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The Rainbow

D. H. Lawrence

 I. Write out from the book words and word-combinations characterizing the main personages of the novel.

 Tom Brangwen

A thick-limbed, stiff, fair man

With fresh complexion, and blue, warm-twinkling  eyes

Good-looking, with fair, fine-curled  hair and eyes full of energy and light

With healthy body

Sensitive to the atmosphere around him

Having a low opinion of himself

Humble

Sensuously developed

Refined in instinct

Hopeless duffer at learning

A person, generous and honest by nature

Fresh and naive

Alert

With zest for every moment of life

Warm-hearted

There was the innate delicacy in him

Temperate by nature

Sensitive

Emotional

Uncouth

(for Lydia Lensky he seemed to be) difficult to understand, confident, sure on his feet as if he did not know what it was to be unsure

Strangely confident and direct

He remained wrathful and distinct from her

He felt a stupendous power in himself, of life, and of urgent, strong blood

(towards Anna) his face was smooth and soft-skinned with love, his eyes full of soft light

Good-humoured but impatient, was an easy blusterer

Conscious of his own misery

He was a strain on his wife

He felt himself a clod-hopper and a boor, dull, stuck in the mud

Lydia Lensky

Small and slight

With a pale and clear face

With thick dark eyebrows and a wide mouth, curiously held

She had wide grey-brown eyes with very dark, fathomless pupils

Her thick dark brows almost met above her irregular nose

She had a wide, rather thick mouth, which was even ugly-beautiful

Her arms were slim and she had a slim body

She had a dark, shapely head with close-banded hair

She was a foreign woman with a foreign air about her

Her manner of speaking was distinct and detached

Her self-possession pleased everybody

Well-born

Her manner was gracious and fascinating

She spoke softly and richly in the foreign accent

She was small and girlish and terrible, with a queer, wide look in her eyes

Very often she seemed to be back again in the past, chiefly in her childhood or her girlhood, with her father

Sometimes she was back at her own home

(according to Tom) cold, selfish, caring only about herself, a foreigner with a bad nature, caring really about nothing, having no proper feelings at the bottom of her, and no proper niceness

Quiet and polite

Silent

She was in her own world, quiet, secure, unnoticed, unnoticing

She was serene, a little  bit shadowy, as if she were transplanted

She was silent and seemed ominous

Anna Lensky

Being a child, she had a face like a bud of apple-blossom, glistening fair hair and very dark eyes

She had an odd little defiant look

She seemed to be jealously guarding something, to be always on the alert for defence

Her tiny fingers were fine and quick

When a child:

Reserved

She might seem friendly

(towards Tom Brangwen) she remained neutral still

Curiously, incomprehensibly jealous of her mother, always anxiously concerned about her

As a rule, Anna seemed cold, resenting her mother, critical of her

Was a sore problem to Brangwen and to all the people at the Marsh

She was active

Never seemed happy, but quick, sharp, absorbed, full of imagination and changeability

Difficult of her affections

Was curiously hard, and passionately tender-hearted

She was hard and imperious with the animals, squandering no love

She became an independent, forgetful little soul, loving from her own center

She didn’t care much for other children, she domineered them

When a young girl:

Shy and wild

She had a curious contempt for ordinary people, a benevolent superiority

She was very shy, and tortured with misery when people didn’t like her

She was free of other people

She deeply hated ugliness or intrusion or arrogance

As a child, she was as proud and shadowy as a tiger, and as aloof

She had plenty of acquaintances, but no friends

She was intelligent enough, but not interested in learning

She mistrusted herself, she mistrusted the outer world

She was only easy at home

She never was quite sure, in herself, whether she were wrong, or whether the others were wrong

She was very sensitive to her father

She was touchy, full of spirits, and very moody: quick to flush, and always uneasy, uncertain

In Will she had escaped

She became invisible to her parents

She seemed fulfilled and separate and sufficient in her half of the world

In her womanhood

Thin but full of colour and life

Indifferent, confident

William Brangwen

He had town clothes

He was  thin, with a very curious head, black as jet, with hair like sleek, thin fur

A rather long, thin youth with a bright face and a curious self-possession among his shyness, a native unawareness of what other people might be, since he was himself

His voice had rather high upper notes, and very resonant middle notes

He had some uncouthness, some natural self-possession of the Brangwens, that made him at home there

He had light-brown eyes

There was something of the cavalier about him

He was interested in churches, in church architecture

He enjoyed his unknown life and his own self

His sentences were clumsy, he was only half articulate

He had the wonderful voice, that could ring its vibration through the girl’s soul, transport her into his feeling

His face became more intense

Sometimes his voice was hot and declamatory, sometimes it had a strange, twanging, almost catlike sound, sometimes it hesitated, puzzled, sometimes there was the break of a little laugh

His nature was fierce enough, but too much abstracted, like a separate thing, like a cat’s nature

His favourite work was wood-carving

He was inarticulate and rather stupid in thought

In his sole he was desolate as a child, he was so helpless

He was greatly devoted to church

Dependent on his wife

Patient, energetic, inventive for his Ursula

He was all-powerful, the tower of strength which rose out of Ursula’s sight(towards his daughter)

His face became ruddy and dark in its abstraction

He had the quality of a young black cat

He was the “shadow”

Ursula (when a child)

She had golden-brown, wondering vivid eyes

She was the child of her Father’s heart

Absorbed, busy child, always amusing herself

Thoughtless

She was the one for realities

She had a great tenderness for her co-mate sister Gudrun

In her girlhood

Attentive and keen abroad, but reluctant, uneasy, unwilling to be herself at home

She was more and more against her mother’s practical indifference

She lived a dual life

As she passed from girlhood towards womanhood

Became self-responsible

Aware of herself

Slim, smouldering girl

Thought she loved everybody and believed in everybody

Self-conscious, always falling into depths of admiration of somebody else

Anton Skrebensky

Young man with very clear grayish eyes

He had a slender figure and soft brown hair

Interesting person

Direct, independent

His face was irregular, almost ugly, flattish, with a rather thick nose

His skin was fine, his figure slight, beautiful

To Ursula he was perfect

He was so spontaneous and revealed in his movements

He was isolated within his own clear, fine atmosphere

He was elegant

Always well-dressed

A little bit strange

Belonged to his own world

II. Characterise one of the main personages

Ursula Brangwen, one of the main characters of the novel, is the eldest daughter of Will and Anna Brangwen. In fact, it’s rather difficult to define her character, her personality. She is an independent young woman who defies the traditions of her time by choosing to become a schoolteacher, rather than a housewife. Ursula is a lost soul, a free spirit wandering around trying to find a meaning in life. She is essentially a risk taker and a loner, always rejecting the secure, ordinary world for the more exciting, mystical unknown. She wants to get out into the world and do things, see things, be things. She is a determined woman and attacks everything with fervour, especially in striving to be totally free from the everyday aspects of this world. Ursula is hunting for her own identity and her own beliefs but she is also her own enemy, “and she was the quarry, and she was also the hound”. Ursula has a sensitive idealistic nature and is always searching for perfection in herself and in others. Her one true aspiration is to actualize her true self. She is portrayed as a sleeping beauty waiting for her prince, a vision which leaves one doubtful of her own finding fulfillment in realistic terms. She is in love with the idea of romance and plays the game for her own amusement. She fought for her own existence, her true self and faced reality. We understand her happiness when she has found her place only to discover that she is no longer that person and must continue searching. She searches and searches for her own identity and her own love. Ursula reminds me of a need to understand the constant discovery of ourselves and the world around us. Lawrence didn’t give the readers a happy ending with Ursula’s character because with personality so profound and complex there could be no easy solution to her fulfillment in life.

III. Analyze one of the conflicts of the novel.

I’d like to revise a kind of interpersonal conflict by the example of the relationship between Ursula and Anton.

To find out what aspects, both positive and negative, are conveyed in the relationship between Ursula and Anton one must first look at them individually. This will show exactly the kind of “chemistry” produced when they are united as one. The main fault with these two characters is that they could not be reconciled with one another; their characters are so different, “Each was separate…they did not merge”.

Ursula is a lost soul, a free spirit wandering around trying to find a meaning in life. She is a determined woman and attacks everything with fervour, especially in striving to be totally free from the everyday aspects of this world. Ursula is hunting for her own identity.

Anton is also a wanderer but not in same way as Ursula. He has no real connection in society, no roots, and only travels in socially accepted patterns; He accepts his role in society and never challenges the given order of things. He is not the type to question himself or his motives, therefore he is confident. As long as society accepts him he feels complete. He has no depth, ‘no soul’, a superficial man playing with the idea of love but never actually feeling the sensitivity and profoundness of it. ”They were playing with fire, not with love… She loved him….the body of him…though her heart and soul must be imprisoned and silenced”. She could not resist his body. She was like a flower always waiting for the bee, but this bee had a sting which stunned and deadened her soul. It imprisoned her and weighed her down. She could not be free of this weakening desire.
This vacuum within Ursula, this nullity she felt for Anton was evident to him. He felt left out when he was with her as if he was actually alone and only when she decided to melt the barrier between them could he share her company. Anton knew that she could not be ruled by him and so he yielded to her losing his own identity in the process.

Anton is an outlet for Ursula’s dreaming nature and in her blind passion for him she does not see how this passion will eventually stultify and torment her. Her love for nature and the more passionate things in life will in the end become like a prison for her, ‘her sexual life flamed into a kind of disease within her’. Instead of merging, these two opposites begin to repel each other. The hopelessness of their relationship finally dawns on them and each deal with it in their own way. We learn from this relationship that physical passion is not enough, there must be love to help it grow into a fruitful and fulfilling union. Theirs’ was like a barren plant which struggled to stay alive but eventually without food to grow it withered and died.
Both Anton and Ursula wanted power over each other. Anton hoped that she would fail so that , ‘she would be more glad of him’, and Ursula constantly destroyed what he believed in. If they had truly loved one another they would have nurtured and encouraged each other. Their need to control each other just weakened it.

VI. Make up 6 sentences with the Oblique Moods on the basis of the book.

-         It’s surprising that Ursula Brangwen should have been so determined and sensitive at the same time.

-         If Tom Brangwen hadn’t gone out on that rainy day he wouldn’t have died.

 -         It’s surprising that Ursula should have been so in love with a woman

-         If Ursula hadn’t gone for a walk that very day the accident with the horses would never have happened.

-         If Ursula hadn’t been so persistent she would have never become a teacher.

-         If Ursula hadn’t been so independent and unapproachable, Anton would have never married another girl

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