生态主义视角下多丽丝•莱辛《野草在歌唱》研究_英语论文

A Study of Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing from the Perspective of Ecologism

摘要

多丽丝·莱辛是20世纪最杰出的英国女作家之一。《野草在歌唱》出版于1950年，是莱辛的处女作。在这部小说中，作者通过描述非洲殖民地残酷的现实生活，批判了白人殖民者破坏生态和谐的种种行为，同时揭示了金钱主义重压下被扭曲、异化的人性。

本论文主要从生态主义视角下对小说进行解读，分别剖析了小说中存在的自然生态危机、社会生态危机和精神生态危机。本文通过一些具体实例展现了人与自然、精神世界之间不同形式的生态冲突，进而发掘莱辛对人类生存现状的人文关怀。

本文从生态主义视角出发，解读作品中体现的生态危机，有助于读者更好地理解这部作品。同时也希望本篇论文可以引起更多学生和研究者的兴趣，对这部作品做进一步的研究。

关键词：多丽丝·莱辛；《野草在歌唱》；生态主义

Abstract

Doris Lessing is one of the most distinguished British female writers in the 20th century. The Grass is Singing, published in 1950, is Lessing’s first novel. In this novel, Doris Lessing criticizes the behavior of white colonists to destroy the ecological harmony through the description of the cruelly realistic life in the Africa colonies, and reveals the distorted and alienated human nature under the weight of money worship.

This thesis analyzes The Grass is Singing from the perspective of ecologism. It elaborates the crises of natural ecology, social ecology and spiritual ecology in the novel. By using some persuasive instances, the paper shows the different ecological conflicts between human, nature and the spiritual world. Furthermore, it reveals Lessing’s humanistic concern to human existence. 

This thesis analyses various ecological crises from the perspective of ecologism and it also helps the reader have a better understanding of the work. Meanwhile, it is hoped that this thesis will arouse more students’ and scholars’ interest to carry on the study of the novel.

Keywords: Doris Lessing; The Grass is Singing; ecologism

Contents

I. Introduction 1

II. The Crises of Natural Ecology in The Grass is Singing 3

2.1 The Over Exploitation of Land 3

2.2 The Climate Anomalies 5

2.3 Human’s Attitudes Towards Nature 7

III. The Crises of Social Ecology in The Grass is Singing 9

3.1 The Disharmonious Spousal Relationship 9

3.2 The Disharmonious Neighborhood Relationship 10

3.3 The Disharmonious Master-servant Relationship 12

IV. The Crises of Spiritual Ecology in The Grass is Singing 14

4.1 The Lust for Money 14

4.2 The Alienated Human Nature 16

V. Conclusion 18

Bibliography 20