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In The Plumed Serpent Lawrence shows various attitudes toward the indigenous people in Mexico through which we can see how his racism works. Vaguely thinking them ignorant and violent, Kate's first response to the people is fear and arrogance of the privileged Whites. This preconception is gradually changed into approval of their own raisons d'etre. Living with Indians, Juana's family, she begins to understand much of their way of living and shed her previous concept of the third world people. But the perception of her racial bias is not complete and she reveals her racism sometimes. Ramon's Quetzalcoatl movement is Lawrence's another searching for what would be complement to the Western civilization. But the seeking the blood consciousness in the dark people seems to fail. Detailed daily life of the Indians converted from Christianity to Quetzalcoatl is rarely given and only in a mass is shown the emotional effect of the new religion. Though Ramon appears another European conqueror, the nationalistic vein in the movement suggests Lawrence's strong opposition to colonialism. The resurrecting the Mexican old god is one of the methods of protecting the oppressed people in the ex-colonialized world. Through this imaginative novel Lawrence succeeded in criticizing and resisting to racism to a certain degree.
