| Doris Lessing is one of the most prestigious writers in contemporary English literature, who known as "the greatest female writers after Woolf," and she won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007. As a writer with high social responsibility, keen insight and serious attitude towards all the aspects of the society, Lessing created a great deal of works with diverse themes and high value interpretation in her long writing history. As an eternal topic in human history, growth was naturally included into the works of Lessing. The author believes that the research on Lessing’s writing of growth can not only enrich the country’s research on Doris Lessing, have a deeper understanding of Lessing’s deep humanitarian feelings, but also can cause readers’ and social’s concern and thinking about growing. Therefore, it has some practical significance.On the basis of Lessing’s works in various periods, this study tried to present the writing of growth in Lessing’s works and explore deep implication behind the characters by careful text reading. This paper consists of five parts: Introduction section introduces the creation and research status of Doris Lessing, and defines Lessing’s writing of growth; the first chapter is to explore the motivation of writing growth by analyzing Lessing’s own experience and life experience; the second chapter, by analyzing the works, the author aims to present Lessing’s writing of growth in terms of three aspects: the characters’ process of growth, the outcome of growth and pathfinder of growth. In addition, it will reveal the general laws of growth; the third chapter discusses the adoption of bicultural perspective in Lessing’s writing of growth, namely, feminist perspective and the perspective of post-colonialism, which reflects Lessing’s keen interest in the growth of marginal figures such as women and people of African colonies, and reveals her critique of male-centralism and colonialism; chapter four mainly focuses on the three factors that affect the growth of the characters to discover the Inner Meaning of Lessing’s writing of growth, which reveal the presence of social, ethical and personal psychological crises in the process of characters’ growth. View to draw attention to contemporary society and thinking adolescent development. |
