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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelIn this thesis, I am interested to know why Constance Reid feels unhappy
with her marriage and what the effects of the unhappy marriage on her life are.
The purpose of the study is to analyze the main causes of Constance?s unhappy
marriage and its effects to her. I want to show and prove that the unhappy
marriage finally affect Constance mentally and physically as seen in D. H.
Lawrence?s Lady Chatterley?s Lover. In analyzing the matter, I use the literary
approach namely theory of characterization and theory of conflicts, supported by
the concept of marital life, and psychological concepts namely the concept of
daydreaming and the concept of depression. In the analysis, I discuss some
causes of the unhappy marriage such as Clifford?s impotency, Constance?s
communication problem with Clifford, and Constance?s lack of intimacy and
affection. Then, in the end Constance?s unhappy marriage affects her
psychologically for she experiences a state of daydreaming and she suffers from
an acute depression, also, in the end she has an affair with her secret lover,
Oliver Mellors. Finally, I come up with the conclusion that Constance cannot
cope with her husband?s physical and emotional paralysis, because as a young
normal married woman she finds that she must fulfill her own needs at a very
basic level, and when that needs are not fulfilled, it affects her psychologically
and in the end she has an affair with another man. She cannot reach a happy
marriage because her defective relationship with her husband can no longer be
reconciled.