The Blind Man

1. The Blind Man • Thesis Statement :D. H. Lawrence’s ideologies are served as the source in his work unconsciously, but they also reveal D. H. Lawrence’s real nature and attitude toward homosexual, women and working class.

2. Introduction A. Brief Summary and structure of the text 1. Flashback-The background of the story 2. The Present time a. Isabel’s trip for Maurice b. Bertie’s trip for MauriceB. D. H. Lawrence’s ideologies in “The Blind Man”1. The ideology toward homosexual 2. The ideology toward women 3. The ideology toward working class

3. I.Homosexuality • A. Maurice’s and Berties’s relationship with manB. symbols of sexuality: Ex. Stable, shaking hands, pulping sweet roots, the stroking of the gray catC. the image of Maurice: the muscular physical description D. the interaction between Maurice and Bertie

4. II.D.H Lawrence's misogyny presented on Isabel • stereotype of women's pregenancy • the scene of the reflection in a mirror • a sense of possession -- burden(two poles of Isabel's haracteristic)

5. III.The primitive man vs. the intellect man • A. Differences 1. Occupation 2. Appearance 3. CharacteristicsB. Blood-consciousnessC. The stable: Isabel’s house =dark: light

6. Conclusion • Authors usually write their works based on their ideology that rooted in their mind and present their ideologies toward something in the works unconsciously.

7. Dualism in Lawrence • Dark/light; blood/mind; animal/insect; • Moisture/dry; sensuality/intellect; • Sun/moon; man/woman; male autonomy/community

8. Terry Eagleton’s Views: Lawrence’s contradictions about organicism • “What Lawrence’s work dramatises, in fact, is a contradiction within the Romantic humanist tradition itself, between its corporate and individualist components. . . . [Lawrence’s] social organicism decisively rejects the atomistic, mechanistic ideologies of industrial capitalism, yet at the same time subsumes the values of bourgeois liberal tradition: sympathy, intimacy, compassion, the centrality of the ‘personal’ (p 158)

9. Lawrence’s Views: organicism (2) • These contradictions come to a crisis in Lawrence with the First World War, the most traumatic event of his life. The war signifies the definitive collapse of the liberal humanist heritage, with its benevolistic idealism and ‘personal’ values, clearing the way for the ‘dark gods’ of discipline, action, hierarchy, individual separateness, mystical impersonality—in short, for a social order which rejects the ‘female’ principle of compassion and sexual intimacy for the ‘male’ principle of power. (158)