Representation of nature in D.H. Lawrence's women in love and the plumed serpent and Virginia Woolf's the voyage out and Orlando: a biography

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The present study lays bare the relationship between nature and the individual in the novels of D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf through an analysis of their uses of natural images. It starts with an overview of the different view points of different critics who have studied these writers’ uses of nature and the way these writers treat nature. This critical overview eventually affirmed that the relationship between the individual and nature is central to these writers’ uses of nature. Being modernist writers, D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf are both interested in the psychology of individuals. Although they differ in their ways of depiction, they employ natural imagery to depict the psychology of the individuals, which can be defined as their Romantic sensibility toward nature. In both writers, though nature is more central to Lawrence’s works than to those of Woolf’s, nature is of great importance in the creation and representation of characters. Through their contact with nature, their characters experience self-realization as they reveal their hidden selves and as they find ties between their selves and nature. More specifically, this study tries to examine how Lawrence and Woolf depict nature in order to reveal the psychology of characters in relation to their experiencing self-realization in Lawrence’s Women in Love (1920) and The Plumed Serpent (1926) and Woolf’s The Voyage Out (1915) and Orlando: A Biography (1928).

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/19811

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Ş. Akdoğan, “Representation of nature in D.H. Lawrence’s women in love and the plumed serpent and Virginia Woolf’s the voyage out and Orlando: a biography,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2010.