Dehumanisation and Mechanization of the  Working Class in Lawrence’s Women In Love

Pratiksha Dixit; Dr. Chaya Malviya

Pratiksha Dixit Department of English, Nehru Gram Bharti University, Prayagraj-221505, India
Dr. Chaya Malviya Department of English, Nehru Gram Bharti University, Prayagraj-221505, India

Keywords: Mechanization, Working class, Dehumanization, Industrial Revolution

Abstract

This study is conducted with the objective of finding out in detail the attitude of D.H. Lawrence towards technology and industrialization in relation to humans and human behavior and perceptions. The topic of this study is Dehumanization and Mechanization of The Working Class in Lawrence’s ‘Women in Love’. The primary intention of this study is to elaborate how the English working class in the mid-19^th century was dehumanized as presented by Lawrence in Women in Love and his resistance towards mechanization of humans.

During the mid-19^th century industrial revolution led to dehumanization of the working class of England. The working class attempted to gain their humanity back through The Chartist Movement, by political reforms and establishing good communication with the masters, speaking up about the miseries and the injustices and dehumanization of the working class. The progress of the industrial revolution during the mid 19^th century led to the dehumanization of the working class of England by numerous attitudes and behaviors of the employers and owners of the factories. Dehumanization included the alienation of laborers and workers by the masters who refused to give heed to the miseries and sufferings of the workers considering them only to be machines used to increase and pile up their wealth and fortune.

D. H. Lawrence in his novel Women in Love, by elaborating the human psychology and understanding, provides a fertile field of inquiry to find out his attitude toward industrialization and technology in relation to human behavior and perception. In this article the focus is primarily on the gladiatorial scene of Women in Love through the lens of Lawrence's appropriation of the scientific concept of allotropy to describe the constituent elements of human nature.

Keywords: Mechanization, Working class, Dehumanization, Industrial Revolution.

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Author Biographies

Pratiksha Dixit, Department of English, Nehru Gram Bharti University, Prayagraj-221505, India

Ms. Pratilksha Dixit is a Ph.D. research scholar at Department of English at Nehru Gram Bharti University (NGBU), Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh.

She is also a faculty of English Literature at IPEM International School & College, Prayagraj with 7 years of teaching experience.

Dr. Chaya Malviya, Department of English, Nehru Gram Bharti University, Prayagraj-221505, India

Dr Chhaya Malviya is an Associate and H.O.D, Department of English, Dean Student Welfare and Former Dean of Arts, at Nehru Gram Bharti University (NGBU), Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh.

She presented 22 research papers in National seminar, 06 research papers Inter National Seminar and published 12 research papers in per reviewed Journals, 01 book chapter and 01 book.

She was awarded for her distinguished contribution in teaching at NGBU.

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