Themes of Class and Relationships in Lady Chatterley's Lover

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In this chapter, the hosts discuss the themes of class and relationships in Lady Chatterley's Lover. They highlight how the class distinction is used as a complex metaphor and explore the character of Connie who has had an affair with an Irish playwright. They also analyze the character of Mellors, who is presented as a different choice for Connie compared to her husband Clifford and Mellors' wife.

Banned in many countries until the 1960s, David Herbert Lawrence's 1928 novel is both racier and tamer than you might imagine. What more would you expect from a book that uses both "the love experience" and [BLEEP] to describe, well, adult behavior? Caveat lictor: this episode features discussions of Adult Situations.

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