Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Der Regenbogen
Für wen es gedacht ist
For readers who love family sagas, stories of marriage and inner life, and writing shaped by feeling more than plot. The Brangwens’ search for love, identity and a whole self brings faith, work and desire into focus.
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The Rainbow is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, published in 1915. It follows one English family, the Brangwens, through three generations, from the middle of the nineteenth century into the early years of the twentieth. Lawrence was the son of a Nottinghamshire coal miner, and he knew the farms, the villages and the mining towns he describes. He wrote the book as the First World War began, while living with his wife Frieda.
The novel is about how men and women try to live with one another, and how each person tries to become a whole self. It asks what marriage can give, what religion can give, and what work can give in a world that is changing fast. Canals, railways and collieries move into the old farm country, and the people have to find new ways to be alive. Within weeks of its publication, the book was seized by the authorities and ordered destroyed, because it spoke so openly about desire and the body.
What you get here is the shape of a story told in brief: the farm, the marriages, the quarrels, and the daughter who finally steps out into the modern world. You will also hear how Lawrence tells it, which is unlike most novels of his day. Let us begin where he begins, on a farm in the meadows of the Erewash valley.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1The Brangwens live close to the landFree
- 2Tom marries a foreign widow
- 3Anna and Will fall in love in the fields
- 4Marriage becomes a struggle of wills
- 5Ursula grows up asking for more
- 6Ursula finds a teacher and a trade
- 7Love and the modern world collide
- 8What the book is really about
- 9How Lawrence tells it
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The Brangwens live close to the land
The novel opens at Marsh Farm, where the Brangwens have lived for generations. The farm lies in the meadows by the river Erewash, which divides Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire. Lawrence describes a life of seasons, animals, milking and harvest. The men look down at the soil and feel the warm pulse of the farm in their blood.
The women of the family are different. They look up and out, toward the church spire, the road and the town beyond the fields. They want to learn, to rise, to know the wider world, and they envy the vicar and the gentry for their words and their education. So from the first pages the family is pulled between two ways of living. One is the rooted, bodily life of the farm. The other is the restless life of the mind and of ambition.
Then change begins to press on this quiet place. A canal is cut across the land, and a colliery opens nearby. Later a railway comes through. Lawrence treats these arrivals as slow, heavy events that touch every household, long before anyone says a word about them. The farm is still there, but the age of machines is moving in around it.
The first generation centres on Tom Brangwen, a young farmer who is shy and rather dumb with words, yet full of feeling. He is drawn to the unknown, and he sometimes feels that his life is too small and too closed. He cannot say what he wants, and at times he drinks to ease the ache. The book has not yet shown him a way out.
This opening matters because it sets the pattern for everything that follows. Each Brangwen will long for something beyond the fence, and each will pay a price for reaching. Lawrence suggests that the longing is the thing that moves a family through time. Tom's story is where the longing first finds a face, and it arrives in the shape of a stranger.
That’s 1 of 9 key points.
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Questions about Der Regenbogen
What is The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence about?
It follows three generations of the Brangwen family in the English Midlands, from a farm to a modern town. It deals with marriage, faith and work, and gives its last section to Ursula, a young woman seeking a fuller life.
Why was The Rainbow banned?
Soon after it appeared in 1915, the book was seized and ordered destroyed by a court, which found it obscene. The charge rested on its frank treatment of sexual feeling and on the war-time mood against it.
What does the rainbow mean in the novel?
It recalls the biblical rainbow that followed the flood, a sign of promise and renewal. In the book it stands for hope that people and the world can change and begin again.
Is The Rainbow hard to read?
No. The story is easy to step into because it follows one family, the Brangwens, from generation to generation, beginning on a farm by the river Erewash. Each part gives you a new couple and a clear turn in their lives, so you always know where you are.
Do I need to read The Rainbow before Women in Love?
It helps, since Ursula appears in both, and Women in Love continues her story with her sister Gudrun. But The Rainbow was written first and stands well as a novel in its own right.