저항과 재생 - D. H. Lawrence의 The Rainbow 중심으로

Resistance and Renewal in The Rainbow of D. H. Lawrence

  Lawrence believes that the most serious disease of the industrial civilization was caused by rigid intellectualism, scientism, mammonism, possessiveness and the distorted idea about sex. And lawrence, in his novel, The Rainbow, continues to investigate how we should realize and retain the real life of human beings against all those evils and the social diseases of the industrial world. Furthermore, he seeks for the possibilities of the renewal of the society and individuals. As a solution to the problems, in his novel, he proposes the self-realization and the restoration of the real human relationships. In The Rainbow, Ursula, the highly educated woman of the third generation resists the severe trials in her life. And she tries to establish self-sufficiency and to attain self-realization with her intellect and sensibility. But she also can"t reach this goal, and only alludes to some hope that she will never give up her efforts that she will be able to achieve it in the future.