28). Hermione was indeed the "social equal" - if not "far the superior" - of anyone she might meet. Still, with all that cultural and social buildup by Lawrence, Hermione's soul "was tortured" because she felt vulnerable...there was a secret chink in her armor" (p. 29).
And part of her torture was that she was obsessed with Rupert Birkin, whom she passionately longed for and hoped he would be at the wedding. They had been lovers for years so she knew what to expect from him and yet he tried to get away from her. So readers have this sense of a woman's strong social and sensual desire to lay eyes on a man, but wait, after Hermione became so obsessed with the hope that he would be at the wedding she even suffered a "little convulsion" and indeed her "slender body convulsed with agitation" (p. 31). And when she realized that Birkin wasn't in the church, "A terrible storm came over her, as if she were drowning. She was possessed by a devastating hopelessness" that was "beyond death, so utterly null, desert" (p. 31). One can imagine an intelligent person being disappointed, even emotionally drained, at the possibility that the one person she [Hermione] wanted desperately to see was not there. But "beyond death" is about as severe a description as possible, yet Lawrence pulls these off throughout the novel. The author is sadistic in this regard, but it is done for a purpose.
Indeed, Lawrence's book is overflowing with "physical and mental violence" and the characters exhibit "both masochistic and sadistic qualities" (Howe, 2002). The author in fact goes beyond creating characters that are extreme in their thoughts and actions, according to a scholarly article in Papers on Language & Literature ("Beastly Desire: Human/Animal...
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