lawrence

INTRODUCTION AND METHODOLOGY

George Orwell and D. H. Lawrence, although not directly connected in term of mutual or unilateral influence between their works as a whole, shared the same liberal opinion about the vitality of life and nature culminating in sex.
Regardless of the fact that their works are apart nearly 30 years, both of them were influenced by the same alarming circumstances present during and after the First World War.
In an era marked by political oppression and class conservatism, Orwell and Lawrence stand out among British writers for having identified in sex - not understood here as carnal conjunction, but as the vital ground of being - a point of resistance and reconstruction of the human spirit against widespread mass brutality

H. LAWRENCE

The story is set in England in the post First World War and centers around four characters: the Gudrun sisters and Ursula, industrial Gerald and his friend Rupert Birkin. The tough Gerald begins a love affair with Gudrun released, but their lack of harmony and the competition between their possessive personalities make the relationship a failure. In other hand, Birkin, while keeping his feelings for his friend (not so) hidden, gets involved with Ursula, whom he believes to love; but the heterosexual union, even happy, it is not enough.
The book presents various topics related to the different conceptions each person has about love, but what stands out is the sex-sentimental confusion of Rupert. His interest in people of the same sex is not limited to physical desire; it has a spiritual nature. To feel complete, Rupert needs to love and be loved by a woman and a man; the two loves would never compete – they would be complementary. His drama is exactly not finding a way to make this happen.
The most simplistic readings reduce his dilemma to a mere difficulty in assuming his sexuality, but what Lawrence proposes goes beyond: it is the existence of another loving category, which escapes the basic