D. H. 로렌스의 이원론과 문학 생태학 - 초기 소설을 중심으로 -

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D. H. Lawrence’s Dualism and Literary Ecology-Centered on The White Peacock, The Trespasser, Sons and Lovers-Jeong-oak Ohm(Wonkwang U)This paper attempts to prove the possibility that The White Peacock, The Trespasser, Sons and Lovers can be approached by ecological thought. In Lawrence’s early novels, he rejects the binomial contrast which becomes the tradition of western thought by his dualism. After Descartes, the western men degrade their body and enhance the spirit and the intelligence. This inner split of human being is different from Lawrence’s dualism and the oriental thought in which the spirit and the body, the human being and the nature is thought as organic and wholesome. The binomial contrast between spirit and body is deeply related with that of human being and nature. The degradation of human being’s body in the western Europe is led to the degradation of nature. Lawrence asserts that the revival of life-force of human being is the solution to relive the human being in the modern world.The human being establishes the net of relation between opposition and from the point of view that the Yin and the Yang are not in opposition but two faces of the same reality, the oriental thought of the Yin and the Yang, deep ecology and Lawrence’s dualism are in the same orbit.We can say that one theme of The White Peacock, The Trespasser, Sons and Lovers is the conflict between the character of male principle and the character of female principle. It is what we call the conflict between the ecological character and the character of the anti-ecological character. As a result, we can say that The White Peacock, The Trespasser, Sons and Lovers are the works that belong to the category of literary ecology. And we can regard that Lawrence presented the paradigm previously that ecologist advocates.