RELATIONS OF DOMINANCE AND EQUALITY IN D. H. LAWRENCE

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the self Which has made Ursula write that letter to Skrebensky
because in their relationship she can hardly be said to have
been passive with her lover.)
It is the definitive end of her
conflict.
And as the conflict has manifested itself in the
child Ursula is expecting, the consequent result is the
miscarriage.
It is the death of the old Ursula who is now
almost ready to be reborn out of the ashes.
However, the new
Ursula still has a long road to discover and improve her new
self.
The beginning of the discovery is the denial of the 'son
of God' in Skrebensky and the assertion that she does not have
to create her man "but.to recognize a man created by God" (p.494).
This new fact does not imply that she will submit to him because
this man she will recognize, is not to choose her as she
thought before: she, as well as him, belongs to 'Eternity'.
The final point to be analysed is the meaning of the
rainbow which Ursula sees at the end of the novel.
Despite the
fact that the rainbow represents Ursula's rebirth, the facts of
her experience do not bear out its implications.
Ursula seems
indeed a new woman but one who still has some strong elements of
her old self.
These remnants are seen in terms of her high
expectations for the future.
Ursula sees in the rainbow the
recreation of life, the renewal of "the stiffened bodies of the
colliers" (p.495) who are like dead people. But Ursula seems
to be blinded to her own past.
Again she is escaping from her
past experiences and taking an overdose of hope through the
promise of the rainbow.
Nobody, not even the author, can
guarantee that the dead colliers will join her in her
expectations. Lawrence simply presents the rainbow as a false
door.
He himself does not assure the reader that the door is not
another gate to the next 'ugly yard' Ursula is going to enter.