Coming from humble, blue collar beginnings in a world overpowered by the advancement of technology, Lawrence had had an unmediated experience of the grinding life and atrocious circumstances that made it quite unfeasible for the common man to lead his life peacefully. Born as the son of a miner, in 1885, in the mining town of Nottinghamshire, Lawrence had seen life very closely. During his childhood days, D.H Lawrence had himself bore the brunt of industrialization. He focuses on the intricate link of psychology with class division and industrialization. But no one does it as beautifully as D.H Lawrence. Literary giants have voiced this phenomenon in their eminent pieces be it Charles Dickens, Bronte’ Sisters, Virginia Woolf or Eliot. Serving as a bane as well as a boon it not only provided nations with a much needed thrust to move on and progress in the vital spheres of life, contrarily it solidly demarcated the already stratified society. The watershed event of the nineteenth century, the Industrial revolution, not only transformed the lives of individuals in England but across the globe.
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