| Doris Lessing (1919——) is one of the most outstanding British female writer and the Noble Prize winner of 2007. The Golden Notebook which was published in 1962 is her masterpiece. The thesis clearly shows the theme of the novel——freedom, on the basis of Erich Fromm's views on freedom put forward in Escape from Freedom 1941. Free women are far away from positive freedom. And modern men feel anxious and restless in their mind. Mental puzzlement makes the acclaimed free women fall into negative freedom. After realizing their negative freedom, the characters in the novel use all kinds of mechanisms to get rid of their mental burdens, but all that they did were in vain. Human beings should accept their state actively, love the world and people without rewards and work spontaneously in order to get happiness. Using this new perspective, I want to reveal the novel's social value and realistic meaning.
|
PDF Full Text Request