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Monday, May 31, 2010
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Golding has referred to himself as a pessimist intellectually and emotionally an optimist. Discuss _Lord of the Flies_ in light of this.
This quote of Golding's is very believable and similar to the way that I would feel after composing a novel such as _Lord of the Flies_. Golding knows that within all men there is a Lord of the Flies/Beelzebub. Golding also feels that man's chances of destroying himself are about one to one. So even though Golding intellectually believes that man is naturally evil and will eventually destroy itself he cannot bare to emotionally accept the fact that man could do such terrible things.
Lord of the Flies was Golding expressing his intellectual view on man's natural evil and instability. In chapter one "The Sound of the Shell" Piggy and Ralph find each other after the plane crash and begin to evaluate their situation and at one point piggy says to Ralph, "Aren't there any grownups at all?" Ralph replied "I don't think so." Then Ralph begins to think and then randomly he begins to laugh and then stands on his head and with a big smile he says to piggy "No grownups!" So without any grownups ( authority) Golding is showing that the boys (General Population) will eventually get rid of all intelligence, logic, (Piggy)and order (the Conch) and will cave within themselves and become uncivilized savages. Golding's theory on the original state of man is sad and hard to cope with but in the end I would agree with everything that Goldman has described. The boys/savages in Lord of the Flies are a warning of what will be the result of an anarchist society with no civilization or order. So we all as citizens of the world must remember to never forget our inner Piggy and Ralph; because the day that we do forget our logic, intelligence, and good is the day that we will sink into the depths of darkness and savagery.
This quote of Golding's is very believable and similar to the way that I would feel after composing a novel such as _Lord of the Flies_. Golding knows that within all men there is a Lord of the Flies/Beelzebub. Golding also feels that man's chances of destroying himself are about one to one. So even though Golding intellectually believes that man is naturally evil and will eventually destroy itself he cannot bare to emotionally accept the fact that man could do such terrible things.
ReplyDeleteLord of the Flies was Golding expressing his intellectual view on man's natural evil and instability. In chapter one "The Sound of the Shell" Piggy and Ralph find each other after the plane crash and begin to evaluate their situation and at one point piggy says to Ralph,
"Aren't there any grownups at all?"
Ralph replied
"I don't think so."
Then Ralph begins to think and then randomly he begins to laugh and then stands on his head and with a big smile he says to piggy
"No grownups!"
So without any grownups ( authority) Golding is showing that the boys (General Population) will eventually get rid of all intelligence, logic, (Piggy)and order (the Conch) and will cave within themselves and become uncivilized savages. Golding's theory on the original state of man is sad and hard to cope with but in the end I would agree with everything that Goldman has described. The boys/savages in Lord of the Flies are a warning of what will be the result of an anarchist society with no civilization or order. So we all as citizens of the world must remember to never forget our inner Piggy and Ralph; because the day that we do forget our logic, intelligence, and good is the day that we will sink into the depths of darkness and savagery.
By Bob Laing AKA Crystal Hedgehog
ReplyDeleteSee, THIS time I know who Crystal Hedgehog is.:-)
ReplyDelete~Mrs. Stoller