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- W135300854 abstract "Doris Lessing's insistence on the importance of self-knowledge shapes all her novels. Her first novel, Grass Is Singing (1950), records Mary Turner's failure to understand herself, a failure which leads her into an unwise marriage and an impossible situation with the blacks who work on the Turner farm. Mary's inability to adequately assess her own attitudes leads to her destruction; because she cannot come to terms with what she is, her death is as much a suicide as it is a murder. Retreat to Innocence (1956) shows young Julia Barr in a situa? tion which urges self-examination and personal growth, but Julia retreats from the opportunity, and chooses the easier path of following social convention. Like Mary Turner, she illustrates the negative results of the failure to explore herself. In contrast, Anna Wulf in Golden Note book (1962) and Martha Quest in the Children of Violence series (1952 1969) are women whose lives are devoted to self-understanding; their quest is to know themselves and thereby to know their relationship to the world. Lessing is often labeled a feminist, or a writer about the racial question, or an ex-Communist political enthusiast, or most recently as an inner-space cultist with apocalyptic visions. Rather than fitting any one of these labels, Lessing absorbs them all under the unifying theme of the search for self-identity: through knowledge of the self one also dis? covers one's role in society. Gabriel Marcel, in Philosophy of Existentialism, is only one of many who have pointed out that modern man has lost the awareness of the sense of the ontological, the sense of being. He says, The individual tends to appear both to himself and to others as an agglomeration of functions.1 What, then, can be the inward reality of one who appears as a multiple of roles, even to himself? It is perhaps impossible to define adequately the self, the integrated self, being, but the terms do convey some meaning, enough to be useful in describing the search undertaken [252]" @default.
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- W135300854 title "THE SEARCH FOR SELF IN THE NOVELS OF DORIS LESSING" @default.
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