LORD OF THE FLIES
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LORD OF THE FLIES
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Philosophical novel by William Golding's "Lord of the Flies" appeared in 1954. Simple plot, realistic images of children, mentally verified underlying motive actions of characters, exotic locales merged in the "Lord of the Flies" in a terrible dystopia, showing the "brutality" of mankind. In his novel, Golding showed no specific characteristic of certain ideas of time and the timeless essence of human nature - the sinful, terrible, descending to the most violent crimes in the absence of a positive deterrent.
The plot of the novel comes at a time dating Ralph and Piggy: encountered after the crash the boys try to understand what happened to them, and find ways to solve the problem. Collected trump marine horns English children (kids, five or six years and teenagers - ten to thirteen) at first trying to keep on the island of cultural and civilizational foundations of the country.Boys set the rules, most of which is to keep a camp fire. Fire in the "Lord of the Flies" becomes a symbol of life - it is the hope of salvation.
Everything changes with the first blood. Once Jack realizes that his ability to kill a pig, hunting of fun turns into a lifestyle. Following their leader former choristers changed beyond recognition. At the beginning of the hunters throw fire, then completely transformed into a savage tribe led by a dictator. New civilization, absorbed the primitive fear of the unknown Beast decides to appease the last terrible gift - impaled on a stick pig's head. When the latter goes bad, are going to fly around it, making the already disgusting thing in the shape of evil.
The image of the Beast in the novel relates to the way the Devil. An optimistic Ralph believes Beast fiction, Piggy denies its existence, relying on scientific knowledge of the world, the rest of the guys secretly afraid of the one who can kill them, not knowing that, first of all, you need to be afraid of ourselves. This knowledge opens...