Shapes of Femininity in D. H. Lawrence's The Rainbow

<p>D. H. Lawrence provides justice to women’s role by<br>highlighting Ursula as a modern woman who explores her<br>identity in the patriarchal society. Through the fictitious<br>tale, Rainbow, women can be as men and men can be like<br>women. She performs like a man and that means she has<br>masculine traits. The writer delineates Ursula as a modern<br>woman because she can develop distinct characteristics of<br>her personality. She is an emancipated modern woman.<br>She does not behave according to norms of Victorian<br>society. So, she is a new woman rather than a woman. He<br>emphasizes how a woman can perform like a new woman;<br>this shows new woman is not the private property of a<br>man; it is a social condition that can be practiced in an<br>individual way. </p>