For example, Lawrence distorts the image of a cross to the point where it is reduced to its colors and patterns: "Beyond the Brenner, I have only seen vulgar or sensational crucifixes. There are great gashes on the breast and the knees of the Christ-figure, and the scarlet flows out and trickles down, till the crucified body has become a ghastly striped thing of red and white, just a sickly thing of striped red" (12). By reducing this cross to, "a sickly thing of striped red," Lawrence strips the reader of previous conceptions of the crucifix, leaving a raw and grotesque visual image. Defamiliarization by means of such image simplification enables Lawrence to reconstruct an image of humanity as seen through the eyes of an artist, emphasizing individuality as a key element in examining the present.
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