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William Golding (460) - Coggle Diagram
William Golding (460)
Life
Oxford (Science+English Literature)
Cornwall (UK) in 1911 son of a schoolmaster
died of heart failure in 1993
British navy in 1940 + WW2 (landings in Normandy=free France)
pshycological impact
darker perception of life and human nature + NO innocence + damaged by war
inspired and affected his writing
Lord of the Flies
1st Novel in 1954 (sold over + translated 14)
after other similarly orginal and distinctive novels
1983 Nobel price for Literature 1988 knighted Sir
Structure of his Novels
structure= emblem of the spiritual life (imagination)
2 narrative movements
2 different perspectives of the same situation
radical shifts in points of view (end=pardox)
His Concerns
he speaks to imagination with immediacy & certainty
analysis of what is permanent in guman nature in relation with his cosmic situation
man's propensity for evil is far greater than his propensity for goodness