Doris Lessing

help someone become stronger and learn many things. In the short story, “Through the Tunnel”, Doris Lessing established the main character to make him seem super innocent, therefore he seems naïve to life. She also uses lots of symbolism to give the story another layer of meaning. Lessing uses symbolism and characterization for the purpose of showing how kids can mature through difficult obstacles. Lessing uses characterization to show how kids can mature through difficult obstacles. An example…

Throughout the history of human development, there are many different theories which discuss how nature or nurture aspects have strongly influenced the development of human personality. Human personality could be formed primarily either by certain characteristics or traits that they are inherited from family members, which is defined as nature or they are influenced by other environmental or social factors outside them, which is defined as nurture. The impacts of nature and nurture on the human…

Margaret Atwood’s ‘Spotty-Handed Villainesses’ and Doris Lessing’s ‘On Not Winning the Nobel Prize’ are both valued speeches due to the fact they evoke a personal response in their intended audiences and offer insights into timeless issues. These issues are timeless because they do not have a clear answer and will remain a controversial topic that is relevant across time. The ideas offered by these speeches resonate beyond the contextual audience and hold value for a twenty first century…

1943 and 1944." Martha Quest, now divorced from her husband, joins the communists and marries its leader, who is a German refugee. There are obvious parallels with Doris Lessing's own life, because after she divorced her first husband, she joined the Left Book Club in 1943. It was here that she met her future second husband, Gottfried Lessing, a refugee from Germany. The novel is an attempt to portray the psychology of the group organized against society, the psychology of the individual in an…

Beverage uses the observation of an animal, a giraffe in Domesticity of Giraffes and a spider in The Orb Spider and uses this as an inspiration to comment on the beauty and order of the natural world and the result of interfering with this balance. Doris Lessing explores the conflicting feelings about the transition from childhood to adulthood, taking a moment in a young boy’s life for her symbolic short story Through the Tunnel. Using a variety of techniques, both composers construct powerful…

different socioeconomic statuses. Often times, those from the lower levels of the social pyramid are constantly challenged by economic difficulties, which also pose negative impact on their mental health. Mary Turner from The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing represents a person who is shouldering the burdens of socioeconomic depression. The character, who grew up in an abusive household, left home…

Doris Lessing once said, “…Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.” In saying this, Lessing brings to light the idea that the education system in this country has been economically incentivized and, in the process, it has stripped adolescents of their creativity and sense of self. Indubitably, college atmospheres have been known to foster rebellion in its students.…

the house after playing outside on his scooter and held his fists to his eyes and screamed, “Snake!” Mrs. Farquar was just as frightened as Teddy was, but it was obvious that Gideon knew what to do: “Wait a minute, missus, I’ll get some medicine” (Lessing 151). Gideon raced back into the kitchen and began chewing up a leaf he had brought back from a bush. He grabbed Teddy and began spitting into his eyes as he simultaneously pressed his thumbs into his swollen eyes. He released Teddy and assured…

Most people in high school get pressured to do stuff they don 't want to do. Whether it 's skipping class or helping a friend cheat on a test. When someone gets pressured they do not think clearly because, either they don 't want to be in the situation of their afraid to say no. When my sister was asking me to skip I was afraid to say no because she would 've made it a big deal. Many of the essays that we have read relate to what happened to me or have the same concept. In high school my…

a problem with his situation. A snake spits venom into Teddy’s eyes and he cures it for him. Because he does this, a scientist doubts Gideon’s actions and says that it is witchcraft. Gideon needed to know that man was his enemy. On page 1333, Doris Lessing writes: “The story eventually reached town; and perhaps it was at a sundowner party, or some such function, that a doctor, who happened to be there, challenged it, “Nonsense,” he said.” Gideon’s answer to this question was to know who his…