ain of property exchange and procreation to meet this end. However, even in the early nineteenth century, this shift was clearly beginning to evolve, making one's life centralised around the wealth you had rather than your sexual desirability. This can be seen in the works of the likes of Charles Dickens, with the increased sense of poverty and striving for wealth to attain a better quality of life, and Carl Marx, who tried to show how we were becoming too focused on the material. As we entered into the inner war years, the ideas were firmly set that relationships were for love, mental compatibility, shared thoughts and the ability to communicate, an idea that is not entirely foreign to us these days. Lawrence saw this as a way in which you lost something in the sexual relationship due to relating to each other on a different level and making relationships uncomfortable. He felt that introducing the idea of conversation to sex, as the new cosmopolitan bohemian set felt, was a misconception of it. Sex was more a question of what it was to be a human being, and this new view was altering what it meant to be by separating the relationship between mind and body. Lawrence believed that sex was just as fundamentally a part of the body as intellectual stimulation of the mind, not just accidentally there as something to be done.
             Lawrence was not a radical modernist, such as James Joyce or Virginia Woolf, who had set structured interpretations of what they wanted to do with the works they produced, but he did share similar views with them. He agreed that, after the war, culture and society had become morally deficient and directionless. But the thing he saw as the biggest threat to this natural being was the Industrial Revolution, man and machine destroying nature and making it something cold, harsh and dead rather than the vast, mysterious being it had been to the likes of Wordsworth and other Romantic writers. The sublime ...