

Lawrences attitude to sexual relationships between men and women has changed the face of the English novel. However, by the time of The Rainbow and Women in Love, we recognize that Lawrence is now his own man and woman discover not only each other but also themselves. Subject matter itself was anti-materialistic, increasingly outspoken in love and sex so he was prolific writer. An attempt has been made to ascertain how far Lawrence made use of his own life to form the material of his novels. He fashioned many characters in his novels after his own personality. All the same, to get his full effect he needed length and what should be stressed was the intense and complex reality of the world. Normally, his novels were probably very defective, which was why he was at his best artistically in his short stories. His characters are not always easy to explain.

Lawrence regarded the relationship between a man and a woman as a form of conflict, not a natural expression of harmony. Lawrences personality was, is it were a crystal of many facts? His collected works represent and extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization. Lawrence explored the destructive features of contemporary civilization through the evolving relationships of four major characters as they reflect upon the value of the arts, politics, economics, sexual experience, friendship and marriage.ĭ. Thus, in Women in Love sexuality, marriage, family, friendship, and also work, education, art and even out relation with animals, all come under the closest of scrutiny, constituting as they do the cherished values of civilization which had thrown itself into mechanized carnage. Even in sexual relationship, in the most private and intimate domain of the personal historical changes make their mark. Lawrence understood that history is not simply a matter of abstract movements, wars, revolutions, monarchies and governments, but that it is made the registered in the practices of everyday personal life. Ganga Institute of Technology and ManagementĪbstract: Normally, his novels were probably very defective, which was why he was at his best artistically in his short stories.

Lawrence’s ‘The Rainbow’ġ,2 Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Science,
