1. The Blind Man ~ by D. H. Lawrence

2.  Deconstruction Deconstruction  Basic Structure Basic Structure  Spatial Arrangements Spatial Arrangements  Relationships Relationships  Imageries Imageries  Binaries Binaries

3. Deconstruction  Structuralism — Binary  Phenomenology —  Semeiotics - - - - represent  Hermeneutics — language Infinite regress Arbitrariness - Communication - Thought - Le dis cours vs. le crture

4. Basic Structure - Isabel was listening to two sounds (Maurice & Bertie). - The interaction between Isabel and Maurice Maurice ’ s blindness has made Isabel suffer burden. Isabel needed a helper. - Isabel invited friends for g iving Maurice outer connection. - Isabel was pregnant. - Description of Bertie — a successful lawyer - Description of Maurice — a social exiled blinder - Maurice and Bertie did not like each other. - Maurice agreed Isabel to ask Bertie come. - Isabel was waiting for Bertie at home, but Maurice was outside and that made Isabel felt nervous. - Isabel was talking with Ms. Wernharn.

5. - Isabel went to the stable to find Maurice. - Maurice and Isabel ’ s conversation - Bertie was arrived. - The dinner - Maurice went out. - Bertie and Isabel ’ s conversation - Bertie went find Maurice. - Maurice and Bertie ’ s conversation - Maurice touched Bertie. - Bertie was forced to touched Maurice. - Maurice and Bertie came back home. - Maurice took Bertie as friend. - Isabel was watching the two men. Basic Structure (2)

6. Spatial Arrangements  Isabel was waiting at home.  Isabel and Maurice came back home.  Isabel and Maurice was waiting at home.  I, M, and B were having dinner at home.  Maurice came back home with Bertie.  I, M, and B was at home. OutsideInside Home  Maurice was outside.  Isabel went out to find Maurice.  Maurice went out.  Bertie went out to find Maurice.

7. Spatial Arrangements Home Outside farm Barn Isabel Maurice Bertie Isabel Maurice Bertie

8. Relationships Isabel Maurice Bertie The couple used to be happy. They’ve met a crisis. They are intimate. An affinity Over Help Fulfilled Beaten Over Blood consciousness over Intellect consciousness Isabel (a media, a glue, a bridge) Primitive Civilized In between Somehow civilized but also has the ability to get in touch with wild life, blood consciousness.

9. Imageries  Visual Images  Auditory Images  Olfactory Images  Tactile Images ☆ How do those images help convey the meanings of the story?

10. Visual Images - P.400, Para 2, serene picture of the couple’s life - P.402, 2 nd line, the outer feature of Maurice - P.403, last para, 3 rd line, image of Isabel, symbolic, coyness -P.406~407, Their contact in the dark P.406, last 4 th para, line 3, more clear image of Maurice strong, powerful, Blood P.407, last 2 nd para, line 3, Maurice’s living in the dark, like a normal person line 4, Flood in a sort of blood prescience line 9, “life seemed to move in him like a tide lapping, …possess it in pure contact.” - P.410, last 2 nd para, to p.411, 1 st para, image of Bertie -P.415, 5 th para, “Maurice stood with head lifted,……the new delicate fulfillment….elation about Maurice. Bertie was haggard, with sunken eyes.” - The last paragraph, Isabel was watching the two men. - P.403, last 3 rd para, last 2 nd para, Isabel’s stereotype of mother and wife - P.404, 3 rd para,line 7, image of farm people’s living, Wernham’s family.

11. Auditory Images - the 1 st line, Isabel was listening for two sounds—Maurice & Bertie. - P.405, 6 th para, Isabel’s voice soft and musical - P.405, 8 th para, Isabel listened the small sound from Maurice. “She listened intensely…she heard a small noise in the distance….a man’s voice speaking a brief word It would be Maurice.” - P.405, last 2 nd para, “She saw nothing, and the sound of his voice seemed to touch her.” - P.406, 5 th para, Maurice’s voice to Isabel. Pleasant & ordinary - P.408, 2 nd para, line 4, “ His hearing……like a bell ringing.”

12. Olfactory Images - P.405, 6 th para, line 3, Isabel smelled of wild life - P.406, last 3 rd para, line 4, Maurice smelled of his wife, Isabel. It changed his bearings - P.409, last 3 rd para, odors of violets, connections of their home town

13. Tactile Images - P.406, middle part, “give me your arm, dear,…pressed his arm to her,…she longed to see him…she could feel the strong contact his feet with the earth,…as if he rose out of the earth.” - P.407, middle part, last 4 th para, “touching her cheeks delicately….. the touch had and hypnotizing effect on her.” - P.414, middle part, last 9 th para, “Do you mind if I touch you?” It is the most significant part of this story. After the two men touched each other, Maurice believed they became good friends. - P.411, 1 st para, Bertie couldn't have physical contact. Physical weakness

14. Binaries Blood consciousness vs. Intellect consciousness Man & Woman ’ s relation vs. Man & Man ‘ s relation Wild life vs. Civil life Darkness vs. Lightness Touch  Tactile senses  Visual senses The Blind Man? Activity? Reject the surface meaning Challenge the original, authority concern  Difference (ontological difference) Dissemination of meaning  Text is open to readers Presupposition  assumption