Doris Lessing-英國文學課件

1、Doris LessingSybil英語文學1311820108Profile目 錄 / Contents01Productions02The Grass is Singing030405I ProfileDoris Lessing (22 October 1919 17 November 2013)was a British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. The oldest winner of Nobel Prize for literature the oldest w

2、oman winner of Nobel Prize1919She was born in Iran.1937She soon married her first husband,1949Lessing moved to London.1935She left school and started to go to work.1945She married her second husband.Lessing first sold stories to magazines at the age of 15, in South Africa. Doris Lessing 1950The Gras

3、s is Singing1962The Golden Notebook2013She died on 17 November，aged 94, at her home in London,1956She was an active opponent of apartheid which led to being banned from South Africa for many years.2007 Lessing was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.（88 歲）Her first novel, The Grass is Singing, was

4、 published in 1950. Her breakthrough work, The Golden Notebook, was written in 1962. By the time of her death, more than 50 of her novels had been published.Doris Lessing 自南非白人政權自1956年起，萊辛就被禁止前往南非地區(qū)。一直到白人政權倒臺以后的1995年，她才得以重訪南非，中間相隔的時間是40年。1994年4月，非國大在南非首次不分種族的大選中獲勝。同年5月，曼德拉成為南非第一位黑人總統(tǒng)。01The Grass is

5、Singing 195003Memoirs of a Survivor 197402The Golden Notebook196204Love,again1996Production Linewriting characteristicsBBC評論的一百本最棒的英國小說之一3 The Grass is SingingThe Grass is Singing,which was published in 1950 with outstanding success in Britain,in America,and in ten European countries.The Grass is Si

6、ngingPlot1、ProtagonistMary (a white womanMoses (a black servant of MaryDick Turner (a white man of Marys husband2、Exposition - Elaboration - Climax - DenouementPlot-The Grass is SingingExposition：Mary has a happy and satisfied life as a single white woman.She has a fine job, numerous friends, and va

7、lues her independence. （老處女）Nevertheless, after overhearing an insulting remark at a party about her spinsterhood, she resolves to marry.（恨嫁）Elaboration：The man she marries, after a brief courtship, Dick Turner, is a white farmer struggling to make his farm profitable.（花樣作死）They didnt have any kids

8、because of poverty.Also，Mary is overtly racist.(種族主義者）Then the worker, Moses comes to be an important man for Marys life when he is taken to be a servant for the house.（男主登場chapter7）After many years living on the farm together, Mary often goes through spells of depression.In her frailty, Mary relys

9、more and more on Moses. As Mary becomes weaker, she finds herself feeling endearment towards Moses.（婚外情）The Grass is SingingDenouementMoses killed Mary with angry.The book closes with Marys death at the hand of Moses. Mary is expecting his arrival and is aware of her imminent death. Moses does not r

10、un from the scene as he originally intends but waits a short distance away for the arrival of the police.（情殺）The Grass is SingingThemeLiving environment and social status of women, racial discrimination system and cultural and historical background for personal life impact. The book by describing th

11、e tragic fate of a typical heroine Marys significance, reveals the nature of the relationship of different races, different classes of people under colonial rule between systems, analysis of the original causes of social Mary tragic outcome.（總之就是各種高大上）Appreciation-The Grass is SingingMoreVideo： /play/doris.lessing/3Web： /index.html2007諾貝爾文學獎 多麗絲萊辛(D