Ursula in "Women in Love"

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This paper examines how Ursula is the one character in D.H. Lawrence's novel "Women in Love" that truly changes from how we see her at the beginning of the novel. By contrasting her statements at the beginning of the novel with the conversation that concludes the chapter "Continental," it shows how we can detect of number of these changes. It looks how Ursula becomes more impulsive and carefree and begins to demonstrate a belief, influenced most definitely by Birkin, that there is something more than just the mental and material aspects of human relationships. It evaluates how all of these changes in Ursula's character suggest a thematic core in Lawrence's novel that is centered around a physical/mental and spiritual/intellectual dichotomy.

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"Another aspect of Ursula's transformation is her new willingness except the existence of other worlds, both in a supernatural sense as well as a physical one. Earlier in the novel, in the chapter "A Chair" she tells Birkin, "But there's only this world"(406). However, in her conversation with Gudrun, Ursula insists that there are other worlds. Gudrun tells her, "But isn't it really a illusion to think you can get out of it. After all, a cottage in the Abruzzi, or wherever it may be, isn't a new world." Ursula responds by insisting that "there can be something else," one can see it through in ones soul, long enough before it sees itself through in actuality. And then, when one has seen ones soul, one is something else"(494). "

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