“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

” D H Lawrence’s
opening line in Lady Chatterly’s Lover does not let you move ahead without pausing and
only when you engage with it that you understand its beauty and profoundness. Lawrence
wrote it in times of war and industrialisation. Thinking over it one wonders whether
Lawrence was writing just for those times or alluding to all the ages. Since tragedy is not
peculiar to a single age, it is obvious why Lawrence wrote what he wrote.