Brief note on D.H. Lawrence's The Rainbow.

 D.H. Lawrence's The Rainbow was banned upon publication for its alleged immorality. It is a family chronicle of three generations. 

Tom Brangwen and his forbears had long held Marsh Farm in Nottingham. His marriage to the Polish widow Lydia Lensky added a foreign element into the family. Tom's step daughter, Anna,  marries Tom's nephew Will Brangwen and has numerous children. Her daughter Ursula was fortunate enough to receive a college education. She has a very impressive love affair with Anton Skrebensky, a Polish officer in the British army. After departure of Anton, Ursula finds herself pregnant but Anton has married his commander's daughter. After that Ursula loses the child but during recovery sees the rainbow in the sky. She has a number of experiences and develops through various frustations and agonies. 

Lawrence examines basic sexual relationships. Ursula Brangwen is the main character, and her yearning for liberation is the theme of the novel. Ursula is the first modern women who searches for liberation from the bondage of sex and social constraints. Lawrence  in his novel The Rainbow suggests Ursula's disappointments, disgrace, and disgust and ultimate glimpse of the promise of a new era through images, symbols, rhythns and psychological reaction.