Lady Chatterley’s Lover Quotes Bank
Animalistic and atavistic behaviours of men
“men lagged so far behind women in the matter”
“they insisted on the sex thing like dogs”
“two alien dogs which would have liked to snarl at one another, but which
smiled instead”
“stray dog’s soul”
“their queer, crude life seemed as unnatural as that of hedgehogs”
“lonely bird”- birds may symbolise freedom, eternity, escape. ‘freedom from
materialism’
“quick hiss of a laugh”- snake, Eden, inherent evil
“the real dog among dogs”
“Michaelis could keep his tail up”
“the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring”- red herring
“must I be chained in a kennel like a monk?”
“tongue lolling out of his mouth as he panted after the bitch-goddess”
“Michaelis was a heroic rat, and Clifford was very much of a poodle showing
off”
“she has wakened the sleeping dogs of old voracious anger in him, anger
against the self-willed male”
“becoming almost a creature, with a hard, efficient shell of an exterior and a
pulpy interior, one of the amazing crabs and lobsters of the modern, industrial
and financial world, invertebrates of the crustacean order”- no backbone
“like a cornered dog” and “like a savage”
“his penis began to stir like a live bird”
“Creatures of another reality”
“they are not men. They are animals you don't understand, and never could”
Critical talk/objectification of women
“you could hardly call her a parlourmaid , or even a woman”- woman isn’t
views as a sex, but a socially constructed concept
“she was too feminine to be quite smart” intellectual inequality
“just like a trunk on the railway that belongs to somebody”
“I’d be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her,
address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk!” legal, mariage inequality
“I need women sometimes”- only needs them for sex sex object
“the man has no use for you at all” objectified
“all the darned women are like that”
“shut it up, the false little bitch!”
“she was out of fashion: a little too female, not enough like an adolescent boy”
counter, some masculinity preferable
“Disappointed of its real womanhood… it had gone opaque”
“Her body was going meaningless, going dull and opaque, so much insignificant
substance”- she knows its substance but wants change- deformed desire
, “took all the service for granted”- women there to provide a service sex
“hurry up with the breeding bottle, and let us women off” objectified
“The women are positive demons”
“ They haven't the brains to be socialists. They haven't enough seriousness to
take anything really serious, and they never will have." intelectual
“so forlorn and unused, not a female at all, just a mere thing of terrors.”
“She, poor young thing, was just a young female creature to him”object
“she was only really a female to him”object
“Men were very kind to the person she was, but rather cruel to the female,
despising her or ignoring her altogether”
“he took no notice of Constance or of Lady Chatterley; he just softly stroked
her loins or her breasts” sex object
“Mrs. Flint had flaunted her motherhood. And Connie had been just a bit, just a
little bit jealous. She couldn't help it.”- adherance to stereotypes, women
biologically jealous due to maternal instincts
“supply wragby with a son and heir”- ‘supply’, commodity
“women who's never really been warmed through by a man, well, they seem
to me poor doolowls” objects
“There's no self in a sitting hen; she's all in the eggs or the chicks."objects
Gender power dynamics- hilda and marian being assertive (powerful women)
“there was no breaking down his external man”- like an armour, façade
“an almost mechanical confidence in her own powers”- cyborg imagery,
permanent and inherent power- connie
“she was up in arms, and if he’d been Pope or Emperor it would have been just
the same”
“she spoke in her soft, seemingly gentle way, but Clifford felt she was hitting
him on the head with a bludgeon”
“He dreaded… her female will, and her modern female insistency”- the new
woman
“She saw how utterly he disliked her, when she went against him”
“Ravished is such a horrid word! She said. Its only people who ravish things”
“how ravished one could be without ever being touched” illustrates potency of
men’s words and society’s abuse of women
“she liked handling him. She loved having his body in her charge”
“The new Achilles in him had a heel, and in this heel the woman, the woman
like Connie, his wife, could lame him fatally.”
“she was his wife, a higher being”
“female dauntlessness”- josephine
Madness
“a restlessness was taking possession of her like madness”- research how
female libido and desire was viewed at the time, seen as madness
“His life and activity were just insanity. His love was a sort of insanity”
“really maniacal”
“like many insane people, his insanity might be measured by the things he was
Animalistic and atavistic behaviours of men
“men lagged so far behind women in the matter”
“they insisted on the sex thing like dogs”
“two alien dogs which would have liked to snarl at one another, but which
smiled instead”
“stray dog’s soul”
“their queer, crude life seemed as unnatural as that of hedgehogs”
“lonely bird”- birds may symbolise freedom, eternity, escape. ‘freedom from
materialism’
“quick hiss of a laugh”- snake, Eden, inherent evil
“the real dog among dogs”
“Michaelis could keep his tail up”
“the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring”- red herring
“must I be chained in a kennel like a monk?”
“tongue lolling out of his mouth as he panted after the bitch-goddess”
“Michaelis was a heroic rat, and Clifford was very much of a poodle showing
off”
“she has wakened the sleeping dogs of old voracious anger in him, anger
against the self-willed male”
“becoming almost a creature, with a hard, efficient shell of an exterior and a
pulpy interior, one of the amazing crabs and lobsters of the modern, industrial
and financial world, invertebrates of the crustacean order”- no backbone
“like a cornered dog” and “like a savage”
“his penis began to stir like a live bird”
“Creatures of another reality”
“they are not men. They are animals you don't understand, and never could”
Critical talk/objectification of women
“you could hardly call her a parlourmaid , or even a woman”- woman isn’t
views as a sex, but a socially constructed concept
“she was too feminine to be quite smart” intellectual inequality
“just like a trunk on the railway that belongs to somebody”
“I’d be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her,
address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk!” legal, mariage inequality
“I need women sometimes”- only needs them for sex sex object
“the man has no use for you at all” objectified
“all the darned women are like that”
“shut it up, the false little bitch!”
“she was out of fashion: a little too female, not enough like an adolescent boy”
counter, some masculinity preferable
“Disappointed of its real womanhood… it had gone opaque”
“Her body was going meaningless, going dull and opaque, so much insignificant
substance”- she knows its substance but wants change- deformed desire
, “took all the service for granted”- women there to provide a service sex
“hurry up with the breeding bottle, and let us women off” objectified
“The women are positive demons”
“ They haven't the brains to be socialists. They haven't enough seriousness to
take anything really serious, and they never will have." intelectual
“so forlorn and unused, not a female at all, just a mere thing of terrors.”
“She, poor young thing, was just a young female creature to him”object
“she was only really a female to him”object
“Men were very kind to the person she was, but rather cruel to the female,
despising her or ignoring her altogether”
“he took no notice of Constance or of Lady Chatterley; he just softly stroked
her loins or her breasts” sex object
“Mrs. Flint had flaunted her motherhood. And Connie had been just a bit, just a
little bit jealous. She couldn't help it.”- adherance to stereotypes, women
biologically jealous due to maternal instincts
“supply wragby with a son and heir”- ‘supply’, commodity
“women who's never really been warmed through by a man, well, they seem
to me poor doolowls” objects
“There's no self in a sitting hen; she's all in the eggs or the chicks."objects
Gender power dynamics- hilda and marian being assertive (powerful women)
“there was no breaking down his external man”- like an armour, façade
“an almost mechanical confidence in her own powers”- cyborg imagery,
permanent and inherent power- connie
“she was up in arms, and if he’d been Pope or Emperor it would have been just
the same”
“she spoke in her soft, seemingly gentle way, but Clifford felt she was hitting
him on the head with a bludgeon”
“He dreaded… her female will, and her modern female insistency”- the new
woman
“She saw how utterly he disliked her, when she went against him”
“Ravished is such a horrid word! She said. Its only people who ravish things”
“how ravished one could be without ever being touched” illustrates potency of
men’s words and society’s abuse of women
“she liked handling him. She loved having his body in her charge”
“The new Achilles in him had a heel, and in this heel the woman, the woman
like Connie, his wife, could lame him fatally.”
“she was his wife, a higher being”
“female dauntlessness”- josephine
Madness
“a restlessness was taking possession of her like madness”- research how
female libido and desire was viewed at the time, seen as madness
“His life and activity were just insanity. His love was a sort of insanity”
“really maniacal”
“like many insane people, his insanity might be measured by the things he was
