On The Marginalization Of The Weeds Were Singing In The Topic

This paper reveals the complicated relationships among the three characters(Mary Turner, Dick Turner and Moses) in The Grass is Singing from the perspectives of post-colonism and feminism. Based on the text, the cause-and-effect of the marginalization of the three characters and the social source of their tragic fates are analyzed. The twist of human nature, the unfair of the society and the last destruction reflected from Doris Lessing's individual, private narrative are also explored.The thesis falls into three chapters.The first chapter is "Lessing's life experience and creation in the colony." A wide range of topics such as politics, society, mother's love, female problem, the bisexual relationship are covered in her earlier works, which almost have a close relationship with her own experiences and are often considered autobiographic. From her two autobiographies Under My Skin and Walk in the Shadow, we can find the clue to her life in the colony though she doesn't want to mention, from which we can interpret her work.The second chapter is "The female's marginal survival". According to the subdivision of marginalization into cultural marginalization, social marginalization and structural marginalization by Billson(Billson,1988), Mary's survival and the set of her identity in The Grass is Singing is examined. From the two different stages, whether in the interior of the group (among the white/women) or exterior of the group (between the white and the aboriginals/between the white women and the black men), Mary is oppressed and survives with great difficulty. Her hysteria and craze at last is the only end to marginalization—destruction, both in the physical and in the mind.The third chapter is "race, identity and marginalization." In The Grass is Singing, Mary has intimate relationships with her husband Dick and her black servant Moses. The two men shared one thing:they are marginal and have the trouble in identity. When the conflict occurs and their behaviors challenge the authority of the colonists, they both go to their destruction—their only fate. Their marginalization attributes to many factors such as people, social status, nation, gender, race, color of the skin; the culture recognition and divergence in the process of human interaction result in the three characters'tragedy.