The themes of Lawrence's literary works are diverse and interrelated. He had long declared: Blood and flesh are wiser than intelligence. At the same time, he also claimed to be skeptical of "the mind." He hated industrialism. In the novels "Sons and Lovers", "Women in Love" and "Lady Chatterley's Lover", he used the coal mining industry as the reason for the loss of human instincts among miners and mine owners. symbol.
He regards sex as an experience with a mystical color, although the theme of sex in his works has undergone changes and development. On the eve of World War I, he viewed the war as a battle of love and hate. Therefore, he focused on this theme in his works such as "Love in the Haystack" and "Sons and Lovers" written in 1912, as well as the two novels "The Rainbow" and "Women in Love" he wrote in 1913. All have meanings. After this war, he increasingly regarded "male tenderness" as the source of love. He developed the theme poetically and powerfully in such works as The Dead Man, The Feathered Serpent, and Lady Chatterley's Lover. A thread that runs through all his work is class consciousness. Characteristics: The union of a lower-class man and an upper-class woman. Upper-class men are usually sluggish and lack the strength of their human instincts. In Lawrence's writing, class differences show dramatic and powerful effects in novels such as "Sons and Lovers", "The Rainbow", "The Plumed Serpent" and "Lady Chatterley's Lover". The brush strokes further enhance the contrast between light and darkness in "Love in the Haystack".
Lawrence's world travels and his passionate hatred of industrialism made early culture more attractive to him. In "Saint Maur" and "The Feathered Serpent", he saw from the Indians of New Mexico and Mexico that their dark and mysterious knowledge was closer to the origin and essence of life than the educated minds of Europeans. . He was passionate about the themes of his work that were deepened by mysticism. This is expressed in other ways as well. "Brotherhood" - a compatibility between two men that is deeper than ordinary friendship, but not homosexual - has always attracted his imagination, especially in "Women in Love" and "Feathers". Snake" is shown. In "Love in the Haystack", the lack of "brotherhood" between two brothers is one of the reasons for the conflict, and the resolution of this conflict depends on the happy ending of a thematic battle designed by Lawrence . This is a battle full of love and hate between men and women. Another contradictory theme is the embodiment of Lawrence's "leadership dream": one man will be in a dominant position, while the other will bow to him as a disciple. Thematic features of "Aaron's Stick" (1992) and "Kangaroo" are exactly this. "The Feathered Serpent" (1926) is mixed with the profile of "brotherhood". Some of Lawrence's writing techniques help express his themes; others reflect his temperament and keen sensibility. Often a story revolves around two pairs of men and women, like "Love in the Haystack". In writing, Lawrence relied on inspiration. When inspiration came, he wrote with great excitement, and his creativity surged; when he lacked inspiration, he simply stopped writing. He never wrote notes, but relied on memory. When he begins to write and has a "moment of excitement," the past always unfolds vividly before him. The background plot of "Love in the Haystack" is based on this vivid memory: such as the recollection of the scene at the farm "Heges". This is where he and Jessie Chambers met and fell in love. He was not very particular about "the craft of writing novels" or "the craft of writing poetry", so the novels, poems and stories he wrote were always loose in form. However, because the life experience he expressed is extremely strong, it still has a compact and coherent effect. Among Lawrence's works, there is an important design. That is: he used, as necessary, the Nottingham-Derbyshire dialect spoken by his father and the people of Chambers Farm. In "Sons and Lovers," this use of dialect contributes to the contrast between father and mother. In his last novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover, the subject and setting return to England. The protagonist, the gamekeeper Melos, speaks both the dialect and the English used by the upper classes. His choice of words according to needs shows that at any given moment, changes in his mood and temperament are closely related to his relationship with Lady Chatterley. In "Love in the Haystack," dialect is not only a realistic device, but also, as in "Lady Chatterley's Lover," a language that expresses feelings more directly and more effectively than the upper-level languages. Strong English form.