A Comparative Study of Women Characters in The Select Novels Of D.H. Lawrence And T. Janakiraman

Name of Author : K. Vijayakumar

Abstract: D.H. Lawrence and T. Janakiraman in their novels portray the intricacies of the workings of the human mind, especially of women. They also stress the complexity of human nature - the dark underworld below the human consciousness which religion, civilization and morality may hide but cannot subdue or obliterate. This dark underworld is brought to the fore through the women characters – whether they are mothers, mistresses or wives, they exhibit their calculative, cunning, shrewd and destructive bent up of minds. The sons? individual, natural and passionate lives, the ardent lovers? dignity and the reputation of the family members of the husbands are spoilt or destroyed by their modern adamant attitudes. It is revealed that the women portrayed in these novels are no more traditional but modern in their „deliberate? attempts to achieve their own goals by exploiting the „select? men to the cor

Keywords : women characters, roles and responsibilities

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