Animals, Humans and "The Horse Dealer's Daughter"

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The paper examines D.H. Lawrence's short story "The Horse Dealer's Daughter" and how animals and nature are used to communicate a deeper meaning in the story. The paper focuses on Lawrence's description of characters as animals where the author praises the animalistic while chiding the human, thus suggesting that human characteristics are foolish and fickle.

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"Though ecocriticism is a rather new theory of literary criticism, critics have quickly begun to apply the theory to the modernists' work From William Faulkner to Ernest Hemingway to John Steinbeck, twentieth century writers have used nature to make comparisons with humanity and human life. In some cases, like Steinbeck's use of animals and water throughout East of Eden and The Winter of Our Discontent, the natural references serve as symbols. In other works, like Faulkner's As I Lay Dying and Light in August, the nature references cause the reader to compare and contrast an animal existence with a human existence. In much the same way, D.H. Lawrence uses nature throughout his works in order to make a commentary about human life. That the rather controversial author used such literary technique is not hard to imagine, given that the he was enormously concerned with matters of the human psyche, especially instinct, emotion, and human sexuality."

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