ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The Rainbow is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence, first published by Methuen & Co. in 1915. It follows three generations of the Brangwen family living in Nottinghamshire, focusing particularly on the individual’s struggle to growth and fulfilment within the confining strictures of English social life.

Detailed explanation-2: -Themes. In Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Lawrence comes full circle to argue once again for individual regeneration, which can be found only through the relationship between man and woman (and, he sometimes asserts, man and man). Love and personal relationships are the threads that bind this novel together.

Detailed explanation-3: -Constance enters into a passionate love affair with her husband’s educated gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. Pregnant by him, she leaves her husband and the novel ends with Mellors and Constance temporarily separated in the hope of securing divorces in order to begin a new life together.

Detailed explanation-4: -By depicting the rainbow Lawrence seems to present it as a symbol of life, continuity, hope and happiness. Ursula represents the whole humanity to renounce the world of depression and disappointment. In the mystical insights of nature man feels the integrity and the he steadily realize the salvation.