Symbolism In The Rocking Horse

Hester feels worries when Paul is ill, but she does not know that her own actions may have contributed to Paul’s death. “His mother sat, feeling her heart had gone, turned actually into a stone” (746).

Further, Paul’s rocking horse represents as symbol of isolation from the world and fulfilling desire of his mother. Paul rides the horse on an imaginary track, and states “‘now take me to where there is luck!’ He knew the horse could take him to where there was luck. He would start on his furious ride again, hoping at last to get there” (737). The rocking horse is converted from a simple toy to a symbol of death, as it acts to transport Paul away from his life. “He was very frail, and his eyes were very uncanny” (745). The main symbol utilized by Lawrence in the story is the whispering of the house. This symbol is used to show Hester’s vicious circle of greed and Paul’s apparent need for love. The silent whispering of the house crying, “There must be more money!” (734) is a repeated message that greatly affects the

In this case, he gives us the concept of re-people, regeneration and re-creation of Adam and Eve by using the faculty of imagination and inception and through this story; he has shown the conflict between reality and idealism, between art and nature. We also come to know that nature remains same irrespective of time and space but art changes as we observe in the case of Adam and Eve who visited many places and inculcate various interpretations of different places. They gain multifarious experiences after visiting these places and they look upwards to the sky to have connection with their origin. They do not adjust in this re-designated worldly places as they feel alone and