“The Fox”,
one of the most famous Lawrence’s novels, has provoked strong reactions from
people. So much so that it has received plenty of critics due to its, sometimes
called, “obscenity” and implicit sexual content.
Nevertheless, this novel has got something that definitely catches the reader’s attention.
What is more, I found myself reading the whole novel in a single afternoon
trying to get to know what happens to the characters. Furthermore, once commenting
the novel with some classmates, we got to the conclusion that what made us
being so interested in The Fox was the fact that we wanted to read whether
the couple finally got to express their physical love.
Being caught
by this sometimes brings about a sort of “forbidden” feeling. Therefore, it was curious
to read that that feeling was the reason why The Fox was banned in some countries:
it tries to make the reader see Lawrence’s vision regarding relationships as based
on human touch behaviour (also called Haptic
Communication).
All in all,
through The Fox Lawrence makes the reader think that something is going to
happen explicitly, however it never does. Besides, at the beginning the reader
tends to think The Fox is a love story, but at the end it is understood that
love is left apart as a second component for this novel.
I completely agree with you! I also talked with some classmates and we were all expectant to read sex scenes (ok! it sounds really weird) and at the end it produced us nothing, but for that time the reaction was different, it was 'shocking' at the point to be forbidden.
ResponderEliminarI really like how Lawrence exposes his idea in the way how to read the story. As you explained, at the beginning, the reader think that it's a love story, but at the end, there is no love in the story. It's just sexual attraction.
In my personal opinion, I found the book as the analysis that we had to read, that the story is sexiest and full of male chauvinism since it is a must that Henry has to be with March. But I understood the point that Banford has to be out of the way, because I finally hated her. Probably Lawrence wants the reader hates her, that's the way he wants that reader feels that in order to follow the story the way he wants.