This paper examines the issue of ethics in Lord of the Flies (1954) by the English Postmodern writer, William Golding (1911-1993). The study is grounded on some ethical principles drawn from the ...moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). It concludes that ethics is absent in the environment where Golding’s characters evolve. This absence of ethical references mainly results from western modernity that called into question all former references that provided moral ideals. As such, Lord of Flies enacts, with much irony, the ethical void in which western modernity introduced humanity.
The eruption of two world wars marked a period of transition in which the intellectual and artistic environment underwent a drastic change. Such a gloomy era provided the inevitable situation for the ...fiction-writer to switch to new and bold fictional modes. Under such circumstances, the adoption of fantasy became one of the most interesting, satisfying and effective forms for projecting the modern novelist's vision. Fantasy can work as the most suitable board on which the fictional writer can apply his satirical vision and negate the value of our sense experiences. Indeed, Fantasy seems to be the exact mode through which writers of the genre can proceed effectively along their chosen path. As such, William Golding in his monumental work, Lord of the Flies, has tried to show a fantastic representation of Modern man's nature which leads him inevitably to savagery. Golding has created a dystopia by diminishing the adults to children to show that the modern man who denies the spiritual values is doomed to failure. Hence, in this paper tries to apply the technique of diminution, an oft-repeated technique in satirical writing, to prove that the animal side in man is the sole cause of his degradation and degeneration and if this animal side is not kept under control, the society will face injustice, repression, slavery and hatred.
Researchers into Literature and Education from Norway, Pakistan and the United Kingdom used William Golding's Lord of the Flies to explore the potential of a literary text to encourage intercultural ...dialogue, employing an innovative teaching method, Google Circles, to provide a platform for asynchronous online discussion among three cohorts of students in higher education. The authors present here the ethical and moral responses to the novel. The authors' analysis of the data explores the students' thoughts about human nature and law and order, as well as responses made by the students to moral turning points in Golding's novel. The authors report that - although the novel provided a space for students from three national contexts to debate major existential questions using the affordances of the asynchronous digital platform - the students found it difficult to distinguish between the writer, the implied author and the narrative voice.
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Thanks to the rising interest in island literary studies, there is a considerable body of research on the relationship between islands and utopia/dystopia, but the motif of food, namely, what ...characters eat on an island, has seldom been explored. Using Terry Eagleton and Frederic Jameson's theories on utopia and dystopia as an interpretive lens, and drawing upon the varied contentions regarding food and eating by Levi-Strauss, Paul Atkinson, Carol J. Adams and other theorists, this paper examines the triangular relationship of island, food, and utopia/dystopia in William Golding's Lord of the Flies. The paper argues that although this island story is generally categorized as dystopian, it blends both utopian and dystopian discourses and represents a literary endeavour to envision a 'good' utopia. This argument is supported by a detailed analysis of how the eating practices of the British schoolboys marooned on a desert island parallel their attempts to construct a desirable microcosm. By vividly depicting the boys' contrasting culinary patterns of gathering fruit and hunting pigs, Golding subverts the hierarchy built upon the opposition between the raw/vegetable and the cooked/meat and their corresponding implications of 'the barbarous' and 'the civilized.' His further depictions of the boys' cannibalism and degeneration into savages showcase his vision of human beings' universal evil, his doubt about the linear progress of Western society, and his caution about the potential disasters that might befall seemingly progressive civilization due to the fall of mankind.
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This article compares the socialist and post-socialist reception of William Golding’s classic novel Lord of the Flies (1954) in Slovenian serial publications. Taking the socio-political context into ...consideration, the reasons for the differences in responses to the novel at different periods of Slovenia’s history are addressed. Furthermore, the Slovenian reception of Lord of the Flies is compared to the contemporary reception (in both ‘mainstream’ and socialist publications) in the English-speaking world.
Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, CCEA, WJEC, WJEC Eduqas Level: GCSE (9-1) Subject: English Literature First teaching: September 2015 First exams: Summer 2017 Enable students to achieve their best grade in ...GCSE English Literature with this year-round course companion; designed to instil in-depth textual understanding as students read, analyse and revise Lord of the Flies throughout the course. This Study and Revise guide: - Increases students' knowledge of Lord of the Flies as they progress through the detailed commentary and contextual information written by experienced teachers and examiners - Develops understanding of plot, characterisation, themes and language, equipping students with a rich bank of textual examples to enhance their exam responses - Builds critical and analytical skills through challenging, thought-provoking questions that encourage students to form their own personal responses to the text - Helps students maximise their exam potential using clear explanations of the Assessment Objectives, annotated sample student answers and tips for reaching the next grade - Improves students' extended writing techniques through targeted advice on planning and structuring a successful essay - Provides opportunities for students to review their learning and identify their revision needs with knowledge-based questions at the end of each chapter.
Lord of the Flies is an anti-utopic (dystopic) novel by the English author William Golding, who wrote about how human’s primitive aspect can peep out by portraying kids whose ages vary from 5 to 12 ...on a deserted island. That kids are chosen as the characters of the novel makes it possible to observe in an empirical way the human nature in its nakedness far away from civilization and what it offers with its norms, education and social intitutions. The island, as a space, is significant for it offers a clear vision of how primitive instincts can appear when there is no outside interference. In our article, first we have made a theoretical discussion on primitive aspect of humans and then analysed how they might become savage in a setting away from civilization. In our analysis, we have found out that human nature is likely to transgress into savagery in a setting devoid of laws, moral norms and social institutions. The reason why we have chosen such a topic is directly related to a need to better understand the recent devastating violance and hatred, which ravage our world and close geography in particular.
Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” and Golding’s Lord of the Flies, published in 1924 and 1954, respectively, rst introduced the metaphor of human hunts and they depict proto-dystopian societies ...where the idea of cultural progress is questioned, for individuals devolve after nding themselves subjected to the rules of a wild environment. Movie adaptations of these literary works face the dilemma of delity because, since movies are expected to generate a signi cant income, the changes res- pond to commercial considerations, which, paradoxically, affects the reception of the film. Las obras “The Most Dangerous Game”, de Connell, y Lord of the Flies, de Golding, publicadas en 1924 y 1954, respectivamente, fueron las primeras en introducir la metáfora de las cacerías humanas. En ellas aparecen so- ciedades protodistópicas, donde la idea del progreso cultural se cuestiona, ya que los individuos retroceden evolutivamente al encontrarse sujetos a las reglas de un ambiente salvaje. Las adaptaciones cinematográ cas de estos textos enfrentan el dilema de la delidad pues, dado que se espera que las películas generen un ingreso económico significativo, los cambios responden a consideraciones comerciales que, paradójicamente, afectan la recepción del filme.
Sineklerin Tanrısı, Nobel Edebiyat Ödüllü İngiliz roman yazarı ve şair William Golding (1911-1993) tarafından yazılmış ve 1954 yılında yayımlanmıştır. Romanda, düşman ateşi sonucunda uçakları ...vurularak ıssız bir adaya düşen yaşları 6 ile 12 arasında değişen bir grup çocuğun yaşam ve umut macerası yanı sıra bu çocukların yanlarında hiçbir yetişkin olmadan adada hayatlarını devam ettirebilmeleri için kurdukları sistemler ve bu sistemlerin ne şekilde işledikleri anlatılmaktadır. Bu çalışma, Golding’in bu romanında liderlik ve güç savaşımının ne şekilde ele alındığına dair bir araştırmayı içermektedir. Bu doğrultuda ilk olarak romandaki ana karakterlere dair bir incelemeye yer verilmiş ve daha sonra liderlik ve güç konuları ele alınmıştır. Romandaki güç unsurları ve liderlik özelliklerinin incelendiği bölümleri, çalışmaya dair sonuçların yer aldığı bölüm izlemektedir. Çalışmanın sonuçları romanda denizkabuğu ve gözlüğün birer güç unsuru olarak kullanıldıklarını ve romanda serbesti tanıyan liderlikten önce demokratik daha sonra da otokratik liderlik tarzlarına geçiş yapıldığını ortaya koymaktadır.
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