Lord Of The Flies
(William Golding)
Wow! What else can I say! ?Lord of the Flies? is a powerful, savage testament to the almost infinite capacity for brutality that lives in human condition. It is a crystal clear look at the raw motivations that are left inside us all when ?civilization? is left behind.The relatively simple but elegantly put question of the novel is this; given a troop of British children are stranded on a jungle island in the Pacific during World War II, will they choose order, set up signal fires and a peaceful camp as dictated by the organized leader Ralph, or will they follow Jack, the savage pig killer into the jungles and a life of freedom and madness.It?s wonderful. At first most of the children follow Ralph and his friend ?Piggy? carrier of the law. The lure of fresh meat, wild dancing and the law of the pack soon over take many of the survivors and eventually war of a sort breaks out under the palm trees with Jack and his hunters hunting first ?The Monster? then Ralph, ?Piggy,? Simon and their followers.Golding, who was eventually knighted, was a master of imagery and metaphor; a conch shell worn smooth and shiny by handling sounds out a call to order, the dead pilot of a fighter plane sits on the mountain side, breathing the smell of death from his flight suit as his parachute rocks him back and forth.So who win in the struggle between order and chaos? When sailors appear on the beach and the boys are reduced in a moment from warriors to crying children, the Navy man who greets them is so disturbed by what he sees that he turns for comfort to the smooth lines of his battleship lying in the ocean. Ouch! Harsh testament.
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