image of Thomas Hardy's Egdon heath had been reduced to dust and organic growth ploughed over for coalmines and factories. But, not only did it lessen the importance of the natural world, it also implemented a strong social culture that dominated the personal life of every individual. World War One was just the first obvious extreme of this intense industrialisation on life, centralising state and wealth closer into one than before, writing out the individual as having any main role and, rather leaving them to be eclipsed by modern society. Therefore, to Lawrence, to escape from this world in which you are subjected to a set role, one must flee England, Europe and the rest of the industrialised world and revert back to a more primitive, simplistic state.
             It is within these ideals that he sets his novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, with his attempts to show human sexuality for what he felt that it was, and how the society around it was affecting it. In the beginning of the novel, Lawrence gives us an overview of the early life of Con
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