Women in Love | Topics for Discussion & Projects

Women in Love Topics for Discussion

What is the role of irony in Women in Love? How does it help characters make sense of their world and how does it become dangerous? What is irony's relationship with art? With truth? Using examples from the text, describe the uses of and consequences of irony in Women in Love.

How does D. H. Lawrence define modern machine culture, and what answers does he propose to the deadening effect he says it has? Are his solutions convincing, or are they flawed, in your experience and observation? How do the various characters in the novel work out his ideas about industrial modernity? Using examples from the text, describe the problem with industrial modernity, and the solutions D. H. Lawrence proposes.

What is the difference between the relationship with men and women and the relationship between men, in D. H. Lawrence's Women...
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