A Study on Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook

Abstract

The paper intends to analyze the detail study of Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook. The
novel begins and ends with section which deals with freewoman sections. We come to know that
the four notebooks were written for this free woman. The first note book describes about the racial
situation in central Africa during World War II. And it also signifies the nostalgic memories that the
Anna of the 1957 does not want to meet and shake hands with the Anna of 1950’s. The second
notebook is the ‘Red’. This contains Anna’s political activities in London. The third notebook is
titled as ‘Yellow’. This note book contains the manuscript of the novel’s shadow of the third which
Anna writes about Ella .The fourth note book named ‘Blue’ presents Anna’s personal diary. Anna’s
writing analyzes the frustrations of being a freewoman in dominated society. The Golden Note Book
can be considered as an attempt to expose the emotion of a woman who chooses to be “free”.