Thursday, February 7, 2019

Essay on Luck and Fate in The Rocking Horse Winner -- Rocking Horse Wi

Luck and Fate in The Rocking Horse Winner   The Rocking Horse Winner, by D.H. Lawrence, is an informative tommyrot closely prospect and ones own fortune.  In this story, Lawrence attempts to illustrate how one can die ones own fate, instead of allowing things to happen by chance.  He believes that the only psyche that affects what happens to someone, is really that person himself.  E trulything is what you make of it, is Lawrences message to the reader.  By his use of characterization, instructional images, and irony in The Rocking Horse Winner, D.H. Lawrence attempts to convey to the reader that success and luck are non something that one simply waits for to arrive, but things that one moldiness works to achieve.               Lawrence uses to contrasting characters to help convey his point, namely those of the boy Paul, and his mother, Hester.  Paul, concord to the story, is lucky, whereas his mother is not.  It was not simply decided upon that it would be this way, but severally character had a hand in how they would end up.  Pauls mother allowed herself to be resigned to the fact that fate had dealt her an unlucky hand.  Though she had three wonderful children, she could not love them.  Though she had a roof over her head, she was not content, and til now she did nothing to change this besides wait for the difference that never came.  The story says that Hester wanted to be first in something, and did not succeed, and when she did not succeed, she go on instead of on the job(p) towards her goal.  Paul, on the other hand, learned very quickly that if he is to succeed, he must have dedication.  Paul apply him... ...mple, and death.  She discovers the poor boy rocking himself into unconsciousness on the horse, and only understands the significance and impressiveness of his exertion upon his death.  Pauls mother, the inadvertent teacher, be comes the student, only to lose her teacher.               Lawrence wishes for his readers to understand the significance of working towards your goals before enjoying the fruits of ones labor.  He instructs that waiting for good things to just fall into your intersection is a lost cause, and the odds are hugely against you.  If however, this does happen to you, that you should canvass your gold and sit on it,  before making any diversity of decision about its proper use.  Chances might be that the products themselves might render their use, as in Pauls case.  

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