摘要本文旨在是分析《金色笔记》中自由女性所处的困境以及最终寻求到的出路， 从而为当代知识女性提供一条可供参考的自我解放之路。论文首先描述了自由女性安娜所处困境的种种具体情态：写作危机，政治危机和爱情危机，即最终使自由女性陷入崩溃的原因，并简述了安娜寻找出路的过程并对此出路做出解释，提出了新的枷锁会不断出现而女性需要以乐观心态去面对的观点，最后作者总结出了《金色笔记》中自由女性出路的意义。67682

毕业论文关键词  金色笔记   自由女性   困境

Title  Unbreakable Shackles ——The Analysis of Anna’s Crises and Breakthrough in the Golden Notebook

Abstract

The paper aims to study the plight of free woman Anna and the way she has found to break out in the Golden Notebook to provide a useful reference for modern educated women who are seeking for self-liberation. The paper firstly describes Anna’s plight involving writing crisis, political crisis and love crisis in detail, and these crises have directly caused Anna’s neurotic breakdown. After describing Anna’s process of finding a way out, it aims to explain the way Anna chooses and show that new crises will come one after another in women’s whole life and they have to be optimistic. At last, the author concludes the significance of the way out for free women in the novel.

Keywords   the Golden Notebook   free women   plight

Table of Contents

1  Introduction 1

1.1  The Literature Review of the Golden Notebook1

1.2   The Arguments about the Golden Notebook..3

2  Crises of Free Women..3

2.1  The Concrete Forms of the Crises. 3

2.2  The Further Crisis: Breakdown5

3  The Process of Seeking a Way Out.6

3.1  Introspecting the relationship with the World around.6

3.2  Analysis of Self.7

3.3  Newborn to Face More Shackles.7

4  The Way of Free Women.8

4.1  The Way Anna chooses..8

4.2  The Revelation for the Growth of Women.9

Conclusion.11

Acknowledgements...12

Bibliography.13

1 Introduction

Lessing's the Golden Notebook is one of the most important feminist works in the last century. In the same era, it is difficult to find another work that has described the situation of women in such a detailed and profound way. The most important significance of the novel is that it is an epic of educated women's experiences about self-liberation.

In the Golden Notebook, Lessing has a rational look at almost all aspects of Western free women and highlights various difficulties the intellectual women have encountered in the process of seeking self-liberation. This novel depicts the plight of free women far beyond the works of feminism in other times. Lessing tries to analyze all the survival crises of free women from a broader perspective, and more importantly, she provides a unique outlet for free women, which is the reason why the Golden Notebook is so profound.

1.1 The Literature Review of the Golden Notebook

The Golden Notebook, published in 1962, having won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007, is a perfect combination of its content and form. In the earlier times, the experts have made comprehensive research on Lessing, discussing the concept of Lessing’s living philosophy and its relation to the novel as well as brilliant analysis of the flow of time and “Sufism” (Guo Zhiwen, 2011:139-141). After the 20th century, more researches analyze the novel from new perspectives respectively on the topics of narrative techniques and the relationship between men and women. For example, “some uses Brecht's dramatic theory to analyze the overall integration of the notes” (Guo Zhiwen, 2011:139-141). Overall, the researches about this novel are mainly focused on two aspects: one is the survival plight of women in that era which reveals Lessing’ thought about the living conditions of women. Such thought aims to study the human existence as a whole, and to some extent, it is beyond the traditional feminism that struggles for power through the opposition against men; another is Lessing’s feminine consciousness in the novel. “The analysis interprets how to use Anna's experiences to deconstruct male-centered cultural order and pays attention to women’s pursuit of self-independence and complete liberation” (Lu Jing, 2008:78).