Clifford and Constance a Love that Started Wrong!

Lady Chatterley’s Lover is not about a love that has gone wrong it is about a love that never started. Constance, a young vibrant sexual advanced woman marries Clifford and young man with an old mind and sexual interests. Constance should have never married Clifford and Clifford should have never married Constance. Someone might say that opposites attract but in this situation they don’t stay happy. Once Clifford comes home from the war, Clifford and Constance became roommates at best. Constance thought progressively about life, wanted to be her partners equal and wanted all the love and passion that life has to offer. Clifford on the other hand was very staunch and cold. He thought passion was reading or writing a book. Sex was of little interest to him before he got hurt and was not possible after he came home from the war.
Clifford lived his life of writing and business and Constance lived her life with affairs of great passion and sexual encounters. Both knew of each other lives and continued to be married in name only.
Lady Chatterley’s Lover was a very interesting take on a woman that lived before her time. She had the ideas of a woman that should be living in the year 2007. She was comfortable with her sexuality and experienced things that her aristocratic friends I am sure never even thought about much less did. She thought of herself as an equal to men, and she wanted a partnership with a man. She was not happy with just being married to a name. She wanted passion, passion and more passion. Unfortunately, Constance married a man that couldn’t even spell passion.

A Passage in India

A Passage to India was an insightful writing about the weak and the powerful. History continues to repeat itself through this book. The British people taking advantage of the weak, instead of lending a hand. Power makes many people mean and unfeeling towards people that are in need of help. The British just viewed the Indian people as servants; they really didn’t give them a place of value.
A Passage to India does however give you an opportunity to look at yourself and the way that you treat others. I think many of us need a reality check from time to time so that we can keep our hearts and minds grounded.

Clarissa

I liked Clarissa in this writing, because she is a survivor, and she did what she had to do in order to make a life for herself. Everyone is so concerned that she still has feelings for Peter. But I still have feelings for the girl that I first fell in love with and I might think about her from time to time, but it still doesn't mean that I don't want to be with someone else.

1900 British Novels Week 2

Well we are in week two and have experienced some great discussions concerning the book A Portrait of the Artist of a Young Man.
Some people considered John Dowell as a naive man with many fault and short comings. However I didn't view him like that. I saw a man that was in love with a woman that was in love with herself. I saw a man that was loyal to his friends but treated him with disloyalty.
I think John Dowell was a man that was not perfect, but I don't feel he deserved the torture that his friends and family put him through. It would take a strong man to put up with his wife. I have to admire him for that.
A Portrait of the Artist of a Young Man was probably not my favorite reading, but I did spark a great deal of conversation about his religion or lack their of.

Potrait of the Artist as a Young Man

I think the first five chapters are not as difficult as we have tried to make it. Stephen grew up in a home that tried to make him believe their thoughts not his own. Stephen experienced difficulties in school, like most. Stephen realized at some point that his views and his parents view were not the same. He had a difficult time with women. His life was full of struggles like most of us have. He had the ability to be a great writer, but had not fully achieved that YET! His life was full of ups and downs. I think Stephen was somewhat common.