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Apocalypse is a chief motive in Lawrence’s imaginative thinking and notably in his so-called “Book of the Dead,” Women in Love. Lawrence firmly believed in the positive and creative result of destruction. It was only through destruction that new creativity could come into being, that rebirth and resurrection could occur. Indeed, destruction is a prerequisite for and prelude to creation and renewal. In an attempt to place Lawrence’s achievement in relation to the historical and intellectual context, I will try to show how Blake’s apocalyptic and prophetic vision prefigures Lawrence’s own and how Nietzsche’s ideas of will-to-power are revealed in Women in Love, last great representation of the moral tradition of the English novel. (Cheju National University)