安娜的生存困境和应对策略——《金色笔记》的存在主义解读-annas survival dilemma and countermeasures - existentialist interpretation of golden notebook.docxVIP

ABSTRACTDorisLessing,thewell-knowncontemporaryBritishwriter,isregardedasthegreatestfemalewriterafterVirginiaWoolf.Lessing’srepresentativeworkTheGoldenNotebook,whichwaspublishedin1962,isacknowledgedasoneofthe20thcenturyclassicsofBritishliteratureaftermanyyearsofarguments.Duetothisgreatwork,LessingwontheNobelPrizeinLiteratureintheyear2007.TheGoldenNotebookmainlyconsistsoftwoparts:onepartisaframenovelnamedTheFreeWomenwhichtellsofthedailylifeofAnnaandMolly;theotherpartisfivenotebooksofdifferentcolors:theblacknotebookrecordsAnna’slifeinAfricaandherconsiderationaboutherworkFrontierofWar;therednotebookisaboutAnna’spoliticalactivitieswithintheBritishpoliticalparty;theyellownotebookisAnna’smanuscriptofhernovelTheShadowoftheThirdwhichiswrittenaccordingtoherownloveexperiences;thebluenotebookcanberegardedasAnna’sprivatediarywhichrecordsheremotionandpsychologicalactivitiesaboutlife;thegoldennotebookisAnna’schoiceforherlifewhichsignifiesherrecoveryfrommentalbreakdown.AsAnna’slifeexperiencescorrespondtotheexistentialismtheorytoagreatextent,thethesisendeavorstocombinethenovelwiththeexistentialism,aimingnotonlytoprovidearelativelynewwaytounderstandthemeaningsofthenovel,butalsotoshowLessing’sprofoundconsiderationofhumanexistence.Thethesismainlyusesthreeexistentialismnotions:absurdity;alienation;freechoiceandresponsibility.Thethesismainlyincludessixchapters.ChapterOnemainlyintroducesTheGoldenNotebook’sliterarycriticisminChinaandabroad.iiiThischapteralsopointsoutthethesis’studyproblems,procedureandsignificance.ChapterTwomainlyintroducestheexistentialistrepresentativeJean-PaulSartre’scoreconcepts:absurdity,alienation,freechoiceandresponsibility.ChapterThreeanalyzesthereflectionofabsurdityinthenovel.HavingexperiencedtheabsurdlifeinAfrica,inBritishpoliticalpartyandinherwritingcareer,Annasensestheoverwhelmingabsurdity.ChapterFourvividlydescribesthealienationthemefromAnna’salienatedrelationshipswithherbestfriendMolly,herdaughterandherlover.ChapterFiveisaboutAnna’sstrategiesaboutherlifepredi