The Distorted Personality And A Pathetic Song

This thesis is dedicated to the feminist study of Doris Lessing's (1919- ) first novel The Grass Is Singing(1950), by studying the characters and the text of the novel, to indicate the author's strong sympathy for the women who live in the colonial land and under the control of the patricentric society. Doris Lessing once remarked that we live in a series of prisons called race, class, male and female. There are always those classifications. Through this novel she successfully presented to the readers how the women in the colonial land live, and how their personalities are distorted. In The Grass Is Singing the protagonist Mary is just the epitome of all the colonial women. Under this circumstance, their revolt turns out to be voiceless and futile under the oppression of the society and culture. Their tragedy of the distorted personality is just a pathetic song.