Commodification of Women in D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover

Abstract

Despite various issues related to human and social conditions, D. H. Lawrence'sLady Chatterley'sLoverfocuses on how women in modern and patriarchal society are under commodifiedfor the sake of amusement and personal purpose of the male dominated society. In the novel characters like Connie Raid and Bertha are the representative characters who are undergoing commodification. Young and beautiful woman suffer a lot under the capitalistic society. Bertha is commodified by the Oliver Mellors to fulfil his sexual hunger. In the same way Connie Raid is commoditized her husband Constance Chatterley inwardly. Women are commodified at the hands of male capitalists who exploits women not only physically. Therefore this research aims at how women are commodified in patriarchal soceity. It critiques the issue of commodification of women in D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover from the perspective of the Marxist feminist criticism.