D.H. Lawrence의 여성인물연구 = A study of D. H. Lawrence's Female Character : Centered on D.H. Lawrence's The Plumed Serpent

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This thesis aims to analyze Lawrence's female character of The Plumed Serpent.
Lawrence's view of woman is very important for him. Lawrence is called as an anti-feministic writer or a feministic writer according to his view toward woman.
When we devide Lawrence's literary history as four periods, he is a feministic writer except the third period. Lawrence became anti-feminist in the third period. In the third period, he turns his viewpoint into Anti-feminist in relation to two-sexs after the first World War. In his works, he has authority of Men; Women's obedience to the Men who has strong authority and leadership.
In The Plumed Serpent, Kate who married to Cipriano gives up her self and submitts to the phallic power of Cipriano. At the end of The Plumed Serpent, Kate appeals Cipriano to let her stay at him. The result is the culmination of anti-feminism. Kate gives up her self completely and submitts to the strong phallic power of man. Lawrence's man superiority is exposed through this process.
In The Plumed Serpent, when the man is active and dominative and the woman is submissive and dependent, the balance between man and woman is achieved. Lawrence strongly expresses his anti-feministic point of view that the man must display the strong leadership to revive the power and the right of man that is lost owing to the war and the woman must give up the self and the independence and submitts to the strong man leader.
Lawrence became anti-feminist after the first world war. The reason why he became anti-feminist from feminist is as follows: the first is that Lawrence has the antipathy against the movement of woman's right that emphasize excessively the emancipation of woman, the second is the ever-increasing participation of woman into society after the first world war, the third is the fear of woman who is independent and has the strong personality owing to the discord with Frieda.