Unnatural World—the Study of Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five from the Perspective of Unnatural Narrative
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Abstract.As one of the most outstanding contemporary novelists, Doris Lessing, a famous British female writer, won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. Doris Lessing’s new work Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five has been studied at home and abroad mainly in the aspects of feminism and Sufism in the work. Based on the unnatural narrative theory of post-classical narratologists Jan Albert and Brian Richardson, this paper analyzes the unnatural narrative factors in the stories from three aspects: unnatural space, unnatural role and unnatural behavior. The unnatural of the novel is to prove the unnatural nature of the world in the novel from three aspects: impossible story space, story role and characters’ behavior, and analyze the author's intention behind these unnatural factors -- the world is an interconnected whole, and the progress of human civilization requires people of all countries to be open-minded, inclusive, communicate with each other and learn from each other, in order to jointly promote the overall progress and prosperity of world civilization.
Keywords.
Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five, unnatural narrative, unnatural space, unnatural behavior, unnatural roles.
APA Citation
Huifang Tang, Xianqi Liao (2024). Unnatural World—the Study of Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five from the Perspective of Unnatural Narrative. Frontiers in Humanities and Social Sciences, 4(5), 11-17. https://doi.org/10.54691/11k57z22
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