Many critics have discussed the significance of the sun and its worship in D. H. Lawrence’s writing, which is very relevant to his theories of blood consciousness and mental consciousness and also his concept of dark love. Grahan Hough entitled his own study of Lawrence’s works The Dark Sun. For Professor Jack Stewart in The Vital Art of D. H. Lawrence, Lawrence’s sun-worship was related to primitive animism. However, a very significant aspect has been overlooked, which is the hereditary nature of this worship of the sun, termed by Lawrence as Aristocracy of the Sun. This essay aims to explore Lawrence’s presentation of sun-aristocrats in his novella The Ladybird (1923). The scientific concept of heredity, manifested particularly in physiognomy, is repeatedly emphasized to delineate the lineage of both Lady Daphne Beveridge and Count Johann Dionys Psanek. To illustrate ancestral traits, I have related Lawrence’s employment of the heraldic symbol of the Mary-beetle to his interest in Egyptology. Count Dionys claims pharaonic roots through this crest, which has a long genealogy. Whether it is the reckless blood of daredevils or that of the ancient Pharoahs, literary genetics is conspicuous in The Ladybird.
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abstract = {Many critics have discussed the significance of the sun and its worship in D. H. Lawrence’s writing, which is very relevant to his theories of blood consciousness and mental consciousness and also his concept of dark love. Grahan Hough entitled his own study of Lawrence’s works The Dark Sun. For Professor Jack Stewart in The Vital Art of D. H. Lawrence, Lawrence’s sun-worship was related to primitive animism. However, a very significant aspect has been overlooked, which is the hereditary nature of this worship of the sun, termed by Lawrence as Aristocracy of the Sun. This essay aims to explore Lawrence’s presentation of sun-aristocrats in his novella The Ladybird (1923). The scientific concept of heredity, manifested particularly in physiognomy, is repeatedly emphasized to delineate the lineage of both Lady Daphne Beveridge and Count Johann Dionys Psanek. To illustrate ancestral traits, I have related Lawrence’s employment of the heraldic symbol of the Mary-beetle to his interest in Egyptology. Count Dionys claims pharaonic roots through this crest, which has a long genealogy. Whether it is the reckless blood of daredevils or that of the ancient Pharoahs, literary genetics is conspicuous in The Ladybird.},
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