Woman In Love - Analyse

DH Lawrence - Women in love

Character number: 5 (Mare, 2 girls, a man, a locomotive)

There is a crescendo.

The 2 girls are school mistresses.

On a basic level, it's an introduction, a way to focus on the girl's group

hoarsely =

The locomotive is personified

a steed = un étalon

The creature -> less respect

slender = mince

Ironic smile of his picturesque behavior =

Want to show to the mare that he is the master

recoiled = reculer

The locomotive -> makes a lot of noises, might break soon

=> Lot of aliterations!

The all text is built to create a crescendo

"as if wanted to see what could be done" => The locomotive "want to see" what the mare will do. It's personify in a mischievous way, as if played with the mare

"The mare opened her mouth and rose slowly" => Open the Mouth because she's afraid. (Don't say "she's afraid" because the writer wants to make a visual effect)

(chat, chien, chevaux , voiture => Feminine in english)

1st : Physical reaction, then emotional reaction

"The man" & "the two girls" in the same sentence = the two girls are associated to the mare's emotion

Even his smile, his face doesn't move = concentration

a hoof -> hooves (sabots)

Mare - Gudrun

She feels attracted to him "penetrate"

She repeat things twice => Intensity of the moment

Ursula =Outside herself

Gudrun = Doesn't want her sister to criticized Gerald

The mare transformation! (l.36)

Iambic Pentameter "Yet he seemed calm as a ray of cold sunshine."

"one after the other, one after the other" =>

"ing" forms, slowly, etc. => slow action

Mechanically => Mare loses her wild, she takes one the wild of Gerald

Gerald become part of "her body", like a centaur.

(Ursula) Even she is opposed to Gerald, she understands him.

"She's bleeding" -> visual signification of pain

Maybe sexual rape

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