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This article discusses the subjectivity in The Rainbow of the D. H. Lawrence and in the books of M. M. Bakhtin, especially The Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics and Dialogic Imagination. Lawrence embodies Ursula Brangwen, the subject who coexists among others, and determines everything for himself. Analogically, Bakhtin explores the novelistic world which is akin to that of Lawrence. As a result the subject Bakhtin defines can be characterized as following: He or She establishes his or her own subjectivity by coexisting responding continuously among the others with the various ideas or ideologies. This novelistic world represents the individual condition in our society. It also seems to be an ideal of the society which Lawrence and Bakhtin map out. Lawrence's novelistic subject must successfully accomplish if she are to overcome her ethical solipsism, her disunited idealistic consciousness, and transform the other person from a shadow into an authentic reality. At the heart of the catastrophe in Lawrence's novel there lies the solipsistic separation of a subject's consciousness from the whole, her carceration in her own private world. Whether the life of his heroine is tragic or not, Lawrence, like Bakhtin, tries to emancipate his novelistic subject from the monological, suppressive ideas or ideologies in both his traditional and modern societies.