Years later in an interview tiha reporter from the New York World-Telegram and Sun (1963), Golding insisted that the novel’s primary purpose is to serve as a warning of man’s potential for brutality to his fellow man. He said, “I learned during World War II just how brutal people can be to each other. Not just Germans or Japanese, but everyone. I tried to point that out…Some have said that the brutality of the novel is impossible. It’s not. Look at any newspaper.”
What do you think? Do you agree with Golding's theme? Offer evidence one way or another.
I already posted so I won't expand on this, but I agree. The newspaper is full of people doing evil and wrong things and the brutality, I think, is not impossible.
ReplyDelete-Brittany Jurczyk
I definitely agree with Golding and Brittany. I think that _Lord of the Flies_ is a great example of how little good there truly is in the world. Out of the many people on the island, the only good ones were Ralph, Piggy, and Simon. Two-thirds of them died. These statistics do not look good for the rest of the world as a whole. The most common misconception about young children is that they're good when in fact, they are not. Just recently in local news, there was a story about two boys younger than us who murdered a man. Obviously, it's not all "fun and games" like the officer said. If little boys can murder in cold blood for no good reason, then what hope is there for adults? Although teenagers don't always act like it, I consider them adults. We are bombarded with violence in the media, history, and our day to day existence. Many of the boys on that island were probably less exposed than that, and they still murdered two boys! What does that mean for us? Is there a second Hitler or Stalin residing in some of us just waiting to make itself known? I think there are. There's no way we can change who people truly are. We just have to helplessly pause in this intermission of horror to see what the future will bring.
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