In The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing explores the main character’s identity crisis. Women place in a male-dominated society, their relation to men and children. Women frequent attempts to escape from the social and political oppression. It is Doris Lessing’s life experience that leads her to gather all these issues in her autobiographical fictional works. However, the main focus is on Anna Wulf who has a personal, artistic and social breakdown. Out of fear of anarchy and chaos, Anna keeps four notebooks that record every phase in her life. The black notebook is dedicated to her life in central Africa. The red notebook is dedicated to her experience in the British Communist Party and her thoughts concerning the current political situations in England. The yellow notebook records Anna’s life as a writer and also about Ella (her alter-ego) the protagonist of the novel entitled The Shadow of the Third. The blue notebook records Anna’s dreams as a personal diary which kept factual account of her life and her quest for identity as a women writer. Before the final Free Women section is the Golden Notebook considered a successful self-healing from the fragmentation and the blocked creativity to which Anna has been exposed. The Golden Notebook is a story of a female writer who experiences alienation as well as fragmentation in a disintegrated world with consciousness. Anna is represented as being subjected to physical as well as psychological exile.
