D. H. Lawrence continued to criticise the way of living in modern European industrialized society, particularly after the First World War. His criticism is based on his version of the severance of mind and body and the subsequent privileging of the mind in Western cultures.
I argue, in the paper, what Lawrence means by “nature” includes the unconsciousness in human beings as well as Nature. I show that the relationship between man and nature to fulfill each one's own self, which he lays the greatest emphasis on in his essays, helps us to be conscious that we are part of the great web of life in the universe. I point out, however, through analysing “five principles of life” in his essay “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine”, that his insistence upon the need for vital power may contain a kind of authoritarianism.
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