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WILLIAM GOLDING: LORD OF THE FLIES
Postmodernism
postwar cultural movement
started around 1950
revival of historical elements and techniques
changes to institutions and creations
social and political results and innovations
Postmodern authors
depict the world as having undergone countless disasters & being beyond redemption and understanding
Postmodern literature
a play on words which reflects the meaninglessness of the late modern world
fragmented, disoriented, chaotic
reflects late modern society
shows the individual's inability to establish a personal identity
binary contrast
good-evil
true-false
real-unreal
order-chaos
no acknowledgment of universal truth
reacted against tendencies of Modernism
James Joyce and Virginia Woolf died (1941)
World War II
the entire city of Dresden was destroyed due to firebombing
Nagasaki and Hiroshima are destroyed by atomic bombings
Jewish&Gypsy were deliberately killed
the beginning of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the US
the rise of the Communist Party and the Civil Rights Movement in the US
Publication date
1954
Themes
civilization versus savagery
children became cruel, blood thirsty hunters
no desire to return to civilisation
loss of innocence
Genre
allegorical story
literal level
children - crushing - saved
superimposed level
story about human nature
adventure story
voyage, unknown, children
dystopia
"out of place"
apocalyptic
image of the end of the world
Modernism
what happens to the psyche&characters in these crisis situations
Setting
near future during the wartime
deserted tropical island
Symbols
"beast"
the savage impulses lying deep within every human being
evil&violence
the conch shell
civilization and order
right to speak
Piggy's glasses
power of science and intellectuality
the signal fire
hope/life
destructive civilization
the Lord of the Flies
the Devil
Ralph
order
Piggy
Jack
savagery
Simon
human goodness
face painting
part of ritual
another personality
Literary devices
allusion
irony
Jack wanted to stick to the rules, but become the cruellest boy
personification
impaled saws head seen as a Devil
foreshadowing
hyperbole
simile
Point of view
third person omniscient
human struggle between the civilizing and the savage instinct
Interpretations of the novel
history of civilization
fundamental religious issues
original sin
nature of good&evil
criticism of the political&social institutions of the West
theories of Sigmund Freud
the human mind was the site of a constant battle among different impulses
Characters
Ralph
elected leader, responsibility for weak, strong, honest, rational
Jack
manipulative, strong, brave, primitive power, brutality, instinctual
Piggy
voice of reason, realistic, intellectual, outsider