A literary analysis of ‘The Rocking Horse Winner’ by D H Lawrence can non neglect to advert the strong metaphor of the plaything swaying Equus caballus itself. Other strong metaphors include the race Equus caballuss and the thought of chancing in general. . The image of a male child swaying himself to illness and decease on a toy Equus caballus suggests a powerful and disconcerting metaphor for a child’s firing aspiration and hurt. and to understand the metaphor we must look more closely at the narrative itself.
In “The Rocking-Horse Winner. ” short narrative by D H Lawrence. a child gets the feeling that fortunes in his household are deteriorating financially and feels absolutely powerless to better the state of affairs. He sees the resentment of his mother’s discontent and attempts to better her batch. although she seems to pay him small respect. All her attending seems concentrated on a hubby who. despite his attempts. can ne’er supply plenty for her insatiate appetency for material things. Horses in general. chancing on their races and in peculiar. the swaying Equus caballus itself become metaphors for the child’s aspiration. and the goaded quality of his finding to win – at all costs.
The kid. Paul. decides that there will ne’er be agencies to back up his household unless he assumes some kind of control himself. Paul decides to decide the fiscal crisis through fortune. opportunity. destiny and chancing on Equus caballuss. He thinks that he can divine winning Equus caballuss in races by siting his ain plaything swaying Equus caballus. The Equus caballus metaphors suggest the subjects of aspiration in life turning to a blinkered neglect for the costs and effects in a narrow given country. a thrust bordering on compulsion.
Either by fortune or by opinion. Paul really starts to win money and hopes it will do his female parent happy. What he doesn’t realise is that she is the kind of individual whose appetency will merely turn and whose discontent is of her ain devising. The demand for money merely balloons out of control and household members start to set force per unit area on him. The strain of responsibility. trueness. duty. guilt. repression and denial of fondness and wages becomes so intolerable that he rides his rocking Equus caballus so frantically that he gets ill and collapses as his chosen Equus caballus is about to win a celebrated race.
D H Lawrence’s ain relationship with his female parent – one of love. but besides of control – is relevant to the narrative excessively. In his thrust to win. Paul echoes the demand of the immature Lawrence to delight his ain female parent – and of class. high spots another signifier of aspiration. that of her hopes and dreams for a talented immature boy in avoiding the pit life and taking for something arguably higher and more academic. The Equus caballus metaphor it seems. has deep roots in Lawrence’s ain childhood.
