The Blind Man

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The Blind Man

• Thesis Statement D. H. Lawrences ideologies
  are served as the source in his work
  unconsciously, but they also reveal D. H.
  Lawrences real nature and attitude toward
  homosexual, women and working class. 

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Introduction

• A. Brief Summary and structure of the
  text 1. Flashback-The background of the
  story 2. The Present time
  a. Isabels trip for Maurice b.
  Berties trip for MauriceB. D. H. Lawrences
  ideologies in The Blind Man 1. The
  ideology toward homosexual 2. The ideology
  toward women 3. The ideology toward working
  class

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I. Homosexuality

• A. Maurices and Bertiess relationship
  with manB. symbols of sexuality Ex. Stable,
  shaking hands, pulping sweet roots, the
  stroking of the gray catC. the image of Maurice
  the muscular physical description D. the
  interaction between Maurice and Bertie

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II. D.H Lawrence's misogyny presented on Isabel

1. stereotype of women's pregenancy
2. the scene of the reflection in a mirror
3. a sense of possession -- burden(two poles of
   Isabel's haracteristic)

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III. The primitive man vs. the intellect man

•  A. Differences        1. Occupation        2.
  Appearance        3. Characteristics B.
  Blood-consciousness C. The stable Isabels
  house dark light

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Conclusion

• Authors usually write their works based on their
  ideology that rooted in their mind and present
  their ideologies toward something in the works
  unconsciously. 

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Dualism in Lawrence

• Dark/light blood/mind animal/insect
• Moisture/dry sensuality/intellect
• Sun/moon man/woman male autonomy/community

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Terry Eagletons Views Lawrences
contradictions about organicism

• What Lawrences work dramatises, in fact, is a
  contradiction within the Romantic humanist
  tradition itself, between its corporate and
  individualist components. . . . Lawrences
  social organicism decisively rejects the
  atomistic, mechanistic ideologies of industrial
  capitalism, yet at the same time subsumes the
  values of bourgeois liberal tradition sympathy,
  intimacy, compassion, the centrality of the
  personal (p 158)

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Lawrences Views organicism (2)

• These contradictions come to a crisis in Lawrence
  with the First World War, the most traumatic
  event of his life. The war signifies the
  definitive collapse of the liberal humanist
  heritage, with its benevolistic idealism and
  personal values, clearing the way for the dark
  gods of discipline, action, hierarchy,
  individual separateness, mystical
  impersonalityin short, for a social order which
  rejects the female principle of compassion and
  sexual intimacy for the male principle of
  power. (158)