毕业论文外文翻译--多丽丝.莱辛《金色笔记》的女权主义解释.docVIP

Feminist Interpretation of Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook Abstract: Doris Lessing is undoubtedly one of the most influential women writers in the 20th century. In 1962, her masterpiece The Golden Notebook was published. It is regarded as the companion volume of Simon de Beauvoirs The Second Sex. The novel soon became popular among the feminists because of its realistic description about womens independent consciousness and their living condition. This thesis has been written with the aim to interpret The Golden Notebook from the perspective of feminism. The novels theme, structure, characters, narrative style serve well for the aim of feminist interpretation. The thesis also innovatively discusses the challenges to feminism reflected from The Golden Notebook. Key words: Doris Lessing; The Golden Notebook; feminism; Free Women Introduction: Doris Lessing has created her novel The Golden Notebook in 1962. She put the novel under the social background of London at the time from 1950s to1960s. During this period, the original values and moral standard of Europe have been collapsed because of the influence of World WarⅡ. The chaotic world has brought people endless puzzle and strong spiritual shock especially to those intellectual people who care about the world situation. The protagonist of The Golden Notebook Anna is more than thirty years old. She calls herself “free woman”——she lives a kind of free life with the remuneration from her first novel; she chooses her lover freely without the bondage of marriage; she has divorced and brought up her daughter alone. When her lover who has lived with her for 5 years leaves her. She has to reconsider her life. She feels that her life is just in a mess. As a writer, she suffers from the “writer’s block”, She is not able to create literary works anymore. As a free woman, she found that she could not get rid of the pain brought about by his lover’s betrayal. Finally she encountered the collapse of her own world. She f