Pandora's Magical Box

As a writer, the most obvious characteristic of Marguerite Duras'work embedded various forms of evil in the fractured and repeated words, including war, madness, death, taboos, desire, destruction, etc. However, she never intends to write evil for evil. taking the rapid development of modern thought as the background, taking the later colonial theory, feminist theory, and existential theory as the vanguard, extracting thinking of human nature, world situation and existence itself from her works,author strive to make empty theory have practical methodological significance. On the basis of research, the paper touch Duras'deep inner world, in order to appreciate her excellence as a writer.Introduction mainly outlines the rapid development of postmodernism, and makes brief discussion for post-colonial theory, feminist theory, and existential theory how to deeply influence Duras.Body parts are discussed from three aspects. With the view of post-colonial theory, the first chapter mainly analyzes Duras Double-sided nature reflected in the writing process as a mixed status writer. On the one hand, she unconsciously makes the racial superiority externalization, and takes this superiority into the praise of colonialism. On the anther hand, the cruel reality made her show the colonial evil with the emotional way. The two expressions make the post-colonialism have realistic basis and more three-dimensional sense. With feminism as the cornerstone,the second part discuss three forms, namely writing, Insanity and sex anomaly, which are regarded as Taboo under the operation of power. The third part discuss Duras how to find meaning of life, and how to attempt to transcend absurdity but doesn't feel tireless between the women desire that orthodox concept hold in scorn and death that is contrary to rebirth.The last part of the paper attempt to illustrate why Duras'work is full of evil, in order to further understand the reason why she had to do so is looking for the existence for herself, other women and whole mankind.