The Good Terrorist (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Doris Lessing
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The 1970’s
- Setting: London, England
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Social action, 1970’s, Class conflict, Communism or communists, Politics, Revolutionaries, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Suicide, Crime or criminals, Murder or homicide, Revolutions, Protests or demonstrations, Emotions, Violence, Women’s issues, Working class, London, Conformity, Bombs, Terrorism or terrorists, Homemakers
- Locales: London, England
Characters Discussed
Alice Mellings, a would-be terrorist. Although she is in her mid-thirties, she looks like either an overgrown child or a plain woman of fifty. Described as “pudgy” and “clumsy,” Alice is a self- effacing woman who relishes being subservient to others. A college graduate and a product of a middle-class family, she shuns her former world, turning to her mother and old friends only for financial assistance. She has been a political agitator for about fifteen years. Directionless herself, she takes pleasure in organizing other people’s lives,...
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