A Critical Response to Lady Chatterley's LoverDH Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover examines the human condition in the modern age. Through the experiences of the novel's characters, Lady Chatterley's Lover advances techniques for dealing with the modern world: withdrawing from society and engaging in phallic sex. However, the application of these techniques is problematic since phallic sex requires abandonment of social conventions, while withdrawal from society conflicts with phallic sex. Lawrence's tactics of withdrawing from society and engaging in phallic sex are a response to the conditions he perceived in England. A problem that plagues the English in Lawrence's novel is the pressure of social conventions that lead individuals to lead unhappy lives. For example, Lawrence examines the lives of miners: "The iron and coal had eaten deep into the bodies and souls of men" (159). Iron and coal are also a reference to the capitalist-industrial complex that runs the coal mine, making it clear that it is capitalist values ​​that devour men. The village of Tevershall reflects the state of its builders: "The absolute denial of natural beauty, the absolute denial of the joy of life, the absolute absence of the instinct for beautiful beauty which every bird and animal possesses, the utter death man's intuitive faculty was frightening" (152). Both people and their homes have been deformed by modernity. The narrator summarizes the consequences of modern society for the miners and the English people: "...a new human race, too conscious monetarily and socially and politically, dead from the spontaneous intuitive side, but dead. Half-corpses, all t...... middle of paper ......f phallic sex. Two strategies that DH Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover offers for dealing with the modern world are phallic sex and withdrawal from society. Unfortunately, the ideal of phallic sex is difficult to achieve due to the need to abandon social conventions, while retreating from society's conflicts with phallic sex offers unconventional methods of dealing with modern life, however, a reader who desires apply them ideas must keep in mind that no amount of sex or isolation can solve the problems plaguing modern society Works Cited Lawrence, DH The Lover by Michael Squires New York: Penguin Books, 1994. About 'L. 'Lady Chatterley's lover'". Lady Chatterley's lover. Ed. Michele Scudieri. New York: Penguin Books, 1994.