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The Captain's Doll is a short story or novella by the English author D.H. Lawrence. It was written in 1921 and first published by Martin Secker in March 1923 in a volume withThe Ladybird … More...

The Captain's Doll is a short story or novella by the English author D.H. Lawrence. It was written in 1921 and first published by Martin Secker in March 1923 in a volume withThe Ladybird and The Fox. It was the basis of the 1983 TV film of the same name with Jeremy Irons as the Captain. The story chronicles the journey of fallen German aristocrat Countess Johanna 'Hannele' zu Rassentlow as she dates a Scottish officer of unusual philosophy. The relationship develops into one of D.H. Lawrence's The Captain's Doll is a short story or novella by the English author D.H. Lawrence. It was written in 1921 and first published by Martin Secker in March 1923 in a volume withThe Ladybird and The Fox. It was the basis of the 1983 TV film of the same name with Jeremy Irons as the Captain. The story chronicles the journey of fallen German aristocrat Countess Johanna 'Hannele' zu Rassentlow as she dates a Scottish officer of unusual philosophy. The relationship develops into one of D.H. Lawrence's idiosyncratic 'wicked triangles'. The intimate relationship between Captain Alexander Hepburn and Hannele is intruded upon when the captain's wife Evangeline travels to Germany suspicious of foul play. The plot unfolds with two parallel narratives; one in the symbolic domain, the other a traditional short story narrative about these protagonists. The concurrent symbolic tale that unfolds centers around the central image of The Captain's Doll-after which the story gains its title. This doll is a striking portrait of the Captain, with his "slender legs" and mesmerizing dark stare encapsulated in the silks and calico of a lifeless, inanimate object. This doll is an ongoing motif throughout the story as it acts as a metaphor for the dehumanizing effects of war on Hepburn - an English gentleman who had been part of the war machine and in the aftermath has come to believe that "we are worth so very little". Another profound metaphor and image employed by Lawrence is the great 'glacier' described from afar to be "cold, angry" and a reflection of the captain's deep seated desire to subjugate Hannele and arguably conquer her "physically, sexually and from the inside" as she muses in free indirect speech narration. The couple ascend the mountain together, and the sheer enormity of this natural wonder prompts discussion of the smallness of a human being in comparison, bringing the captain to make megalomaniacal claims that he is indeed bigger than the mountain. He projects this onto th Classics, Fiction & Literature, The Captain's Doll~~ D.H. Lawrence~~Classics~~Fiction & Literature~~1230000367011, en, The Captain's Doll, D.H. Lawrence, 1230000367011, Studium Legis, 04/17/2015, , , , Studium Legis, 04/17/2015<

2004, ISBN: 1230000367011

The Captain's Doll is a short story or novella by the English author D.H. Lawrence. It was written in 1921 and first published by Martin Secker in March 1923 in a volume withThe Ladybird … More...

The Captain's Doll is a short story or novella by the English author D.H. Lawrence. It was written in 1921 and first published by Martin Secker in March 1923 in a volume withThe Ladybird and The Fox. It was the basis of the 1983 TV film of the sa Classics, Fiction & Literature, The Captain's Doll~~ D.H. Lawrence~~Classics~~Fiction & Literature~~1230000367011, en, The Captain's Doll, D.H. Lawrence, 1230000367011, Studium Legis, 04/17/2015, , , , Studium Legis, 04/17/2015<