Essay - Not Authentic Representations of Self Universal Theme of Transitional Literature...

Not Authentic Representations of Self universal theme ***** transitional literature is the sacrifice of self. Many characters, within some ***** ***** greatest works of ***** express longing as a main theme, as if they are living a life that is not quite what they had in mind. D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Beryl Bainbridge and Dor***** Lessing, all develop characters within their works that establish the idea of a denial of authenticity ***** self. The four ***** ***** the four characters which best describe this sort of sacrifice ***** self are: Lawrence's Paul Morel in Sons and Lovers, Woolf's Clarissa Dalloway in Mrs. *****, ********** Susan Rawlings in To Room Nineteen ***** Charlie from Bainbridge's Clap Hands, Here Comes *****.

***** from the start ***** Morel from Sons and Lovers w***** different. More delicate than o*****r children and the expression of grief through depression that brought on tears is a foreshado*****ing of h***** ***** to come.

*****n t*****e mother would find the boy of three or four crying on the sofa.

What's the matter?' she asked, and got no answer.

What's ***** matter?' ***** insisted,... 'I don't k*****w,' sobbed the child.

So she tried to reason him out of it, or to amuse *****, but without effect. It made her feel beside herself...These fits were not often, ***** ***** caused a sh*****dow in Mrs M*****el's heart, and her treatment of Paul was different from ***** of the o*****r *****.

Lawrence 58)

The longing that ***** showed for women and ***** love is a realization of the foreshadowing ***** his desire to live a life he w*****s not allowed to live. The world in***** which he was born was ***** lavish. ***** many children to feed on a m*****or's salary ***** there was little real ***** between his parents. ***** only descriptive tool he had was from ***** brother who engaged in a k*****d of play at real love. Speaking of William, Paul's brother, "All the life that Bestwood offered he enjoyed, from ***** sixpenny-hops down Church Street, to sports and billiards.

Paul was treated to dazzling descriptions of all kinds of flower-like ladies, most ***** *****m lived like cut blooms in *****'s heart for a brief fortnight.

Occasion*****y some flame would come in pursuit of her errant swa*****. Mrs Morel ***** find a strange girl at the door, and immediately ***** sniffed ***** air.

(Lawrence 63)

When Paul has a love, that is approved ***** *****, Miriam he feels compelled by ***** to leave her for a married woman, Clara. Clara represents ***** him the transition between the old Victorian ideal woman and the newer more modern woman, complete with imperfections ***** vices. He tells here of their first meeting,

She [Mariam] ***** walking with a rather striking woman, blonde, with a sullen expression, and a defiant carriage. It was strange how *****, in her bowed, meditative bearing, looked dwarfed beside ***** woman with the h*****some shoulders. Miriam watched Paul searchingly. H***** gaze was on the stranger, who ignored him. The