Critical Analysis Of Group Minds By Doris Lessing

“Group Minds” In 1919 Doris Lessing was born in Persia, and was the daughter in a farmer family. Lessing attended a Roman Catholic convent and an all-girls high school in Rhodesia. By 1959 Lessing started writing a bunch of writings on fiction. A lot of her writing attracted the attention of scholar. One of her articles called “Group Minds”, is an article that presents the idea that we as humans are group animals and that we will never truly be an individual in the world, but her article is flawed when trying to show evidence of this. In Doris Lessing’s article she starts by talking about how people in the west are brought into this world with the idea that they are an individual. Lessing then goes on to talk about how humans aren’t individuals but instead group animals, and how if one is truly an individual they are most likely not happy being an individual. It is very rare a person is an individual and is happy with being one. Doris Lessing states, “We are group animals still, and there is nothing wrong with that. But what is dangerous is not belonging to a group, or groups, but not understanding the social laws that govern groups and govern us”. (p. 652). Lessing proceeds to talk about a psychological experiment involving people giving in to a group majority, if a person is alone in a decision …show more content…
Lessing presents strong ideas that one can really stand behind. Lessing then talks about how if people are truly an individual then they won’t be happy as an individual. Lessing is flawed in her article though when trying to show evidence of her statements. Lessing does have an attempt at some evidence in her article but her supposed “Evidence” is flawed at the fact she doesn’t talk about the full experiment but only talks about the part that backs her statement up. Lessing only states ideas but doesn’t show good evidence of her