[转载]A Woman on a Roof
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这是我们学校的一位学姐对屋顶丽人写的一篇论文 感觉很好 就转载下咯
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The Manifestations of Men’s Desire to Control
Doris lessing is one of the most important English writers
along with America’s Mary Mccarty and France’ Simon de Beauvior.
She is one of that extraordinary company of women whose strong
insight into the nature of intellectual life today command
international interest and admiration. Her Golden Notebook is her
masterpiece, involving the contradiction of class, discrimination
of sex and politics. And A Woman on A Roof is not on her list, but
it is a refined piece to read. The story happened in London where a
woman wore a red scarf tied around her breasts and brief red bikini
pants on the roof to have a sunbath. And three men on the roof were
seduced. They tried any method to draw woman’s attention, but woman
responded indifferently and coolly. That made angry and
anguish1.
This anger and agony come from a deep desire of control to women
when it suffers the destruction of “eternal woman”2—the
refusal from the roof woman. “Eternal woman” literally satisfies
the men’s desire of control, such as possession, conquest, reign,
etc. In the texture, the desire of control is represented in three
manifestations.
The first manifestation exists in men’s charm to fascinate
women. The novel uses the common words to describe the life of
common people, to reflect their common behavior and to express
their common interest in beautiful woman. Shu Benhua once said: the
beauty of women exists in men’s sexual impulse. In the texture, the
Roof woman, with black hair, a flushed solid back, wore a red scarf
tied around her breasts and brief red bikini and arms spread out.
She is God’s precious named Pandora sent by the God to spread the
misery and disease to men in the Greek legend. Three men are indeed
tempted by this stunner, only the whistle appearing 7 times in the
texture, especially Stanley. His whistle or yells or stamping or
swearing never gains the active response from woman. At last his
reaction to the woman’s indifference is from “adding a jest” to
really angry and going home, his whistles from “wolf whistle” to
provocation. Woman’s remote and cool eyesight injury his
self-esteem that he was confident at his appearance and assured no
woman could resist his charm. His irritation really reveals that
under the condition of male worship and social preference, men’s
proper pride increases rapidly. In this sense, they take it for
granted that they can handle all the situations. But the
surrounding has changed. Women said NO. When refused by the roof
woman, he turned to flirt with Mrs.Pritchett who helped him
recovered his pride again. Then look at Harry, an old man, always
smiled tolerantly to Stanley as if he experienced the same case.
His indulgence shows his dread about pass of youth, uncontrollable
present and uncertain future. In that case, he wants from Stanley
to review his past. Although he didn’t whistle, he still wants to
get something from the roof woman, a power of youth. May he dream
to live in Arab where the two genders are forbid to mingle and
women always obey to men? And once Nietzsche cried loud: if
you go to a woman, take your whip!3 Maybe he wants to
regain his vigor from indulgence to Stanley!
The second one lies in ruling role in their life.
There are four kind women around a man: wife, lover, mother and
daughter. Those women all belong to “eternal women”. In his all
life, he has an urge to take the ruling role over four kind women.
To his wife, he is the heaven, the God; to the lover, he is a rod
for vine; to his mother, he is a son and reliance; to the daughter,
he is the high mountain. There is a cluster of dialogue from
texture to visualize the abstract saying.
To the roof woman
At first sight, “she’s stark naked”, Stanley said annoyed and
whistled.
“Bitch!” “If she was my wife.”
“ I bet her old man has put his feet down”. After he suffered
Waterloo from the roof woman.
To his wife
“What about your missus?”---Harry
“What about my missus?”----Stanley, preserving his
independence.
“Christ,” said Stanley virtuously, “if my wife lay about like
that, for everyone to see, I’d soon stop her.”
“Not a chance, not on our roof.” the soft of his wife made
Stanley insist firmly.
To Mrs. Pritchett, he teased lady in badinage.
In his mind, there is a clear principle to distinguish the
women,⑴wife---his possession, must stay at home,. If necessary, he
will package and store her;⑵the roof woman and
Mrs.Pritchett---young ladies, the object of entertainment;⑶Lady
Godiva like mother. So he thought the birth of women relying on
needs of men. Woman must cater for men’s needs in the certain
period. In the Bible, Eve is the rib from Adam, and ST.Thomas
continued to declare that women were a kind of men with defects.
Then Mr Branda affirmed: men can recognize himself independently,
but women cannot. Stanley thought in his world he was the Kind, so
his words were the command. But the refusal of the roof woman
really astonished him. However, that can’t make him sense his
ruling position had declined. He just turned to his wife or Lady
Godive or Mrs. Pritichett to seek the comfort.
The third one is the strong desire of monopolizing a
woman.
“ Tom’s report was that she hadn’t moved, but it was a lie.
He wanted to keep what he had seen to himself. She looked at them
gravely, then went to the part of the roof where she was hidden
from them: Tom was pleased. He felt she was more his when the other
men couldn’t see her.”
From above, Tom’s monopolization has two sides. One is
to the roof woman who is his “doll”, and the other is to men. He is
reluctant to share his “doll” with others. Tom is a half-man boy,
not mature in psychological. His love, in his mind, is romantic,
and will bring the woman boundless enjoyment. As a mater of fact,
his pappy love is based on his conceitedness, illusion and
daydream. Finally his dream ended with hatred of her. The result is
God’s fixed. But who will be fixed? Tom, the roof woman or the
public? The reason of his love’s corruption is that he initiated
his pursuit on the possession and conquest. At meanwhile, the
desire of romantic love is strong. “Last night he had thought of
the unknown woman before he slept, and she had been tender with
him.” But he didn’t concerned about the others’ feeling. Therefore,
his love to others is a burden and in fact, he never really pursued
the roof woman, never knew about the woman. “unknown woman” is just
his prey, his goal to prove that he was a mature man like Stanley
to draw women’s attention.
At last but not least. According to three manifestations of
desire to control, the charming attraction, ruling role and
possession alone, the novel successfully guides the light
literature into a height of humanity cognition, making the desire
diversified.
