The Research Topic The Research Problem The Research Question The Goals of the Study
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The Virgin and the Gipsy is interesting to investigate because D.H. Lawrence uses female character as the subject that represented post-Victorian
morality in the novella. The representation is symbolized as the resistance against Victorian morality. In fact, women in the Victorian period were considered as
subordinate. In other words, they were in lower position than men. In addition, based on the year of the writing process of the novella, it is evidence that during
the Victorian period all forms of writing or pictures that involved discourse of sexuality and everything related to sexual aspects were strictly prohibited.
Therefore, a literary work such as The Virgin and the Gipsy is written and also published when the Victorian period was ended.
In the Victorian period, crossing of class barriers was forbidden. Through The Virgin and the Gipsy D.H. Lawrence admits the cross of class barriers, to
have a relationship with a man of an inferior class that is between Yvette and the Gypsy whom she met in her journey. In this period marriage was often based on
material reason. For instance, lower classes always hoped to marry other classes above theirs while upper classes were often married to the same classes. Just as
Queen Victoria who married to his own cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha in 1840.
The representation of Victorian morality and post-Victorian morality in England issues in D.H. Lawrence’s The Virgin and the Gipsy is the subject matter
that will be analyzed in this research. Therefore, this research uses Stuart Hall’s theory of representation that is taken from his book entitled: “Representation:
Cultural Representation and Signifying Practice”. Thus, this reason encourages me to do the research which results a thesis entitled
“The Death of Victorian Morality and the Emergence of Post-Victorian Female Subject in D.H.
Lawrence’s The Virgin and the Gipsy”.