安娜的生存困境和应对策略——《金色笔记》的存在主义解读.pdfVIP

ABSTRACT DorisLessing,thewell-knowncontemporaryBritishwriter,isregardedasthegreatestfemale writer after Virginia Woolf. Lessing’s representative work The Golden Notebook, which was th published in 1962,is acknowledged as one of the 20 century classics of British literature after manyyearsofarguments.Duetothisgreatwork,LessingwontheNobelPrizeinLiteratureinthe year2007. TheGoldenNotebookmainlyconsistsoftwoparts:onepartisaframenovelnamed TheFree WomenwhichtellsofthedailylifeofAnnaandMolly;theotherpartisfivenotebooksofdifferent colors: the black notebook records Anna’s life in Africa and her consideration about her work Frontier of War;the red notebook is aboutAnna’spolitical activitieswithin the Britishpolitical party; the yellow notebook isAnna’smanuscript ofher novel TheShadow of the Thirdwhich is written according to her own love experiences; the blue notebook can be regarded as Anna’s private diary which records her emotion and psychological activities about life; the golden notebookisAnna’schoiceforherlifewhichsignifiesherrecoveryfrommentalbreakdown. AsAnna’slifeexperiencescorrespondtotheexistentialismtheorytoagreatextent,thethesis endeavors to combine the novel with the existentialism, aiming not only to provide a relatively new way to understand the meanings of the novel, but also to show Lessing’s profound consideration ofhuman existence.The thesis mainly uses three existentialismnotions: absurdity; alienation;freechoiceandresponsibility. Thethesismainlyincludessixchapters. ChapterOnemainlyintroducesTheGoldenNotebook’sliterarycriticisminChinaandabroad.