T H E S I S

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Lawrence said in his defence:
"There is no more indecency or impropriety in The Rainbow
than there is in this autumn morning - I who say so ought
to know. And when I open my mouth let no dog bark.“ (FRL 1^5)
This novel unfolds the story of three generations of a Midland
family, the Brangwens. Lawrence tried to build up a study
of his own beliefs in marriage based on the union of the sexes
to attain an accomplished life for man and woman, Tom Brang-
wen marries a Polish widow, Anna Lensky, and discovers that love
must come to terms with the other forces that make up a human
personality, including sex. But Ursula (Anna's grand-daughter)
and Skrebensky form the couple(in the third generation) who are
really striving for fulfilment in the sexual relations. The Rainbow
is the least autobiographical of Lawrence’s novels and only
Ursula bears something approaching an autobiographical relation to
Lawrence^ according to F.R.Leavis«(FRL 137)
In this novel Lawrence began to “preach" his doctrine of
sex which became the cornerstone of most of his writings, especially
in his last period, the critical essays and Lady Chatterley’s
Lover:
the supreme importance of fulfilment in the individual
and a faith that the sexual fulfilment is the ultimate.
Women in Love is a sequel to The Rainbow and grew out of
the second part of the first draft of The Sisters«
The final
draft was written in 1916, but (because of The Rainbow’s fate)
the publication took place only in 1920, in New York; it was published
in England in 1921«
Women in Love is the story of two sisters, their lives,
their lovers, and the emotional conflicts they face because of
the necessity for sexual fulfilment. Ursula (the same character