other peers are crucial for the development of a mature morality" (Juvonen 11). So when reading Doris Lessings Group Minds‚ she also touched on how we as people begin to interact or change a lot when dealing with a group instead of ourselves individually. Lessing said‚ “When we ’re in a group we tend to think as that group does: we may even have joined the group to find “like minded people” (Lessing 725). So when a child goes to school at a young age we come in with our own identity until we meet a
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The children of these women had hopes that they could aspire to have dreams that went beyond motherhood (Ireland 3). Guidelines for the female’s place in society and in the home were prominent even throughout the 1960’s. In To Room Nineteen‚ Lessing challenges the conservative social ideals of the 1960’s by telling Susan’s story of lost identity. Susan has everything she should to want according to societal ideals. She has a husband who has a good job‚ a house in the suburbs of London‚ and
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D.H.S.S. by Doris Lessing. Some of the issues Doris Lessing deal with in her novel ‘D.H.S.S.’ are Social security‚ poverty‚ inequality and social classes. The setting is in Britain in the 1980s‚ during the conservative government‚ where the strikes had their big run. Everything is very sensible and it is hard for people living in this time to make a living and feet their families. Also the D.H.S.S. is on a strike and it affects a lot of people who is depending on them‚ this strike is happening
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THE DEFEATED By: Nadine Gordimer * First Published : 1952 * Type of Plot : Social realism * Time of Work : The 1920’s to 1940’s * Setting : Cape Town‚ South Africa * Characters : The narrator‚ Miriam Saiyetovitz‚ Mr. and Mrs. Saiyetovitz * Genres : Social realism‚ Short fiction * Locales : Africa‚ South Africa‚ Cape Town * Subjects : Suffering Friendship Jews or Jewish life Mines‚ miners‚ or mining South Africa or South Africans
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several prizes and awards: the P. E. N. Asian Poetry Prize‚ Kerala Sahitya Academy Award for fiction‚ Asian World Prize for literature‚ Kendra Sahitya Academy Award etc. She was short listed for the Nobel Prize along with Marguerite Yourcenar‚ Doris Lessing and Nadine Gordimer. Her poetical collection includes: Summer in Calcutta (1965)‚ The Descendants (1967)‚ The Old Playhouse and Other Poems (1973)‚ Collected Poems I (1984)‚ The Best of Kamala Das (1991) and Only the Soul Knows How to Sing (1996)
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Through the Tunnel by Doris Lessing The narrative constructs an eleven-year old English boy‚ Jerry‚ who is on holiday with his mother in the South of France. He encounters a group of older‚ native African-French boys swimming along the beach. When they disappeared by swimming through an underwater passageway to the other side of a large rock in the ocean‚ he feels left out and rejected. Jerry makes it his goal to swim through the passageway to prove to the older boys his manhood‚ even if it meant
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exchange-taken my youth. In this quote Sara Teas suggest that when child-like excitement goes away‚ your intellectual capacity has grown‚ and you see things more realistically‚ that’s when you have matured. In the stories Through the Tunnel by Doris Lessing and Shaving by Leslie Norris the authors suggest that growing in age had=s nothing to do with maturing. They show that maturing comes by developing certain qualities or going through certain experiences. “In order to mature you must realize that
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Eng 101 Professor Keefe 5 December 2012 Authority in the Heart of Jim Jones Many theories and questions are raised from the problem of obedience to authority. What can make another person be obedient to another? Why do some people obey others when they know what they’re doing is wrong? This is a problem for the human population and it demands reasoning‚ explanation‚ and examination. We must reflect on what many experts have examined in the field‚ and draw some conclusions. There are many experts
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The Female Tradition A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing by Elaine Showalter Review by: Ruth Yeazell NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction‚ Vol. 11‚ No. 3 (Spring‚ 1978)‚ pp. 281-285 Published by: Duke University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1344968 . Accessed: 15/02/2015 09:17 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit
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Cry‚ the Beloved Country is a social protest against the structures of the society that would later give rise to apartheid. Paton attempts to create an unbiased and objective view of the oppositions. This requires that he depicts the Whites as affected by ’native crime’‚ while the Blacks suffer from social instability and moral issues due to the breakdown of the tribal system. It shows many of the problems with South Africa such as the degrading of the land reserved for the natives‚ which is sometimes
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