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D. H. Lawrence and the Future of Christianity
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D. H. Lawrence spent his short, but striving life looking for the underlying impulse that would provide “the motive-power for a new state of things, when this democratic-industrial-lovey-dovey-darling-take-me-to mammy state of things is busted”(“The Future of the novel”). His critical concerns for Christianity and modern democracy also arose from this urgent diagnosis of the age, not from the need to advocate some atheistic, or authoritarian tendencies. This paper attempts to clarify what Lawrence’s unique perspective on our post-Christian era really is and where we can find the alternative way of being and believing, by focusing in particular upon his review on “The Grand Inquisitor” by F. Dostoevsky and his last novella The Escape Cock. Lawrence is different from F. Nietzsche in that he did not totally deny some clues Christianity opened to the modern democracy, while the other was quite emphatic in criticizing its degenerating effects. In the novella, the gospel story of resurrection is transformed into the protagonist’s adventure into the phenomenal world of the body. In this sense, the surging life of the fiery escaped cock forms a counterpoint to the story of “the man who died” and provides a phallic symbol to ensure the whole resurrection. Also, the healing and rising of “the man who died” through touch with the Priestess of Isis has deep mythopoetic significance, combining the Christian myth with that of pagan deities. Having touched the final reality of the other, he could realize the halfness of his transcendental mission toward Heaven and achieve the state of twoness in this world.
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D. H. Lawrence spent his short, but striving life looking for the underlying impulse that would provide “the motive-power for a new state of things, when this democratic-industrial-lovey-dovey-darling-take-me-to mammy state of things is busted”(“The Future of the novel”). His critical concerns for Christianity and modern democracy also arose from this urgent diagnosis of the age, not from the need to advocate some atheistic, or authoritarian tendencies. This paper attempts to clarify what Lawrence’s unique perspective on our post-Christian era really is and where we can find the alternative way of being and believing, by focusing in particular upon his review on “The Grand Inquisitor” by F. Dostoevsky and his last novella The Escape Cock. Lawrence is different from F. Nietzsche in that he did not totally deny some clues Christianity opened to the modern democracy, while the other was quite emphatic in criticizing its degenerating effects. In the novella, the gospel story of resurrection is transformed into the protagonist’s adventure into the phenomenal world of the body. In this sense, the surging life of the fiery escaped cock forms a counterpoint to the story of “the man who died” and provides a phallic symbol to ensure the whole resurrection. Also, the healing and rising of “the man who died” through touch with the Priestess of Isis has deep mythopoetic significance, combining the Christian myth with that of pagan deities. Having touched the final reality of the other, he could realize the halfness of his transcendental mission toward Heaven and achieve the state of twoness in this world.
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