The Rocking-Horse Winner The Rocking-Horse Winner is a complex story that is best understood if one examines it through the 5 Elements of Fiction: setting‚ character‚ plot‚ point of view and theme. This story is about a little boy named Paul who is trying to gain love and affection from his greedy mother. One day he told his mother that he had luck and he knew his mother did not believe him. This compelled him to go out and find luck on his own. He set off on his rocking horse on a journey to
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“For the love of money is the root of all evil.” in the short story‚ The Rocking Horse Winner by D.H Lawrence. The story is centered on Paul‚ a persistent young boy‚ who remains selfless in his quest to make his mother‚ Hester‚ a happy wealthy woman. Paul shows loyalty throughout the story‚ never giving up on bringing luck into his mother’s life. The happiness of his mother‚ motivates Paul to continue gambling on horse races. His naive belief that money would cure his mother’s depression over being
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The Rocking-Horse Loser Money‚ although important‚ is not the only thing that makes life worth living. However‚ for the characters in D. H. Lawrence’s short story “The Rocking-Horse Winner‚” money appears to be the only thing that produces happiness. This ideology proves quite toxic‚ as seen in the characterization of Paul and his mother; it is through these two vessels that Lawrence accentuates the consequences of greed and materialism. Paul’s death is the result of his mother’s selfishness which
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many great writers from Fitzgerald’s Gatsby to Milne’s Pooh‚ writers in the 1920’s wrote with themes centralizing around money‚ love‚ and the problems that follow in a fairy tale way. One man stands out from the rest with a great work titled The Rocking Horse Winner‚ in which D.H Lawrence depicts a scene of twisted virtues and painstaking love. " The final stories of D.H.‚ written in the middle and late 1920’s represent a period of formal experimentation in which he moved away from traditional narrative
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Materialism The theme of materialism is found in D.H. Lawrence’s story‚ “The Rocking-Horse Winner”. Materialism‚ according to Meriam-Webster‚ is a doctrine that the only or the highest values or objectives lie in material well-being and in the furtherance of material progress (Merriam-Webster’s‚ 2018). There are two references within “The Rocking-Horse Winner” that exemplify the theme of materialism. The first reference to materialism is the advantages used to describe Paul’s family. D.H. Lawrence
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extravagance‚ a perspective brought on by the harsh reality of World War I. The scarcity of resources combined with stark images of the war influenced writers to condemn the aristocracy for their excessive self-indulgence. In DH Lawrence’s “The Rocking Horse Winner” his hatred for the English people’s materialism is conveyed through the death of an innocent child. Without a doubt‚ DH Lawrence views England as a money-dominated society. In fact Koban states‚ “Lawrence hated money and warping of modern
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Professor Shearer English 101 February 2‚ 2013 “The Rocking Horse Winner” Lawrence son of a coal miner and a school teacher‚ was born and grew up in Nottinghamshire‚ England. Lawrence was rejected for the military service in World War 1 because of lung trouble. This story took place just years after World War 1. It took place near London; London’s Richmond Park. There are a couple of characters in this story. They are Paul‚ Hester‚ Paul’s father‚ Bassett‚ Oscar Creswell‚ Miss Wilmot‚ Paul’s two
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money to support the elegant lifestyle that she feels she deserves. After Paul receives a rocking horse one Christmas‚ he rides it often and develops an outlandish intuitive power that enables him to foresee the victors of the upcoming races. At the racetracks‚ with his dead on predictions‚ he wins thousands of pounds that he sets the winnings aside to cover the costs of his mother’s debts. Paul’s rocking horse and the whispering of the house represent his evident need for love. In her fixation with
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The Rocking Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) is a tragic story in which the protagonist Hester learns that money does not equal happiness. The setting in the short story is used to express Hester’s longing for luck and what comes along with it. The Rocking Horse Winner takes place approximately from August to End November early December. We can tell that it ends near November because near the end of the story Hester’s birthday arrives which is in November and the book takes place over
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People in life who are unware of how they affect others‚ brings out their struggle with ignorance. This ignorance can hit every aspect of their life. In the short story by D. H. Lawrence‚ “The Rocking-Horse Winner”‚ a young boy named Paul encounters a rough lifestyle due to fact that nothing is ever good enough for his dear mother‚ Hester. He takes the burden on himself‚ and tries to reclaim everything that his mother desperately longs for. As young as Paul is‚ he takes a huge responsibility
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