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A Study of D. H. Lawrence’s Experimental Discourse in The Rainbow
Dr. Ala Eddin Sadeq
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8080/2016.11.008
Zarqa University, Zarqa, Jordan
David Herbert Lawrence (1885–1930) is a 20th century feminist writer who focuses on the central issue of discovering the true nature of male and female relationship. He believes that the health of a civilization and the harmony of this existence are all dependent upon the realization of a perfect human relationship. The foundation of this relationship is the relation between a man and a woman through a marriage or bond, which is free from the instincts of domination and traditional role playing. It must also ensure the partners’ acceptance of each other’s independent individuality and being. This search for the criterion of perfect relationship seems to be a dominating theme in almost all of Lawrence’s novels starting with The White Peacock (1911) and ending with Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928). The paper aims to show that The Rainbow (1915) is an experimental novel that highlights Lawrence’s search for a meaningful and complimentary relationship between a man and a woman. He undertakes the task of exploring the true foundation of this relationship through contrasting three different sets of marriages between the Brangwen men and women. From this perspective, the novel becomes a laboratory for investigating the norms of a perfect relationship between the couple. Lawrence transforms his novel into a laboratory of investigation, where he contrasts the varying relationships, viewpoints, and response of both his male and female characters for the sake of discovering a reliable base for a perfect relationship between the sexes. The paper proposes that The Rainbow establishes the stone base for comprehending Lawrence’s ideologies on this matter. Thus, it is virtually important to understand its experimental strategy prior to embarking on further investigation of the author’s varying treatment of the same issues in his other works.
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