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- 2. WELCOME TO MY PPBR By Lourd Vincent Van N. Mendoza
- 3. CONTENTS Book Cover + General Info Author’s Profile w/ Themes & Motifs Main Characters Detailed Summary Favourite Part of the Book Book Back
- 5. GENERAL INFO The Rainbow, published first in 1915, is the complete and exquisitely organized form of D.H. Lawrence's views about familial relationships. The novel relates the story of three generations of an English family -- the Brangwens. As the main characters move in and out of the story's framework, readers are brought face-toface before an intriguing theory of passion and power among the familiar social roles of husbands, wives, children, and parents… Source: About.com/'The Rainbow' Review.htm
- 6. The Author: D.H. Lawrence “If there weren’t so many lies in the world… I wouldn’t write at all.”
- 7. MOTIFS AND THEMES Reviled as a crude and pornographic writer for much of the latter part of his life . . . Lawrence’ linguistic precision, mastery of a wide range of subject matters and genres, psychological complexity and exploration of female sexuality distinguish him as one of the most refined and revolutionary English writers of the early 20thy century.
- 8. QUOTABLE QUOTE: “Men will easily have a passion for you, but they won't love you. Passion is only part of love. And it seems so much because it can't last. That is why passion is never happy.” — Maggie (Ursula’s friend)
- 10. Tom Brangwen The first central character, Tom Brangwen, is a labourer whose experience of the world does not stretch beyond Nottinghamshire…
- 11. Lydia Lensky A Polish Polish widow, Lydia Lensky, becomes the housekeeper of the vicar of the local church. She brings her small daughter, Anna, with her. One evening a few months later, Tom finds the courage to present the widow with a bouquet of daffodils in the vicar’s kitchen and to ask her to be his wife (and yes, they get married).
- 12. Wil Brangwen He is considered as Anna’s cousin (although not by blood). He has had an affair with Anna before they get married with each other.
- 13. Anna Theresa Lensky-Brangwen Anna is envious of her husband, Will's devout faith so she makes a religion of giving birth, bearing a child every other year – nine or ten in total. She seeks immortality through future generations, and she slyly lures Will from his reverence of organized religion to a dark, passionate, erotic lifestyle.
- 14. Anton Skrebensky Anton Skrebensky, a British soldier of Polish ancestry, has had a lot of affairs with Ursula, but he only wants to gratify his passion.
- 15. Ursula Brangwen Ursula, Tom’s granddaughter, studies at University and becomes a teacher in the progressively urbanised, capitalist and industrial world that would become our modern experience.
- 16. DETAILED SUMMARY The Rainbow chronicles three generations of Brangwens living near Marsh Farm. Sexually stormy marriages set the stage for conflict and power struggles within the home. Tradition, passion, children, and compromise define the Brangwen clan, giving its members both happiness and sadness.
- 17. The Brangwen family has lived at Marsh Farm for many generations. The family has a long established connection with the earth. When Tom Brangwen inherits the farm, he wants to add excitement to his life by marrying Lydia, a recent widow, and a Polish exile. Lydia has a daughter, Anna, from her previous marriage. Tom and Lydia's marriage is distant and silent. They do not understand each other, but have a strong sexual connection. During Lydia's pregnancy with Tom's children, Tom and Anna bond. Tom and Anna remain extremely close throughout her childhood. When Anna grows up, Tom has a difficult time dealing with Anna's marriage to his nephew, Will. Tom objects to Will and Anna's marriage at first, but eventually agrees to help them out.
- 18. Anna and Will set up their own home in a nearby cottage. They enjoy the first weeks of their marriage but quickly return to normal routines. Their marriage is full of passion, but is often sidetracked by many pregnancies. Anna is obsessed with fertility and Will withdraws into his handicraft hobbies. The only thing that bonds them to each other is sex. They battle each other for dominance in their stormy marriage, although neither one thinks that they are capable of understanding each other on anything other than a sexual level.
- 19. Will and Anna have eight children, the oldest of which is Ursula. Ursula dislikes having to take care of her younger brothers and sisters and longs for a more meaningful life. During her schooldays, she dreams of the life of the upper classes and explores her religious faith. She is often conflicted about the role of Christianity in everyday life. She falls in love with Anton Skrebensky, the son of an old family friend. When he goes to fight in South Africa, they are unsure how their relationship will progress.
- 20. Ursula finishes school after forming a relationship with one of her female teachers, Miss Inger. She is confused by Miss Inger's sexual advances, but eventually introduces her to her homosexual uncle. Miss Inger and the uncle marry to cover their homosexual activities. Ursula accepts a teaching position in a poor neighbourhood, but continues to live at home.
- 21. Ursula dislikes teaching, and particularly dislikes the corporal punishment she is forced to inflict on her students. After teaching for two years, she goes to college to get her degree. She enjoys the first year of college, especially Botany. Meanwhile, her father has been promoted as an Arts and Handicrafts Instructor for the county. The whole family moves to a bigger house in a fancier neighborhood. They enjoy their new social position.
- 22. During her last year of college, Ursula reconnects with Anton Skrebensky. During his six-month leave from the army, he and Ursula begin an affair. Ursula loses interest in her classes and routinely leaves school to be with Anton. During the Easter holidays, the two of them go on holiday together, pretending to be married. Ursula fails her university exams and gets engaged to Anton. Ursula does not really want to marry Anton and calls off the engagement shortly before he leaves for India. After he leaves, Ursula realizes that she is pregnant. She tries to contact Anton, but he does not reply to her letters. She miscarries and loses her baby. She discovers a new independence and starts her life again.
- 23. Favourite Part of the Novel When Anna has finally accepted Tom as her new father – as she utters: “My name is Anna, Anna Lensky, and I live here, because Mr. Brangwen’s my father now. He is, yes, he is. And I live here.”
- 24. Book Back “Lawrence's prose is beautiful but sometimes annoying as he frequently repeats sentences two or three times, voices repetitive thoughts, lingers too long on morbid themes and fiendishly sees everything in a deep psychological intensity. Through several entire chapters I just wanted the book to be over, but when I finally read the last chapter, surprisingly, I wasn't quite ready for it to end. Lawrence's innovative approach to taboo topics of the early 1900s and his provocative language earned him a permanent high ranking in the world of American literature.” — Lois Weisberg, Yahoo Contributor Network
- 25. I give four (4) stars for this novel.
- 27. Prepared by: Lord Vincent Van N. Mendoza BSEd 3 – English
Editor's Notes
- Quick FactsNAME: D.H. Lawrence OCCUPATION: Journalist, Author, Playwright, PoetBIRTH DATE: September 11, 1885DEATH DATE: March 02, 1930 EDUCATION: Nottingham High School, University College of Nottingham PLACE OF BIRTH: Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom PLACE OF DEATH: Vence, France Full Name: David Herbert Lawrence AKA: David H. Lawrence AKA: D.H. Lawrence AKA: David Lawrence
- Tom was a rather short,good-looking youth, with crisp black hair and long black eyelashes and soft, dark, possessed eyes. He had aquick intelligence. From the High School he went to London to study. He had an instinct for attracting peopleof character and energy. He gave place entirely to the other person, and at the same time kept himselfindependent. He scarcely existed except through other people. When he was alone he was unresolved. Whenhe was with another man, he seemed to add himself to the other, make the other bigger than life size. So that afew people loved him and attained a sort of fulfilment in him. He carefully chose these few.He had a subtle, quick, critical intelligence, a mind that was like a scale or balance. There was something of awoman in all this.In London he had been the favourite pupil of an engineer, a clever man, who became well-known at the timewhen Tom Brangwen had just finished his studies. Through this master the youth kept acquaintance withvarious individual, outstanding characters. He never asserted himself. He seemed to be there to estimate andestablish the rest. He was like a presence that makes us aware of our own being. So that he was while stillyoung connected with some of the most energetic scientific and mathematical people in London. They tookhim as an equal. Quiet and perceptive and impersonal as he was, he kept his place and learned how to valueothers in just degree. He was there like a judgment. Besides, he was very good-looking, of medium stature,but beautifully proportioned, dark, with fine colouring, always perfectly healthy.His father allowed him a liberal pocket-money, besides which he had a sort of post as assistant to his chief.Then from time to time the young man appeared at the Marsh, curiously attractive, well-dressed, reserved,having by nature a subtle, refined manner. And he set the change in the farm.
- When Anna was nine years old, Brangwen sent her to the dames' school in Cossethay.The girl was at once shy and wild. She had a curious contempt for ordinary people, a benevolent superiority.She was very shy, and tortured with misery when people did not like her. On the other hand, she cared verylittle for anybody save her mother, whom she still rather resentfully worshipped, and her father, whom sheloved and patronised, but upon whom she depended. These two, her mother and father, held her still in fee.But she was free of other people, towards whom, on the whole, she took the benevolent attitude. She deeplyhated ugliness or intrusion or arrogance, however. As a child, she was as proud and shadowy as a tiger, and asaloof. She could confer favours, but, save from her mother and father, she could receive none. She hatedpeople who came too near to her. Like a wild thing, she wanted her distance. She mistrusted intimacy.In Cossethay and Ilkeston she was always an alien. She had plenty of acquaintances, but no friends. Very fewpeople whom she met were significant to her. They seemed part of a herd, undistinguished. She did not takepeople very seriously.She had tow brothers, Tom, dark-haired, small, volatile, whom she was intimately related to but whom shenever mingled with, and Fred, fair and responsive, whom she adored but did not consider as a real, separatething. She was too much the centre of her own universe, too little aware of anything outside.The first person she met, who affected her as a real, living person, whom she regarded as having definiteexistence, was Baron Skrebensky, her mother's friend. He also was a Polish exile, who had taken orders, andhad received from Mr. Gladstone a small country living in Yorkshire.Anna became a tall, awkward girl. Her eyes were still very dark and quick, but they had grown careless, theyhad lost their watchful, hostile look. Her fierce, spun hair turned brown, it grew heavier and was tied back.She was sent to a young ladies' school in Nottingham.And at this period she was absorbed in becoming a young lady. She was intelligent enough, but not interestedin learning. At first, she thought all the girls at school very ladylike and wonderful, and she wanted to be likethem. She came to a speedy disillusion: they galled and maddened her, they were petty and mean. After theloose, generous atmosphere of her home, where little things did not count, she was always uneasy in theworld, that would snap and bite at every trifle.A quick change came over her. She mistrusted herself, she mistrusted the outer world. She did not want to goon, she did not want to go out into it, she wanted to go no further.Pursuing her splendid-lady ideal, Anna became a lofty demoiselle of sixteen, plagued by family shortcomings.She was very sensitive to her father. She knew if he had been drinking, were he ever so little affected, and shecould not bear it. He flushed when he drank, the veins stood out on his temples, there was a twinkling,cavalier boisterousness in his eye, his manner was jovially overbearing and mocking. And it angered her.When she heard his loud, roaring, boisterous mockery, an anger of resentment filled her. She was quick toforestall him, the moment he came in.She was seventeen, touchy, full of spirits, and very moody: quick to flush, and always uneasy, uncertain. Forsome reason or other, she turned more to her father, she felt almost flashes of hatred for her mother. Hermother's dark muzzle and curiously insidious ways, her mother's utter surety and confidence, her strangesatisfaction, even triumph, her mother's way of laughing at things and her mother's silent overriding ofvexatious propositions, most of all her mother's triumphant power maddened the girl.She became sudden and incalculable. Often she stood at the window, looking out, as if she wanted to go.Sometimes she went, she mixed with people. But always she came home in anger, as if she were diminished,belittled, almost degraded.But Anna was uneasy. She wanted to get away. Yet wherever she went, there came upon her that feeling ofthinness, as if she were made smaller, belittled. She hastened home.But the courtship went on. Anna would find occasion to go shopping in Ilkeston at evening. She alwaysreturned with her cousin; he walking with his head over her shoulder, a little bit behind her, like the Devillooking over Lincoln, as Brangwen noted angrily and yet with satisfaction.Anna loved the child very much, oh, very much. Yet still she was not quite fulfilled. She had a slightexpectant feeling, as of a door half opened. Here she was, safe and still in Cossethay. But she felt as if shewere not in Cossethay at all. She was straining her eyes to something beyond. And from her Pisgah mount,which she had attained, what could she see? A faint, gleaming horizon, a long way off, and a rainbow like anarchway, a shadow-door with faintly coloured coping above it. Must she be moving thither?
- To Ursula, a child of eight, the increase in magic was considerable. She heard all the talk, she saw the parishroom fitted up as a workshop. The parish room was a high, stone, barn-like, ecclesiastical building standingaway by itself in the Brangwens' second garden, across the lane. She was always attracted by its age and itsstranded obsoleteness. Now she watched preparations made, she sat on the flight of stone steps that camedown from the porch to the garden, and heard her father and the vicar talking and planning and working. Thenan inspector came, a very strange man, and stayed talking with her father all one evening. Everything wassettled, and twelve boys enrolled their names. It was very exciting.But to Ursula, everything her father did was magic. Whether he came from Ilkeston with news of the town,whether he went across to the church with his music or his tools on a sunny evening, whether he sat in hiswhite surplice at the organ on Sundays, leading the singing with his strong tenor voice, or whether he were inthe workshop with the boys, he was always a centre of magic and fascination to her, his voice, sounding out incommand, cheerful, laconic, had always a twang in it that sent a thrill over her blood, and hypnotised her. Sheseemed to run in the shadow of some dark, potent secret of which she would not, of whose existence even shedared not become conscious, it cast such a spell over her, and so darkened her mind.