D'H' Lawrence

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D.H. Lawrence

• Michele Bellissimo Matt McLaughlin
• Erin Lautenbacher Nicole Saputelli
• Mike Lay Alicia Manning

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Biography

• Born into poverty on September 11, 1985 in
  central England
• His mother had greater education than his father
• Mother-schoolteacher
• Father- struggling coalminer

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Famous Works

• The White Peacock(1911)
• Helped launch Lawrences writing career
• Sons and Lovers(1913)
• Based on childhood
• Married Frieda von Richthofen the following year

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Other Works

• The Rainbow (1915)
• Lady Chatterlys Lover (1928)
• Women in Love (1920)
• Sequel to The Rainbow
• Aarons Rod (1922)
• Kangaroo (1923)
• The Man Who Died (1929)
• Bold desription of Christs death

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A Sick Collier

• Themes
• Gender and Class Hostility
• Story shows how working affected genders in their
  marriage
• Presented in the story as a metaphor
• Both Willy and Lucy are victims of a system that
  causes people to blame others for their own
  problems
• When Willy has his accident, he feels inferior to
  his already higher classed wife. He blames her
  for his pain.

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A Sick Collier

• Themes
• Manners or Customs
• The dialect in the story allows the reader to get
  a full picture of the setting
• Understanding of the colliers social class
• Shows the difference in intelligence between the
  collier and the other speaking characters.

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A Sick Collier

• Willy
• Simple, rugged way of life
• Represents working class
• Has an accent that makes him seem lower class
• Energetic goes insane after being confined to a
  bed
• Lacking intelligence

• Lucy
• Represents upper class
• People said she was too good for Willy
• Forgiving
• Tall, fair, quiet
• Expected to adjust to a colliers way of life

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