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The Rainbow D.H. Lawrence (1915) - Coggle Diagram
The Rainbow
D.H. Lawrence
(1915)
At first, published as two separate works
The Sisters
(1913)
The Wedding Ring
(1914)
The Rainbow
(1915)
Seen as a
journey of the mind
and a
quest for self-understanding and development
Bildungsroman
A novel presenting the protagonist’s psychological or moral development/growth from childhood to adolescence.
Künstlerroman
Artist-novel
: A specific subgenre of the Bildungsroman, for it is a novel presenting an artist’s formation/becoming from childhood to adolescence and later maturity or from one stage in his life to the next, artistically superior
The novel
Themes
love (the love vs conflict of the man–woman relationship
fulfilment (through marriage, creation –creation of life vs artistic creation)
the repressed emotions and psychological complexities
the man–woman opposition/complementarity
aspirations/ideals
religion
traditionalism vs. modernization or loss of the traditional world, change
the search for self-understanding
Character Portrayal
the man
the woman
the lover
the artist
The use of time
the
three generations of family
run their destinies from the middle of the
19th century (1840)
to the beginning of the
20th century (1905)
in a reflection of society and the individual
Space as a background
The city offers characters
the novelty they search for
, a
coming out of the constraints
, organized codes of the rural space
Motifs
the rainbow
the circle, the wedding ring
the journey/the quest
the blood
the flood ( the ride, water)
the man-woman pair
the garden
the cathedral
the house (the door, the threshold, the bed)
the womb
number seven
the farm, the barn, the hayloft, the bridge
the wild horses, etc
Stylistic devices
the use of colours
imagery
the creation of rhythm (of narration through the various types of rhythm introduced in the novel)
the use of plurivocality/ poliphony of voices