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HOW TO ANALYZE A NOVEL (elements) - Coggle Diagram
HOW TO ANALYZE A NOVEL
(elements)
Setting
What aspects make up the setting?
The beach, the castle rock, the mountain and the forest.
Study the time period which is also part of the setting
The context of England was the destruction, the masive dieds and concern of the population for the new needs that they began to have.
When was the story written
It was written in England after the World War II
Theme
Main theme in the story
The dominant theme in Lord of the Flies is the conflict between the human drive toward savagery and the rules of civilization that are designed to contain and minimize it.
Other themes
Civilization Vs. Savagery
Loss Of Innocence
Human nature
The nature of evil
The weak and the strong
The negative consequences of war
Spirituality and religion
Absence of social norms
Deshumanitation of relationships
Plot and structure
What are the most important events?
The boys kill Simon at Jack’s feast in a frenzy.
Jack and his tribe try to hunt Ralph the next morning; they set the whole island ablaze.
Samneric discover a beast, which is actually just a dead pilot in a parachute.
Ralph and Jack fight; Roger rolls a boulder that kills Piggy and shatters the conch.
British schoolboys’ plane crashes on a desert island with no adult supervision.
Structure
The structure is chronological , where events are revealed to the reader in the order in which they have happened. The book is divided into 12 chapters, the titles of which summarise key events in the plot.
Turning Point
Is when the boys begin to give up on these vestiges of society, preferring instead to give in to their impulses and baser natures.
Climax
When the fragile order that the boys are struggling to maintain is symbolically broken. This happens when Simon is murdered by the other boys. The climax begins with Simon understanding what "the beast" truly is.
Style
William Golding was born on 19 September 1911.
He uses symbolism in his novel "Lord of the Flies".
Conflict
It's the heart of the novel.
Types
the individual vs nature.
the individual vs the individual.
the individual vs the society.
the individual vs self.
The innocence vs savagery.
Rhetorical devices
It's a technical vocabulary that helps an author achieve a particular purpose.
Golding uses personification, symbols, metaphors and irony, to project the theme that the pure and realistic people in the world can be ignored and destroyed by evil.
SYMBOL:
Golding uses the conch shell as a symbol of order and civilisation on the boys' island.
PERSONIFICATION:
Colors drained from water and trees and pink surfaces of rock, and the white and brown clouds brooded
METAPHOR:
Piggy's slows metaphorically represent the sanity of society and its civilisation that can turn into savagery if this breaks down.
Characterization
Piggy:
represents the reason and sanity of society.
An overweight, intellectual, and talkative boy
is the brains behind many of Ralph’s successful ideas and innovations
He believes in rules, timeliness, and order, and as the island descends into brutal chaos
His death suggests that intellectualism is vulnerable to brutality.
Simon:
represents innocence and spiritual strangeness.
Physical frailty (manifested in his fainting spells), shy and constantly worrying
He behaves kindly toward the younger boys and is willing to work for the good of their community
The only character whose sense of morality does not seem to have been imposed by society
His brutal murder at the hands of the other boys indicates the scarcity of that good amid an overwhelming abundance of evil.
Ralph: **represents democracy and civilisation.
He's unable to understand the instincts of bloodlust and barbarism, yet in the end, he understands that the evil that exists within him, as within all human beings
The athletic and charismatic protagonist
His good looks and physical competence makes him a natural leader
His commitment to civilization and morality is strong,
Jack:
represents human evil, savagery and death
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Young blond man, very arrogant, with a pessimistic attitude and exaggeratedly spoiled by his family.
At the beginning of the novel he does not prove to be violent, but is later seen when he expresses his desire to kill a pig
He's the novel’s primary representative of the instinct of savagery, violence, and the desire for power
He has learned to use the boys’ fear of the beast to control their behavior—a reminder of how religion and superstition can be manipulated as instruments of power.