Can you give me the synopsis of this novel 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'?

Answer 1

A book most notable for the controversy surrounding its publication, Lady Chatterley's Lover underwent various printings due to its sexual content: it was published privately in Florence in 1928, in a bowdlerized version in London in 1932 and finally unexpurgated by Grove Press in America in 1959. It was also Lawrence's last novel.

It is the story of Connie, Constance Reid, who marries Sir Clifford Chatterley in 1917 only to have him wounded in the war such that he must be confined to a wheelchair permanently soon afterwards. After a brief affair with Michaelis the playwright that leaves her unsatisfied, Lady Chatterley enjoys an extremely passionate relationship with Oliver Mellors, the gamekeeper on their estate. The later stages of the novel move onto the issue of her pregnancy by Mellors and her trip to Venice to disguise the true parentage of the child. The truth is eventually uncovered and the novel ends with a sense of fulfillment for both Lady Chatterley and Mellors although the situation is never fully resolved. The story and its sentiments suggest that the sexual relationship is the most profound of all and that it may be debased either by treating it lightly or by viewing it with shame (the attitudes seemingly taken by young and old respectively). The main reason for the censorship of the book in England was the unprecedented unrestrained and explicit language used to describe the Mellors affair.

Answer 2

A very well known bannd book, it concerns a young married woman, Constance (Lady Chatterley), whose upper-class husband has been paralyzed and rendered impotent. Her sexual frustration leads her into an affair with the gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. This novel is about Constance's realization that she cannot live with the mind alone, she must also be alive physically.

The book is available online at project gutenburg and is is most definitely worth the read. Pax - C.

Answer 3

There are basically 3 major characters, Connie, Clifford and Mellors. Clifford comes back from the war paralyzed from the waist down, but he desires an heir to Wragby, the estate they were living in. He encourages Connie to have an affair so that they can raise up the child as theirs.

Connie, however, meets Oliver Mellors, their gamekeeper and took him for her lover. This was a controversy because Mellors was from a lower social class. So if you're talking about synopsis, that's basically it.

It may seem to be frivolous and superficial, but there were many important points that were brought up. The function of sex, for instance, and the higher class and their pretentious intellectualism seem to come across as being highly sterile and impotent. Mellors, although from a lower class, was educated and highly virile, suggesting that there was more of a life in the lower class as compared to the higher class society.

Answer 4

On one level the novel is about a rich bored woman who marries a boring snobby husband who gets injured in World War 1 and returns home paralysed and unable to fulfill her sexual needs. On the estate that they live on there is a gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors, who on the surface appears to be a bit rough around the edges and of course is of working class origins. Connie on her walks in the forest ,spies him at having a wash. She is attracted to him physically and uses the excuse of visiting to see the chickens hatch as a way of having contact with him. He is at first surly and unresponsive to her but he starts to see her more as a woman rather than Lady Chatterly. They begin an affair that is very passionate and Connie starts to explore more of the earthy side of her nature and Mellors starts to show that he is intelligent and a worthy match for her. The husband and his nurse start to become suspicious when Connie's walks take longer and longer. Connie discovers she is pregnant and she thinks initially that the husband will accept the child but Mellors wants her and the child to be with him. Som Connie must make choices stay in a loveless marriage and enjoy the status and comforts of being Lady Chatterly or divorcing, creating a scandal and running off with Mellors to Canada.
This a multi-layered novel that deals with social class, personal identity, sexual fuflfillment, the effects of industrialisation. There are probably a million websites that explore these themes and others.

Answer 5

Awe, come on ~~~ read it ~~~ you'll enjoy it, honest.

As is true with most books ~~~ just get past the first couple of chapters and you'll be hooked.

Answer 6

It's a hot book. Why don't you just read it?

Answer 7

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