RELATIONS OF DOMINANCE AND EQUALITY IN D. H. LAWRENCE

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Although it may seem strange to take this passage as positive,
we take it so because Ursula seems able to face the reality
outside herself.
She is not the only one in the world. However,
at the same time that it is positive it can also be taken as
negative: Ursula seems to see the colliers corrupted by
civilization and progress as if she were in a higher position,
as if she were out of the picture.
It appears thus that she does
not belong to the world which has corrupted the colliers.
She
seems blind to see that the same world which dehumanized men is
the same one Which made her go through all those terrible
experiences which she now. looks at as if she had overcome, them.
The third and final point relates to the sudden preeminence
of the rainbow symbol:
And then in the blowing clouds, she saw a band of
faint iridescence colouring in faint colours a
portion of the hill. And forgetting, startled, she
looked for the hovering colour and saw a rainbow
forming itself. In one place it gleamed fiercely,
and her heart anguished with hope, she sought the
'shadow of iris where the bow should be. Steadily
the colour gathered, mysteriously, from nowhere,
it took presence upon itself, there was a faint,
yast rainbow. The arc bended and strengthened
itselfjiill.:it arched indomitable, making great
architecture of light and colour in the space of
heaven, its pedestals luminous in the corruption
of the new houses on the low hill, its arch the top
of heaven (ibid).
Here Lawrence indeed seems to be putting his thumb in the scale
to favor Ursula's rebirth with too much optimism.
The author's
imposition of a fierce element of hope in the rainbow is still
seen only in Ursula's eyes ,which imply that she is trying to
overcome all her previous sufferings simply by deciding that the
rainbow will change everything.
It seems that again she is
putting an overdose of high expectations in the rainbow, like
she did with Brinsley Street school, for instance.
Who
guarantees that the colliers themselves see the rainbow? In