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STRIFE, BALANCE, A WD ALLEGIANCE: '11,m SCHEMATA OF WILL IK FIVE NOVELS OF D. H. XAvJRENCK APPROVED: Ma j ox- P r of 0 3 s or / Minor P r of e r> s or f : IWJfv, lllreaSpr of c$e Department of English De?m of the Graduate School STRIFE, BALANCE, AND ALLEGIANCE: THE SCHEMATA OF WILL IN FIVE NOVELS OF D. H. LAWRENCE THESIS Presented to the Graduate Council of the North Texas State University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS By Teresa Monahan Fiddes, B.A. Denton, Texas August, 1968 TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter Page I. D. H. LAWRENCE: THE HERITAGE OF THE IRRATIONAL 1 II. THE NORDIC AND AFRICAN CONSCIOUSNESS: THE WILLS TO NULLITY 9 III. THE THEORY OF BALANCE: A GOOD TIGHT PUNT . 1*1 IV. CONTACT OF THE LEADER: PERSONAL AND COSMIC. 70 BIBLIOGRAPHY 92 iii CHAPTER I D. H. LAWRENCE: THE HERITAGE OF THE IRRATIONAL 125 "The mysteries practiced among men are unholy mysteries." 126 "And they pray to these images, as if one "were to talk •with a man's house, knowing not what gods or heroes are." Heraclitus D. H. Lawrence made the final break through the mask of Victorian prudery to gain a full conception of man and his role in the universe. His principal emphasis is on the restoration of man's conception of himsel£---a^.jinimal, an animal capable of conceptualizing, but essentially animal all the same. In attempting to restore man to the mindless state of irrational animism, Lawrence did away with the con- ventional idea of man as the perfection of God's created universe.
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