From "Paradise Lost"~1 To The Reconstruction Of "Arcadia"~2

The paradisal concept is an important literary tradition in the western literary literature, especially in English literature. D. H. Lawrence is descended from this paradisal conception tradition that all his predecessors have devoted all their lives to the pursuit of such an ideal society. In his early years, he formed his unique paradisal conception and then experienced both the disillusionment and reconstruction through his lifeThis thesis will offer a comprehensive analysis of this theme and a synthetic study of the transmutation of this conception in Lawrence's representative four novels(Kangaroo, The Rainbow, Lady Chatterley's Lover, The Plumed Serpent) so as to reconstruct the regularity of this transmutation, which reflects the process of Lawrence's exploration of paradisal themes in his different spheres.The introduction, after the literature review of the study on Lawerence's novels, comes to the emphasis on his significant position in the western paradisal tradition, pointing out the continuity and the variability of his ideal existence condition as well as his vagarious Rananim paradisal model.Chapter one focuses on the analysis of the causation and the idiographic disintegration of Lawrence's disillusionment with his early Christian paradisal order. The second chapter traces Lawrence's exploration of his new paradisal model, namely, the "notorious" disctatorship-political Utopia, and the whimsical primitive Utopia, in his middle literary years after his disillusionment with the traditional depiction of the ideal human habitat.Chapter three is engaged in a discussion of Lawrence's experiment on the revitalization and reconstruction of an ideal Arcadian paradisal community in accordance with his blood-consciousness philosophy, showing his ambition of reunifying the gap between man and natural world.The conclusion puts forward the idea that Lawrence's persistent exploration of the ideal existence of human beings in different periods, taken one with another, especially in his novels, framing a paradigm, namely, the disillusionment-exploration-reconstruction of his paradisal conception, turns into a reflection of his concern shifting from the contrast of natural state of human beings and mechanical civilization to the pursuit of harmony between man and the outside world. In accordance with this paradigm, all the works of Lawrence completed in different periods will obtain its metaphysical meaning for this study, and this will reverse the direction of present thematic study of Lawrence's works, clearing up the single sex-centered study, and all kinds of misinterpretation and misunderstanding.