How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
The industrial noises broke the solitude, the sharp lights, though unseen, mocked it. A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits. And now he had taken the woman, and brought on himself a new cycle of pain and doom. (10.109)
We keep going back to Facebook, but it really is the perfect example: the modern world is both isolating (we're all just disembodied brains pecking away at our computers, alone in our rooms) and constantly pushing you to connect (if you're not on Facebook, you're basically not part of society). Mellors has the same problem: he wants to be independent and alone, but people keep sending him friend requests.