The idea of colonization and its enveloped evils has been a critical and crucial point of attrition for Lessing and has also influenced her contemporaries like Gordimer, Munro and Woolf(Bukhari, 2019). These linking’s justifies the fact that Lessing was more intoned with the prevalent sentiment of her generation and her time. Lessing was also quoted once saying, “ It is by the failures and misfits of a civilization that one can best judge its weaknesses”. The poem has been marked for its critical tone towards the achievements and current condition of western society as a whole. The title of the novel “The Grass is singing” has been taken from TS Eliot’s “The Wasteland”. There are other supportive characters scattered throughout this novel, although most of them serve some form of narrative function.

There is Moses, who is the ultimate murdered of Mary.

There is Dick Turner, the husband of Mary and the owner of the farm. Although the death of Mary Turner bookends both the beginning and the end of this novel, she is not the only important character. The story is situated in the geographical location of Rhodesia, which is a part of the Union of South Africa. The plot of the novel is a chapter wise recounting of the murder of Mary Turner published in a newspaper report article and ends with the recounting of all the events which led to the actual event of the murder.

It is due to the fact that the timeframe and the thematic alignment of this novel are linked more with the social norms than any other works of Lessing, and this explains the level of depth out of a universal story of rebels and oppressors, intimacy and hatred. The thesis statement which is to guide this essay in the task of analyzing one of the most beloved and revered female novelist Doris Lessing is “The role reversal of race and gender in a story of power dynamics”. TOPIC:: “The role reversal of race and gender in a story of power dynamics.” Introduction

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