Breakdown of Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence

ONE Sentence summary:
Lady Chatterley, a woman from the upper class and married to a man who is numb from the waist down, has an affair with the Gamekeeper, a working class man.

TWO Things I would have done differently:
Keeping in mind the era this was written, I’m not sure what I would have done differently. Perhaps added more detail and add more flowery language?

THREE Titles that if you liked...you will like this:
Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.

FOUR Reasons to care:
1.) It was referenced that this was the most scandalous book of its time (published in 1928).
2.) Compare this with Fifty Shades of Grey, its interesting to see how far society has come with what is accepted in print.
3.) This was not required reading in high school and I understand why, now.
4.) The sexuality of women as written by a man is fascinating.

FIVE Facts about the author:
1.) Full name: David Herbert Richards Lawrence.
2.) His opinions earned him enemies, but he kept them anyway.
3.) He has a boarding school in the UK named after him.
4.) After the war he went into a period of voluntary exile.
5.) He also wrote poems, stories, novels, plays, essays and painted.

SIX Emotions I felt while reading:
Amused, bored, frustrated, interested, happy, sad.

SEVEN Thoughts:
1.) What makes sex ‘taboo?’
2.) If you are a bad communicator, are you bad at sex?
3.) Is it ever okay to say ‘yes’ to an affair?
4.) What effect does the class system have on love?
5.) Does sneaking around make for more or less intimacy?
6.) At what point is marriage no longer a “bond?”
7.) Which is more important: Wealth or happiness?

EIGHT Buzzwords:
class, love, passion, lust, society, sex, intimacy, money

NINE Plot device/writing techniques/tools/tricks:
1.) Multiple points of view (sometimes for only a paragraph at a time)
2.) Letters as a way to reveal information/plot
3.) descriptions
4.) Repetition with a sentence to create emphasis
5.) Inner dialogue as plot
6.) Secrets and intrigue
7.) Chekov Gun Rule (affair)
8.) location and scene
9.) dialect for emphasis

TEN Point plot summary:
1.) Lady Chatterley has an affair with a man she is not in love with since her husband is wheelchair bound and numb below the waist.
2.) Lady Chatterley breaks it off with this man and continues her boring life with a man who she is married to, but also not in love with.
3.) She spends her time walking through the woods and comes across the Gamekeeper’s cottage. She becomes taken with the serene quiet of the cottage. The Gamekeeper wants nothing to with her.
4.) She continues to visit the cottage on a regular basis and eventually starts an affair with the Gamekeeper.
5.) As their relationship blossoms and they become closer, it is revealed that the Gamekeeper is married but estranged from his wife. He expresses his concerns of the gap between their statuses him being a servent and her being a Lady.
6.) Lady Chatterley wants a child, and her husband expresses that he wouldn’t mind if she had a child by another man as long as it was discreet.
7.) She becomes pregnant by the Gamekeeper and conspires a plan to go away to Venice and claim a Venice man as the father of the baby.
8.) The Gamekeeper’s wife comes back and wreaks havoc when she finds evidence of their affair.
9.) Lady Chatterley writes to her husband to get a divorce, which he refuses to give her and fires the Gamekeeper.
10.) Lady Chatterley leaves her husband anyway, but the Gamekeeper and her can’t be together until both divorces are final, now that everyone knows about the affair.