The purpose of the following chapters is to examine the symbolic mode as used by Lawrence in The Rainbow, Women in Love, The Plumed Serpent and Lady Chatterley's Lover and to estimate, in each of these novels how far the author captured "the sensual awareness" by examining the relationship of the symbolic pattern to the characterisation and the ideas expressed and to see if, in the course of his career, there were any developments or changes in Lawrence's use of this mode.