What Is The Role Of Women In Lawrence's Novel

Dr. Nveed Rehan

Shumaila Shahbaz

Modernism

22 january2018

Women Position, role, place in Lawrence’s novel

D.H. Lawrence was a modernism play writer and he wrote many novels like women in love, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Rainbow and many others. This paper approaches the women position, place and role in Lawrence novels. And I will focus on relationships of the female characters with men and how women survive in society. Whenever we see women in our society, we can imagine her different characters I mean to say in our society many people never give respect to women. Women have no rights in our society. And we can see man is always considering superior than women. Women survive as a lover, as a wife, as a mother. A woman is fetter in chain

A women demand all rights and independence in every aspect of life because she want to do every thing she want to do work and make her career, she want to do marry with her own choice that’s why a women in our society want to live independent and make her career like a man. Ursula is a main character in Lawrence novel which he discus firstly in his novel Rainbow and after that Lawrence continues Ursula character in his novel Women in love. Ursula is a young women and she want to live independent. She do something new, she want to face all problems of life and a main thing which I notice her character she want to face many questions: Marriage, love, money, place of women in our society and economic independence. She wants to find answer of all these questions. If we see Lawrence novel’s we find Ursula main character and important. Lawrence tries to discus of Brangwen and many other families but finally he close to discus about the character of Ursula in his novels. Because Ursula most important and feminist characters that carriage the most important questions in modern humanity. Ursula is the third generation eldest child of Brangwen. In the childhood she pretend herself very innocent but in reality she in not. And in her childhood, she tries to show herself independent and intelligent. She fights with society connections; she against the rules of society and she want to find out

She has her own opinion. Lawrence shows her character very different to another women’s. Even Ursula is not from rich family but she has her mind and rules, which we see, in her character. “As an adolescent, Ursula yearns for the world beyond and she believes that she has found the key to her freedom when she encounters Anton Skrenbensky, a young officer. Both of them are roused and excited to a new flame of life. She feels that she would be able to realize herself through this passion.”(P.2). In the text we can see Ursula different to others women’s and she has key to her freedom she was doing whatever she want. And when she meets Anton and she plan her life to spend with him and that’s why both of them excited. Ursula believes herself she has passion to fulfill her wishes. Lawrence shows her character different to other women’s and Lawrence highlight the different women in society through his novels. She is first women in Brangwon how has believe her self. She loses her virginity and after sometime she feels, she never lives with Anton and they separated. Here we see she want key of