History Literature / WomenInLove

* BloodBrothers: Rupert and Gerald. Lampshaded.

''Women in Love'' is a 1920 novel by [[Creator/DHLawrence D. H. Lawrence]].

[[TheFilmOfTheBook Adapted for the screen]] in 1969 by Creator/KenRussell, with Creator/AlanBates as Rupert, Creator/OliverReed as Gerald, Creator/GlendaJackson as Gudrun, and Jennie Linden as Ursula. The film received four UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nominations, with Jackson winning for Best Actress.

[[TheFilmOfTheBook Adapted for the screen]] in 1969 by Creator/KenRussell, with Creator/AlanBates as Rupert, Creator/OliverReed as Gerald, Glenda Jackson as Gudrun, and Jennie Linden as Ursula. The film received four UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nominations, with Jackson winning for Best Actress.

* EnvironmentalSymbolism: In the film, just after Gerald and Rupert have their wrestling match, the crackling flames in the background between them symbolize their passion for one another.

[[TheFilmOfTheBook Adapted for the screen]] in 1969 by Creator/KenRussell, with Alan Bates as Rupert, Creator/OliverReed as Gerald, Glenda Jackson as Gudrun, and Jennie Linden as Ursula. The film received four UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nominations, with Jackson winning for Best Actress.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The section with Gerald forcing his horse to endure a train riding past is written in a way that makes it sound like a rape scene, and it's very unsettling.

''Women in Love'' is a 1920 novel by D. H. Lawrence.

[[TheFilmOfTheBook Adapted for the screen]] in 1969 by Creator/KenRussell, with Alan Bates as Rupert, Oliver Reed as Gerald, Glenda Jackson as Gudrun, and Jennie Linden as Ursula. The film received four UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nominations, with Jackson winning for Best Actress.

[[TheFilmOfTheBook Adapted for the screen]] in 1969 by Creator/KenRussell, with Alan Bates as Rupert, Oliver Reed as Gerald, Glenda Jackson as Gudrun, and Jennie Linden as Ursula. The film received four AcademyAward nominations, with Jackson winning for Best Actress.

''Women in Love'' is a 1920 novel by D H Lawrence.

-> "To know is to human, and in death we do not know, we are not human. And the joy of this compensates for all the bitterness of knowledge and the sordidness of our humanity."

This novel provides examples of:

* DidTheyOrDidntThey: The 1969 film opens this possibility for the two men after their erotically portrayed nude wrestling match. So much so that the English censors had a hard time with it, and the film was banned altogether in Turkey.

It is a sequel to his novel ''The Rainbow'' (1915), and follows the continuing loves and lives of the sisters Gudrun and Ursula Brangwen. Gudrun Brangwen, an artist, pursues a destructive relationship with Gerald Crich, an industrialist. Lawrence contrasts this pair with the love that develops between Ursula and Rupert Birkin, an alienated intellectual who articulates many opinions that are associated with the author. The emotional relationships thus established are given further depth and tension by an intense psychological and physical attraction between Gerald and Rupert. The novel ranges over the whole of British society before the time of the FirstWorldWar and eventually ends high up in the snows of the Tyrolean Alps.

* CoupledCouples

** [[spoiler:Gerald crosses it at the end of the story.]]

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The section with Gerald Crich forcing his horse to endure a train riding past is written in a way that makes it sound like a rape scene, and it's very unsettling.

* IDontWantToRuinOurFriendship: Rupert worries about this.

** [[spoiler:Gerald begins strangling Gudrun, but stops of his own accord.]]

* LetsJustBeFriends: Rupert tries this with Hermione, and Gudrun with [[spoiler:Gerald]]. Neither is well received.

* ManlyTears: Both men have them in the 2011 miniseries; Gerald on the death of his father, and Rupert when he despairs of his faith in the world in general.
* TheMasochismTango: [[spoiler:Gudrun and Gerald.]]
* NotGoodWithRejection: Hermione.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Ursula delivers one to Rupert, enough to snap him out of it.

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Gerald invokes this after strangling Gudrun almost to death in a fit of anger. He wanders off into the snow to die.]]

* ShallowLoveInterest: Hermione.

* BetaCouple: The couples are foils for each other, with Rupert and Ursula ultimately learning to give themselves to each other, and Gerald and Gudrun having a harder time at it. In addition, each couple's central conflict approximates a gender-flipped version of the other's, with Rupert and Gudrun being the {{RebelliousSpirit}}s.

* BloodBrothers: Rupert and Gerald. In the 2011 series they almost do this literally, but are interrupted.

* DespairEventHorizon: Rupert comes close to this when he feels that both man and God have abandoned him. [[spoiler:Gerald crosses it at the end of the story.]]

* Foil: The stuffy and faux-spiritual Hermione to the worldly and open-hearted Ursula.

* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Gudrun = sanguine, Gerald = choleric, Rupert = melancholic, Ursula = phlegmatic.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Gudrun, in stark contrast to the withdrawn and somewhat antisocial Gerald.

''Women in Love'' is a 1920 novel by D H Lawrence.

* BetaCouple: The couples are foils for each other, with Rupert and Ursula ultimately learning to give themselves to each other, and Gerald and Gudrun having a harder time at it.

* DeadpanSnarker: Rupert, especially in the 1969 film.

* BestKnownForTheFanservice: The 1969 film is largely remembered for the sweaty naked wrestling scene with Alan Bates and Oliver Reed, and having one of the first depictions of male frontal nudity in a major studio film.

* Fanservice: The famous nude wrestling scene in the 1969 film.

* TheWoobie: Gerald grew up with his brother's death on his conscience, then his sister drowns, his father dies of an illness, and [[spoiler:his relationship with Gudrun shatters.]]