Aaron's Rod, Kangaroo, The Plumed Serpent 연구 : D. H. Lawrence 의 남성 우위(Male Suqremacy)에 대한 문제를 중심으로 A Study of Male Supremacy in D. H. Lawrence's = Aaron's Rod, Kangaroo and The Plumed, Serpent

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Lawrence was continuouly travelling, and had no permanent home. From 1919 to 1925, he travelled much and followed his own pattern of life, searching for some society with which he could establish personal contact. Aaron's Rod(1922), Kangaroo(1923) and The Plumed Serpent(1925), written during this period, constitute Lawrence's trilogy on the theme of male leadership, an important concern in the 1920's. These novels represent deviation from Lawrence's typical preoccupation with the $quot;bloodrelation$quot; between men and women, which is the source of great power and happiness in human beings. They are concerned with spiritual regeneration and with the possibility of salvation through charismatic leadership. Lawrence would replace the humanism of western civilization with his new faith in these works. He was trying to establish a Utopia through dictatorship of a religious institution. The relation between Lawrence's religious ideas and the whole of his personal, social and political thinking is integral. The revolution to which this leadership trilogy is dedicated is a revolution of man's inner values, out of which will naturally spring a thorough revision of political and social institutions. What he was seeking was not a form of organization, but an entirely new form of consciousness. For a new form of consciousness, man requires a new notion of the self.
In these novels Lawrence is mainly concerned with the subject of male supremacy in marriage and the necessity of founding the nucleus of a new society on a union between man and man in order to supplement the male and female relationship. To find a way of establishing harmony between human beings, Lawrence attempts to stress the thesis of submission by the inferior being to the superior being as well as women to men. Lawrence claims that instead of competition and struggle man should seek for the right balance between people, in sex, in politics, in religion. Lawrence began to realize that his quest was not a socio-political one, but a religious one. Seeking a new revelation for the world Lawrence finds it in the religion of the pre-Christian mysteries, in an invocation of the $quot;dark-god$quot; of certain primitive civilization. Just as his dark-god is the god of the sexual mystery, the god in man's own blood, so his social and political criterion is whether or not man is permitted his godhood. According to Lawrence, it is when man fulfills his sexual nature that he attains his highest human destiny and achieves godhood. These novels are all semi-autobiographical, as are his other works.