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A bunch of boys are stranded on an island within the allegorical novel. The identify, William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, a part of Chelsea apartment Publishers’ sleek severe Interpretations sequence, offers crucial 20th-century feedback on William Golding’s Lord of the Flies via extracts of serious essays through recognized literary critics. This number of feedback additionally incorporates a brief biography on William Golding, a chronology of the author’s lifestyles, and an introductory essay written by means of Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the arts, Yale college.
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Boyd there ghosts, Piggy? ” “ ’Cos things wouldn’t make sense. ” ’ (p. 101). But the horrible truth is that man’s organised civilisation and sophisticated systems of communication have failed to work, have been destroyed or have broken down in the nightmare of nuclear war. Civilised values are endorsed by the novel—it is heartbreaking to see how friendship and fair-play are replaced by hostility and tyranny—but our actual civilisations are condemned as barbaric and monstrously destructive. Ralph and Jack, chiefs of rival gangs or tribes on the island, are ‘two continents of experience and feeling, unable to communicate’ (p.
The tragic universe of King Lear is at its darkest in Gloucester’s terrible words: we live in a cruel world which can only be governed by malevolent demons whose delight is to torture us; if we wish to see an image of these dark gods or devils we need look no further than children or our own childhood, need only examine ‘the ghastly and ferocious play of children’ (FF p. 150), where we see how little devils torture and kill insects for fun, playing god with flies. 1 King Lear is not everywhere so hopeless in outlook but it does seem to force us to accept that nature provides no evidence of beneficent paternal care for us and that in our human nature there is a terrifying propensity towards wanton cruelty which is evident even in children.
Show, the keeping-up of a good appearance, is what this ultra-English officer is all about. The white uniform, the gold buttons, the ‘trim cruiser’ of the closing sentence are all signs of the officer’s belief in orderliness, cleanliness, and of his and his nation’s belief in their moral rectitude. The officer’s first, and apparently kindly, thought about Ralph is that he ‘needed a bath, a hair-cut, a The Nature of the Beast: Lord of the Flies 37 nose-wipe and a good deal of ointment’ (pp. 221–3).