Doris Lessing's Unique Feminism Perspective

Doris Lessing, who is a contemporary British writer, was called "the greatest female writer after Woolf", and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2007. Lessing's novels have unique style, profound meaning, and diverse subjects, showing her worries and concerns to the times, female, environment, human being. There are countless researches on the feminist thoughts of Lessing at home and abroad, these treatise all envision the feminist ideas by analyzing the text, but did not distinguish Lessing from the traditional feminism, also did not reveal the uniqueness of female perspective in her works.This article analyzes the uniqueness of feminist ideas in Lessing's works mainly from the following several aspects:The first part analyses Lessing's feminism thoughts of her literary works. Through the introduction of Lessing's characteristics, experience in the life and of the writing, briefly reviewing the western feminism development course and British feminist literary tradition, therefore to dig up the personal and social cultural roots of the uniqueness of female perspective in her works. The second part, with the method of theme study, analyses feminist thoughts performance in Lessing's works, showing people its uniqueness and profundity of feminist thoughts. The third part reveals and clarifies thoughts connotation and aesthetic values in her feminist literary works which distinguish Lessing from the traditional feminism.In her novels, Lessing always, through female's unique sensitiveness and conscious experience to observe life, describe social condition and make cultural critique. But due to the influence of the social environment, feminism and the times theme were mutually interwoven to make feminist perspective broad and deep. Lessing's works also showed complicated ideological contents, not only revealing the sins of colonialism and the harm of male social systems, but also deep thoughts of the future destiny of human b eings. And we can see, different from traditional female writer's creation, Lessing's female theme is just a kind of literary strategy, rather than her value and ideals. She completely goes beyond the female perspective, and structures the ideal future world from the aspect of universal value. Such perspective and strategy fully confirms the value of females, fully displays the real prospect of the times and the history, criticizes the unequal social phenomenon, advocates a gender equality, harmony between human and nature, and provides a new perspective and dimension for female literature even world literature.