徐梦妍 多丽丝莱辛.ppt

Doris Lessing多丽丝?莱辛 英语11-3 徐梦妍 Family Early life Education Early life Lessing has described her childhood as an uneven不均匀的 mix of some pleasure and much pain. Her mother, obsessedv. 着迷（obsess的过去式）；纠缠 with raising a proper daughter, enforced a rigid严格的 system of rules and hygienen卫生；卫生学；保健法 at home, then installed Doris in a conventn 女修道院 school, where nuns修女 terrified their charges with stories of hell and damnation诅咒. Literary Style . Classification Successful Men (Richard and Michael) Extreme Male Activists (De Silva) Society Marginalized People( Ronnie) self-evaluation Lessing does not like the idea of being pigeon-holed as a feminist author. When asked why, she replies: What the feminists want of me is something they havent examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness. What they would really like me to say is, Ha, sisters, I stand with you side by side in your struggle toward the golden dawn where all those beastly men are no more. Do they really want people to make oversimplified statements about men and women? In fact, they do. Ive come with great regret to this conclusion. Remember that the book which bores you when bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you are forty or fifty--and vice-versa. ----Doris Lessing The golden Notebook Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier year. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment醒悟 with communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the heroine reviles辱骂 part of her own experience. And in the blue one she keeps a personal diary. Finally, in love with an American writer and threatened with insanity疯狂, Anna tries to bri