摘要

劳伦斯是二十世纪饱受争议的重要英国作家，他以对人性描写超凡的驾驭能力，揭示了资本主义工业文明压抑人性的本质。他相信单纯自然和谐的性生活和灵肉统一的两性关系是对现实的真实体现，同时也是解决非人性的工业社会的社会问题的关键。
在劳伦斯的短篇小说中，意象描写非常突出。意象本是诗歌中诗人表达内心情感的工具，但在后来的发展中，意象已不仅仅局限于诗歌体裁，在小说中也有大量的运用。在小说创作中，意象描写在帮助作者营造出富于张力的故事情节，表述和暗示人物心理变化过程，以及塑造人物性格方面发挥着重要的作用，
本论文主要通过《马贩子的女儿》、《第二好》、《菊馨》和《玫瑰花园中的阴影》这四部劳伦斯的短篇小说中蕴含的丰富的意象来分析其文章中不同女性对待婚姻爱情的态度，总结出劳伦斯短篇小说中女性的两种婚姻爱情模式——爱情的出现以及爱情在婚姻生活中的消褪，并且从作者的个人经历和社会背景等方面分析了劳伦斯短篇小说中的女性形成这两种婚姻爱情模式的社会成因，为更加深入理解劳伦斯的作品的社会意义提供了有益的思路。

关键词：劳伦斯；短篇小说；意象；女性婚姻爱情观

ABSTRACT

D. H. Lawrence was a very important and controversial English writer of the 20th century. His works embody his extraordinary ability to convey a sense of humanity, and reveal the suppression of human nature in industrialization. Lawrence believed that a pure, natural and harmonious sexual relationship and the integration of spirit and clay between man and woman is a key to undistorted perception of reality and a way to respond to the inhumanity of the industrial culture.
In D. H. Lawrence’s short stories, imagery is widely used. Imagery originates from poetries to express the emotion of poets. Later, it is also widely used in novels to construct the development of the stories. In novels and short stories, imagery can be used as an important tool to suggest the change of the inner-world and to form the characteristic of the characters.
This paper is conducted to analyze the females’ attitudes towards love and marriage through abundant images in short stories of D. H. Lawrence and comes to two patterns of females’ attitudes towards love and marriage — emergence of love and fading of love in marriage. Additionally, with further effort to analyze the possible reasons in respect of the formation of females’ attitudes towards love and marriage, this paper provides a new angle to study works of Lawrence.

Key words: Lawrence, short stories, imagery, females’ attitudes towards love and marriage

1  Introduction
D. H. Lawrence was a very talented and controversial English writer of the 20th century. His art is the product of prolonged and important meditations on psychology in relation to the moral needs of men of his age as he seeks to work male psychological laws into his fictions. In a lot of his literary work, his personal convictions can be interpreted as man's reaction to the development and changes of women in their social status and individualities.