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Chapter 4 discusses how in Women in Love the transport reference and symbolism exposes a war subtext reflecting Lawrence’s wartime concerns about restricted mobility, entrapment and the intrusive mechanization of society. Transport is co-opted in the novel, as it was literally by war, to fulfil society’s apocalyptic and destructive impulses, reflected in the novel’s positioning of mobility as a technological battleground for determining human identity. Humphries explores the relationship between literal transport and the imagery of transport that the war provokes within the characters. Humphries refers to trains, tramcars and motor cars but focuses particularly on imagery of boat, ship and submarine manoeuvre to reflect Lawrence’s concern with water and entrapment, which lies at the heart of his personal fear of stasis and of being surrounded by unseen hostility and threat. |
