As a famous English contemporary women writer, Doris Lessing always puts her attention on the female characters that live in South Africa. Their lives are pathetic and sad. This thesis tries to analyze one of Lessing's short stories— Winter in July from Lacan's three Orders approach. Lessing is a feminist, but the deeper description of the desire and struggle in men's inner world in her works is also remarkable.
Being one of the greatest 20thcentury writers,William Faulkner created many novels which were given high appraisal and remained popular up to today.The broad themes which are covered in Faulkner’s novels cannot be neglected,including the racial and religious belief in American society,the fading of the traditional Southern value and the corrosive influence of the rapid industrialization over the human being.Among these important themes,Faulkner also paid enough attention to the theme about how the individual can achieve his or her own identity.In the light of Lacan’s theory of Three Orders,this paper tries to evaluate Faulkner’s discussion over the formation of individual’s identity with Gail Hightower as the example.
Toni Morrison is one of the most distinguished writers both in the USA and the whole world.The backgrounds of A Mercy and Beloved are different,but both of them show readers the same ethical conception of the writer.The black women in Morrison’s novels are suffering the pains,and their actions reflect the deviation and abdication of ethics.Morrison tries to ask her readers what on earth love,sacrifice and responsibility mean to the growth of black women.This thesis will discuss Morrison’s A Mercy and Beloved from the three aspects of ethics:survival ethics,family ethics and interpersonal ethics.
