Through literary expression in Women in Love, DH Lawrence successfully conveys personal beliefs on the themes of progressive sexuality, gender roles, instinctive actions, and the rot of society due to 'industrialization. Written in a post-war society, Women in Love, a sequel to Lawrence's previous work, The Rainbow, follows the lives of Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen and their search for true freedom (MacDonald). As Ursula and Gudriun's stories are told, various other main characters are introduced. Along with Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen, Rupert Birkin and Gerald Crich are both central characters in Women in Love. Containing countless subthemes, Women in Love contains a singular theme that all others can relate to: sexuality. Contrary to the use of subtleties, DH Lawrence opts for uninhibited writing in defining the sexuality of his characters. There are several methods by which Lawrence is able to craft a novel that exemplifies full disclosure of a subject generally considered not only private but indecent. These methods include the following: analysis of animals in their natural state, study of art, and graphic description of a variety of encounters. Sex, being considered an animalistic encounter by Lawrence, can be explored through studying the use of the following animals in the story: Gerald Crich's horse, Birkin's cat Mino, and Winifred's Bismarck rabbit. In the case of Gerald's horse, Gerald asserts his power over his horse to break the horse's immediate instinct to go into a frenzy of panic when it hears loud noises. While having dinner with Birkin, Ursula witnesses Birkin's cat, Mino, physically dominating a stray cat with whom Mino desires t... middle of paper... n love in the early 1900s, Lawrence actually parallels the changes real. in English society to the changes in the character of Ursula and Birkin. Between war, censorship and persecution, DH Lawrence channeled the resulting emotions into his writing and emerged a visionary author. Completely out of place for the century in which it was built and given to the population, Lawrence's Women in Love was met with criticism for its sexual implications. However, with proper deconstruction of the novel and psychoanalysis of the main characters, it is evident that Lawrence's genuine intention in his creation of Women in Love was to establish concepts of complex new philosophies regarding marriage rituals, definitions of love , the rapidly growing modernization. and the negative effects of excessive industrialization in the minds of its audience.