Abstract The Grass is Singing is Doris Lessing’s first novel. It is a story about the murder of the poor white woman Mary by her black houseboy Moses against the backdrop of South Africa. It is a portrait of the woman’s marriage to the luckless farmer Dick, a union doomed to failure even before they meet. And the country in which they live - South Africa - also catalyzes their tragedy. Domestic and overseas scholars have made amounts of researches on this novel. Most of them mainly focus on image and symbolism, ecological feminism, post-colonialism, psychoanalysis, and patriarchy in the novel. Their criticism about patriarchy usually describes Mary as a victim and attributes patriarchy to Mary’s tragedy. The evidence they give is not complete. At the same time, they ignore the fact that Mary is also the conspirator of patriarchy and she plays an important part in her own tragedy. The paper analyzes Mary from the perspective of patriarchy and discusses her as a victim as well as conspirator of patriarchy.47977

Keywords: The Grass is Singing; Mary; patriarchy; victim; conspirator

父权主义的受害者与共谋者——《野草在歌唱》中玛丽的分析

摘要《野草在歌唱》是多丽丝.莱幸第一部经典小说，故事发生在南美，它讲述的是一个白人女性玛丽被她的黑人仆人摩西谋杀的故事。它刻画了一个女人嫁给了一个不幸的农场主迪克，他们的结合在他们相遇之前就注定惨淡收场。他们所在的时代和地点也造成了他们的悲剧。许多国内国外的学者对这篇经典小说做了许多研究，他们主要集中在意象与象征、女性生态主义、后殖民主义、心理学和男权主义等。部分有关男权主义的研究主要将玛丽作为主义的受害者，并极尽他们之能去批判父权主义，在论据不完善的同时，他们忽略了一个方面，玛丽也是父权主义的共谋者，她对自己的悲剧也起着不可忽视的作用。本论文将会集中以父权主义视角去分析玛丽这个人物，证明她既是父权主义的受害者也是父权主义的共谋者。

毕业论文关键词：野草在歌唱；玛丽；男权主义；受害者；共谋者

Contents

1. Introduction 1

1.1 Researches both at Home and Abroad 1

1.2 Studies from Perspective of Patriarchy Combined with Eco-feminism 1

1.2.1 The Conflict between Human and Nature under Patriarchy System 2

1.2.2 The Conflict between Men and Women under Patriarchy System 2

1.2.3 The Conflict between Women and Nature under Patriarchy System 2

1.3 Research Tendency 2

2. Patriarchy 3

2.1 The Definition of Patriarchy 3

2.2 The Theory of Patriarchy 3

3. Mary’s Life under Patriarchy System 4

3.1 Mary’s Childhood 4

3.2 Wrong Marriage with Dick 4

3.3 Failure of Resistance 5

3.3.1 Failure of Runaway 5

3.3.2 Refusal of Dick 6

4. Mary is Conspirator of Patriarchy 7

4.1 Her Unwillingness to Help Dick 7

4.2 Her Obedience to Her Own Role 7

4.3 Mary’s Keeping Away From Others Deliberately 7

4.4 Mary and Moses