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Rebirth through sex in Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover

D. H. Lawrence hates the effects of Enghsh industrial and urban growth. He also rejects the western civilization and warns his contemporaries' dissolution of humanity. He thinks that man is repressed by civilization and materialism. Moreover, he thinks that mental consciousness, such as the ideal philosophy, education, science and religion, perverts our instinctive self. As a result of that, our lives are inevitably tragic and he concludes that "Ours is essentially a tragic age" on the first passage of Lady Chatterley's Lover. To overcome our tragic aspects he tries to recover human instinct by physical union of man and woman. He urges that human beings should live not based on the spiritual consciousness, but on the true, primitive instinct. Lawrence hopes that the modern society could be saved from its mechanism by means of touch and tenderness. So he believes that sex can make a balance between man and woman, mind and body, as well as nature and human. Through soft touch and phallic tenderness he tries in Lady Chatterley's Lover to improve the sound and ideal relationship between Connie and Mellors, and to make them recover the primitive vitality in human nature. Connie suffering from her husband's mechanical and material life wakes to the physical love, and Mellors himself returns to the warmhearted love from the lonely isolation through sexual union. The harmonious sexual union between Connie and Mellors bear a beautiful soul and recover the human nature and primitive vitality.