Essay On The Rocking Horse Winner

According to Freud’s unconscious theory, our repressed need, socially-unacceptable thoughts, and distressing and truncated feelings exist in our unconscious, and it is the unconscious that resolved and explains one’s lifestyle or even one’s personality. The house is represented as Paul’s unconscious recalling him of his mental agony and pain; of “luck” he should bring to his mother to seek her attention. In this way, this message exposed Paul’s oedipal-rooted sexual stimuli to satisfy what he desires for without knowing him what precisely it is, and this is mainly the cause of his invisible suffering throughout the story which could embodied in his big blue eyes blazing with a sort of madness. Plus, the tone of the some words he uses unconsciously such as “filthy lucre” when he is talking with his mother could further reinforce our conjecture of him entanglement with Oedipus complex.

So, Lawrence influenced by Hawthorne’s puritan themes which are sin, damnation and evil, he did only borrow these themes but he reworked and gave new interpretation of the meaning of good and evil. According to him, evil is not external factor but it worked internal at home and no need to go outside or in a forest to incarnate evil force

However, the main emphasis is put to the similarities and differences between these two stories in the setting from a fictional point of view. The conflict of good and evil is a hot topic in writing and is available in the stories "Young Goodman Brown,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne and "The Rocking-Horse Winner" by Lawrence. The stories, "Young Goodman Brown,” and "The Rocking-Horse Winner", can be compared on the basis of Puritanism and how the portrayal of evil is displayed in each story. “Young Goodman Brown” and “The Rocking Horse Winner” use symbolism, names of the characters, and the setting to portray