The Golden Notebook
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All Themes Fragmentation, Breakdown, and Unity Gender, Labor, and Power Love and Sex Communism and Disillusionment Action, Freedom, and Moral Courage Fact, Fiction, and Authorship
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All Characters Anna Wulf Janet Wulf Molly Jacobs Tommy Richard Portmain Marion Mrs Marks / Mother Sugar Willi Rodde Paul Blackenhurst Jimmy McGrath Ted Brown Maryrose George Hounslow Michael Saul Green Nelson Ella Julia Max Wulf George Dr West Patricia Brent Paul Tanner Ella’s Father Robert Brun Cy Maitland Jack Ivor Ronnie James Schafter De Silva Tom Mathlong Charlie Themba Mrs Boothby Jackson / The Cook Marie Comrade John Butte Stanley Lett
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All Terms Ceylon Nyasaland Veld Kopje McCarthyism The Rosenbergs Joseph Stalin National Service Conscientious Objector Quemoy The Kremlin Leucotomy Trotskyism Chekhov’s “The Darling” Soho F.L.N.
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The Golden Notebook

by

Doris Lessing

Conscientious Objector Term Analysis

Someone who refuses to join or continue participating in military service because of political, religious, or moral opposition.
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