Friday, July 14, 2017

Lady Chatterly Censored

Okay, so I guess I should give my artist statement on this one.  It has been awhile since I read Lady Chatterly's Lover.  This may sound like kind of a weird correlation, but I kind of relate it to the Jewish book The Thirteen Petall
ed Rose.  In particularly the section where the Rabbi explains why people should obey the Sabath and not work.  It is meant to be a reminder that humans are not machines.  It is meant to be a break from our daily routine to remind us that there is more to our identity than what we do for a living and the daily chores we perform.  I think Lady Chatterly's Lover also deals with some of this.  She finds herself stuck in this routine of a sexless marriage, and she is wasting away from it.  She is censored by the whiring cogs of moral protocals and the cultural routine.  She has to, as we all periodically should do, take a look at our life, and decide if we are really happy with the routines it can be so easy to get trapped in.

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