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Terrible things had happened to our world. And as we tried to rebuild it and bring hope back into our lives, there would be many things to prevent our progress. Yet we must do our best to get around them and continue living. This was Constance Chatterley’s use of the world. She had suffered greatly because of the war. And now her life would never be the same. In the year 1917 she married Clifford Chatterley, an English soldier, while he was home for a month west from the war. She was 23 and he 29. After their honeymoon he rejoined the war only to be horribly injured, Chatterley managed to stay alive, but he would never walk again. When finally release from the doctor’s care in 1920, he and his wife Constance returned home Chatterley’s childhood home. His father had died just before his release from hospital so Clifford was placed him as a master of the house. He then became known as Sir Clifford and his wife Constance lady Chatterley. Having a little money and no family nearby married life began a little difficultly for the couple. They were alone in a large sad home. Clifford no longer having the ability to have children returned to his homeland with only one idea to keep his family’s name alive by living as long as he could. Yet Clifford did not seem very sad. It appeared that he had lost along with his ability to walk his ability to suffer. He always looked to be in a very good mood. But sometimes there could be seen behind his bright blue eyes a strange and empty look that told of his feelings. It was as if something inside of him had died. His wife Constance has a look of woman from countryside, however, her family was quite wealthy and she had received an unusually excellent education. She and her sister Hilda had been to all of intellectual and artistic capitals of Europe where they learned through direct experience about art philosophy and politics. When they turned 15 they were sent to music school in Germany. They enjoyed their time there, playing with the boys and challenging them to politics discussions. The sisters felt completely free and happy. They, of course, feel in an out of love. But love for them is nothing compared the conversations they had with the boys. By the age of 18 both Hilda and Constance had each had several boyfriends. The boys the played and talked with all wanted love and sex from girls. The two sisters did not want the same thing as the boys. But they eventually decided that they might go ahead and make an offer to the best of the group. As they had expected, the sex was disappointing. The girls found themselves feeling less love for the young man after ones in some cases. They even felt hatred for the boys. For at times, it seemed like they had tried to take away from girls what was most important to them they’re afraid of. And more than anything in the world a girl’s purpose of life is to find and keep as much freedom as possible. Women had always known that sex was the least important in a relationship. Unfortunately man had always demanded sex like animals. What was even worse was that women had to give men what they wanted, because if they did not, just like a child, man would somehow find a way to destroy the relationship. However, giving her body did not mean that the woman also had to give up her freedom. In reality by allowing the man to achieve pleasure. Woman could do to thus man whatever they pleased. So by the time the war arrived, both Hilda and Constance had experienced love several times each. They however never felt in love with someone unless they could have a good conversation with them and sex could never happen without first having a highly intelligent talk. Eventually the sisters each found themselves the one they love. Hilda’s was a young engineer and Constance’s was a musician. During sex the sisters would come a close feeling they could give up everything for boys, but then they would remember that was only a moment pleasure and nothing to loose freedom over. Then the war arrived and the two girls were quickly sent back to England to attend their mother’s funeral. And within the first year of war both Hilda’s engineer and Constance’s musician were killed. They cried heavily but inside they have really already forgotten them. The girls then lived with their father and began to make friends with many students from Cambridge University who were young, intelligent and against everything. Soon Hilda got married to an older man who still associated with the Cambridge fellows but now worked for the government. They lived comfortably in Westminster and enjoyed close friendships with the best members of the English government. Constance on the other hand met a young Cambridge man named Clifford Chatterley who at the time was only 22. His family was much wealthier than Connie’s. He had just returned to England after having studied a short while in Germany to become an officer in the army. Connie’s intelligence and ease strongly impressed Clifford. She had real ideas about the world while he just followed all of the other young man in their hatred everything popular. He thought that everything around him was stupid his father, the government, the army and the war. He left his father when he cut down the forest to supply the military with wood. He had a big with his elder brother Herbert and his sister Emma. However as he left he started to see how stupid he himself was. Then he thought of Connie and how people like her were separated from the stupidest of society because they had true intelligence and healthy view of things. Then in 1916 Clifford’s brother was killed in the war which made Clifford next in line to replace his father. Sir Chatterley whenever he died as the master of Wragby Hall the idea of replace frightened him. He and his father were such different people. Sir Chatterley is a man of England while Clifford wanted to be like Connie a man of the world. It seemed possible and yet it was going to one day happen. Sir Chatterley demanded that Clifford to marry and have a son who could carry Chatterley’s name into the future. Clifford did not take any of that very seriously but then the war made Clifford begin to feel the need for something safe and comfortable. He found that the time had come to marry. So he married Constance in that horrible year in 1917. At the time he had never had sex before however their love for each other was so strong that sex seemed unimportant even to Clifford who proved to be very different from most man. For him sex was just a small part of the relationship that he could easily do with or without. Connie soon had a little more motivation for sex because she decided that she would like to have a child. But as we know in 1918 Clifford’s body was badly damaged and no child could ever come after that and then Sir Chatterley died from sadness. | 
发表于 2011-9-13 12:23
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