It  is important to say firstly that he was obsessively interested in the problems of the social and political reality of his time, as it can be seen in his novels.

These restlessness always had a direct relation with the questions referring to the individual behaviour and to the sexuality in the modern society. Lawrence grew in the late years of the 19th century, a period of economic splendour for England. The industrialisation had brought, in general, an improvement of the life level and a major social mobility, and, on the other hand, it had caused, since the end of the 18th century, the decadence of the old landowner aristocracy. The monopoly of the richness had been yet broken in the early 19th by the competence between anonymous societies, and the upper class had to ally with the industrial bourgeoisie.

In the 20’s in England, which was portrayed in Lady Chatterley’s Lover by Lawrence, the idea of a landowner aristocracy seemed a ridiculous anachronism. Then, the Midlands, which Lawrence visited before writing his last great novel, as it will be seen later, showed a depressing contrast. Finding the joviality and the spontaneity which had fascinated him was impossible. It was a violent and torn society, whose tensions could have been able to guide to the revolution or to fascism. The writer accused the mechanisation and the industrialisation of this social tear. His inclination to formulate archetypes took him to express a radical opposition between the "natural" of the 19th century and the "mechanic" of the 20th century.

The miners of the late decades of the 19th century did not enjoy an intimate contact with the nature, neither lived they an harmonious relation with their semi-feudal gentleman. The relative fragment of the mining society Lawrence found in the 20’s was due to social and economic changes and not to a technological evolution.

His father had enjoyed some political knowledge, but this privileging situation did not last. The British economy had processes of crisis which carried bitter conflicts. Moreover, the expenses of the First War World ruined the arks of the empire. Certainly, the safe and calm days of the Victorian times had disappeared. And, of course, all this situation influenced in his literary production.

Customs had changed as well. The starchy 20th-century Puritanism gave a "vulgar" culture for Lawrence due to the advance of the consumerism and to the mass culture. The behaviour of the British society in the First War World and their union to the warlike governments deeply disappointed him. Later, his disappointment grew when he saw the bad situation of the Midlands in 1926, what reaffirmed his opinion about the bad effects of the industrialism: his vision of the life in the modern life, where the being must execute useless and unpleasant functions, moving thus away from their nature and their instinct.