Civil war (1642-1648) and the English Bourgeois Revolution

11.English modernism. D.H. Lawrence
The flourishing of Modernism dates back to the 20-30ss of the 20th century. In this period a new generation of writers appeared, who were called ‘modernists’. Those writers used a new technique “a stream of consciousness” – the unspoken thoughts and feelings of the character without resorting to objective description or conventional dialogue and often without logical sequence and syntax.
Modernists were influenced by the ideas of Sigmund Freud. Levels: - the Super Ego – the sphere of the social morals, conventions, laws, according to which man in society has to live.- the Ego – this is a part of human aspect which combines both the Super Ego and Id.- the Id – the subconscious, subliminal sphere of human basic instincts (like that of surviving) – Modernists. Very often the id and the Super Ego are in conflict. Such a conflict became the conflict of the new modernist literature. In accordance with Freud’s ideas Modernists attached great importance to the experiences - impressions – of man’s childhood. Their narration is very often based on associations rather than on logical grounds.
Representatives: James Joyce (1882-1941), Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930), Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), Thomas Eliot (1888-1965), Ezra Pound (1885-1972).
David Herbert Lawrence came from a mining family. Father- miner, mother- school teacher. Conflict between drinking father and intellectual mother. His manner of writing is more traditional in comparison with that of Joyce’s. Some scholars call him a realist. But the psychological subtlety as well as his basic understanding of man a subconscious being guided mostly by his sub consciousness place Lawrence among modernists. His novel “Sons and Lovers” can be considered a talented illustration of the Oedipus complex. His novels deal with sex and love. “The white Peacock”, “The Rainbow”, “Women In Love”. In “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” he showed the desire to love and be loved, Relations between sexes as a struggle. But because of public scandal he was considered to be a taboo writer.