title: D.H. Lawrence and modern destructiveness.
abstract: This article discusses twentieth century societal destructiveness as reflected in four key prose works by D.H. Lawrence--the novels Sons and Lovers, Women in Love, Lady Chatterley's Lover and the early travel book Twilight in Italy. Sons and Lovers, which projects the young Lawrence persona's struggle between life and death, partly accounts for a deepening sensitivity to life and death in modern society in Lawrence's subsequent works. It is seen that Lawrence's writings depict the perilous trends today towards the mechanization of our fundamental being, and the resultant life-threatening qualities of sensationalism and reduction of the individual inner life.
mesh_terms: D001293:Attitude to Death; D005197:Famous Persons; D005260:Female; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008093:Literature, Modern; D008297:Male; D012924:Social Conditions