Lady Chatterley's Lover

             David H. Lawrence's novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover, is based on his oppositional utopian vision. Although most people see this an ironic utopianism, it is more of a social reform, rather than an alternate world. The dialect and actions of the characters represent a utopian society, which is dedicated to pleasure. Lawrence is a very open writer when it comes to sex and vulgarity, which helps him to easily be able to illustrate this sexual utopia. In Lawrence's novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover, he expresses his vision of a utopian environment with the use of his character's dialect, as well as through his willingness to freely use the theme of sexual freedom and sensuality in his novel.
             First, Lawrence uses sexual freedom to give us an image of this utopian society. He first illustrates this in the affair with Connie and Michaelis a young playwright. This is the first of many affairs in which she is not fully sexually satisfied. The characters in this novel are spontaneously inventive, erotic, and unruled. This ideal society contains a number of traditional utopian elements. Like Theleme and More's Utopia, it is dedicated to pleasureistic elements (Voelker 4). Connie then has several unexpected encounters with Mellors where they have sex on the forest floor. Although they continuously do this,
             connie does not enjoy it until they have simutanious orgasms. The citizens are spontaneous in their behavior, and there is an absence of arbitrary convention and provision for unruled play (4). Here Lawrence tries to create the perfect society for sex and romance, utopia.
             Another way Lawrence shows his vision of a utopian society is in the dialect of the characters. Although some language might be slightly vulgar, most of the character dialect is very gentle and easygoing. In describing the dialect of the characters, Voelker writes, it is not midlands dialect that they speak, for, whi
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