在殖民地中被殖民者的心靈狀態一直都是第三世界文學的重要探討對象。本碩士論文即以小說的主角畢斯華斯先生為出發點，探討其一生被破碎的殖民性格。他的房子乃是他終得獨立的象徵。畢斯華斯先生和其家人皆為殖民現實的受害者，其表徵包括對環境的陌生，生活中之徒勞，威權的更替，社會仿慕風氣和自我身份危機。房子的成功乃出於其堅毅的意志。透過霍米巴巴的模仿與文化翻譯理論和恩古吉‧瓦‧提昂戈的語言與自我定義理論，本碩士論文分析出現在小說中的各種主題，即：「對獨立的希望」，「環境的陌生」，「生活中之徒勞」，「身份危機」，「威權的更替」和「仿慕文化」。本論文從小說中出現之修辭與印象來探討六十三個場景。由於小說中有強烈的地域觀，可從主角住處的物品，住處的感受來理解其所表徵的主題。奈波爾的殖民生活觀點乃是一場維護存在感的艱辛旅程。本論文乃以主題來研究認同危機中被殖民者的主體性。

The spiritual state of the colonial people was always an important subject matter in the third-world literature. This MA thesis is centered upon Mr. Biswas, the novel's protagonist whose life is a broken colonial subject, filled with instances of postcolonial identities. His house is given as a symbol of his independent life. Along with fear and humiliation, Mr. Biswas and his family suffers colonization, alienation, futility, identity crisis, ambivalence of authority and social mimicry. His final success in the house is highly dependent on his strong will. Using Homi Bhabha's theory of mimicry and cultural ambivalence and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's theory of language and self-definition, this MA thesis aims to analyze the themes in the novel: "the hope of independence", "alienation", "futility", "identity", "ambivalence", and "mimicry". There are over a hundred scenes in the novel, each based on the rhetorical and imagery parts of the action. The novel underlines the assertion that location brings identity; that the representation of themes will be focused on the items about his dwelling, his thoughts and feelings on the houses that he stayed. Naipaul's treatment of the colonial life is a harsh journey of existence. In this thesis, themes are discussed in order to gain a clearer view on the subjectivity of the colonial spiritual condition in the identity crisis.

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