The Bible Prototype Criticism In Lawrence's Novels

Lawrence, one of an influential west writer in the 20th centuries has been deeply influenced by it. His three novels Son and lover, Rainbow and Women in love involve abundant of the Bible prototype. In consideration of the complexity and deeper meaning of the prototype, and the main highlights of Lawrence works itself, this thesis mainly chooses the female character prototype of the Bible, the imago prototype of the Bible and the scene prototype of the Bible in his three representative novels mentioned above to analyze thoroughly, by adducing and contradistinguishing the Lawrence text from the Bible text, explores the connotative meaning of Lawrence's novels from the new point of view, digs religion culture connotation and history origin for inditing of Lawrence's novel, and unveils the inheriting of Lawrence to the Bible culture and the occidental literature history.The thesis contains six chapters.The introduction summarizes the history and the current situation of the Lawrence study at home and abroad, in foundation of refering to productions has been researched and discovering the blank on study, develops study idea and illuminates study methods and topics significances.The Chapter I is basic on the female image in the Bible that classified by Fry, from the three types as the revelatory type, the intermediate type and the Belial type to analyze the female image prototype in Lawrence's novels that is homologous to the Bible. The female image in Lawrence works has been composed a system that is homologous to in the Bible, which makes his characters in his novels reach a level with universalism and immutability, whatever on character characteristics or on character relations.The Chapter II discusses the Bible imago prototype in the Lawrence's novels from the paradise imago, rainbow imago and water imago. Lawrence integrated the imago in the Bible with that in his novels cleverly, which makes his novels have abounding and deep connotations.The Chapter III researches the Bible scene prototype in the Lawrence's novels by analyzing the sacrifice scene, the son preference scene and Paradise Lost scene. Lawrence analogized the salvation scene to enhance the mysteriousness of his works, and foil the character's characteristics. The analogy of son preference scene enhanced expressive force of the works as well as reflecting from the reverse side the miserable reality that the ancient harmonious families were dissimilated gradually. The analogy of the paradise lost scene connected human tragedies with family tragedies and human primogenitor tragedies of the Bible.The Chapter IV, from the influence of the growing experience and family experience, the religion, the western culture tradition on him, explains reasons that Lawrence used a large number of the Bible prototypes.The epilogue sums up the viewpoint of this thesis, demonstrates the production, and puts forward innovations and issues: the Lawrence works links with the Bible inextricably. Lawrence did not copy simply from the literary quotation and the prototype of the Bible, but exceeded on a certain extent. It is objective that Lawrence was influenced by the Christianism, but he was not an orthodox Christian. The Bible prototype used in the Lawrence works represents that the bible exerted a subtle influence on Lawrence's works on the one hand; on the other hand, it manifests Lawrence's religion conception himself. He pursues the integration of the spirit and the body, the combination the religious spiritual life with the unreligious dolcevita. He was trying to building and expressing his new religion conception which was callded Rananism .In Lawrence's mind , Rananism is the paradise and the Holy Land. In his all life ,he was looking for this home of spirit. Lawrence's Bible prototype also possesses his own characteristics and his unique elucidatory meaning and prototype.