安娜的生存困境和應(yīng)對(duì)策略——金色筆記的存在主義解讀

1、山 西 大 學(xué)2015 屆碩士學(xué)位論文安娜的生存困境和應(yīng)對(duì)策略——《金色筆記》的存在主義解讀安娜的生存困境和應(yīng)對(duì)策略——《金色筆記》的存在主義解讀二〇一五年六月作者姓名 王蓓指導(dǎo)教師 白愛(ài)宏學(xué)科專業(yè) 英語(yǔ)語(yǔ)言文學(xué)研究方向 英美文學(xué)培養(yǎng)單位 外國(guó)語(yǔ)學(xué)院學(xué)習(xí)年限 2012 年 9 月—2015 年 6 月iiiABSTRACTDoris Lessing, the well-known contemporary British writer,

2、 is regarded as the greatest femalewriter after Virginia Woolf. Lessing’s representative work The Golden Notebook, which waspublished in 1962, is acknowledged as one of the 20th century classics of British literature aft

3、ermany years of arguments. Due to this great work, Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature in theyear 2007.The Golden Notebook mainly consists of two parts: one part is a frame novel named The FreeWomen which tells of

4、the daily life of Anna and Molly; the other part is five notebooks of differentcolors: the black notebook records Anna’s life in Africa and her consideration about her workFrontier of War ; the red notebook is about Anna

5、’s political activities within the British politicalparty; the yellow notebook is Anna’s manuscript of her novel The Shadow of the Third which iswritten according to her own love experiences; the blue notebook can be reg

6、arded as Anna’sprivate diary which records her emotion and psychological activities about life; the goldennotebook is Anna’s choice for her life which signifies her recovery from mental breakdown.As Anna’s life experienc

7、es correspond to the existentialism theory to a great extent, the thesisendeavors to combine the novel with the existentialism, aiming not only to provide a relativelynew way to understand the meanings of the novel, but

8、also to show Lessing’s profoundconsideration of human existence. The thesis mainly uses three existentialism notions: absurdity;alienation; free choice and responsibility.The thesis mainly includes six chapters.Chapter O