Adultery in the Novels Lady Chatterley’s Lover and A Room with a View

Abstract

A quest for an appropriate, passionate partner is the urge for love or just a caprice. It generates either a plot or a character. The present paper pursues two main goals. First, it shows that in both novels: Lady Chatterley’s Lover and A Room with a View, main characters Connie, later Lady Chatterley and Lucy Honeychurch, respectively, are all but immoral women who lack a real, passionate touch − and this is the way they are mastering the plot throughout. They personify two impressive young ladies of the time, well-educated, broad-minded, who oppose the limitations put on their sex. Second, it argues that all the money and titles of this world cannot displace the delight of love, that is, discourse shall never displace a plot. The paper also shows that according to the discourse, plot and story of these novels there could be something higher, better than a sheer materialistic world. For this hypothesis, I used the methodologies of theoretical psychoanalysis and semiotics (psychic economy).