How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
Yet in some curious way it was a visionary experience: it had hit her in the middle of the body. She saw the clumsy breeches slipping down over the pure, delicate, white loins, the bones showing a little, and the sense of aloneness, of a creature purely alone, overwhelmed her. Perfect, white, solitary nudity of a creature that lives alone, and inwardly alone. And beyond that, a certain beauty of a pure creature. Not the stuff of beauty, not even the body of beauty, but a lambency, the warm, white flame of a single life, revealing itself in contours that one might touch: a body! (6.130)
Weirdly, what Connie likes about Mellors is that he's totally independent. Lady Chatterley's Lover is a little incoherent on the subject of isolation. Is it good to be independent? Or are we all supposed to have cuddle parties and flash mobs?
Quote #5
They were all inwardly hard and separate, and warmth to them was just bad taste. (7.17)
Here's a perfect example of how it's not clear what Lawrence wants us to do. Mellors is sexy because he's independent; but the upper classes are "hard and separate" in their independence. Make up your mind, D. H.
Quote #6
She listened to the tapping of the man's hammer; it was not so happy. He was oppressed. Here was a trespass on his privacy, and a dangerous one! A woman! He had reached the point where all he wanted on earth was to be alone. And yet he was powerless to preserve his privacy; he was a hired man, and these people were his masters. (8.36)
The problem with the world is that you can't really get off the grid. Even if you live in a hut in the woods, you have to get your food from somewhere. The nature of the modern world is to be connected—but, like Facebook, it may not be much of a connection.