The Absolute of Interconnectedness in “The Princess,” “Sun,” and Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Lawrence is an explorer of metaphysical paradoxes, existential possibilities and imaginative figurations. His dialectical thought process and imagination require him to endlessly question established truths and periodically adopt contradictory theses which may then be discarded or revised. For instance, how are we to reconcile Lawrence’s assertion in a 1923 letter to Murry that “One must be an absolute individual, separate as a seed fallen out of the pod” (L iv 500) and his later complaint to...