Lord of the flies context
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- Created on: 14-05-16 15:50
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- WW2
- 'Lord of the Flies' context
- Belief of innate evil
- Golding believed that every human is born with a natural evil
- Only rules and laws, which provide the threat of punishment, restrain the evil
- If a civilised society is not in place the innate evil thoughts will be carried out
- Since evil is natural in all humans, even children are capable of evil
- Evil always triumphs over goodness - Simon's death
- 'The Lord of the Flies'
- Translation of Beelzebub
- The beast is inside - all have a demon inside of us (evil)
- Demon from the book of Genesis
- Belief of savagery
- Golding portrays the idea that humans can devolve
- Charles Darwin's theory of evolution suggests that we have evolved from a primitive and animalistic background
- Without authority and the restraints of civilisation humans will descent back into savagery, just as the boys do
- Golding believed that when savagery battled against civilisation, savagery would always triumph
- Experiences in Boys' school
- Boys prefer to play games instead of work - lack of priorities (hunting over building shelters)
- Golding realised how boys have a need for competition - Jack and Ralph's power battle
- When left without authority, boys would 'act up' and bully each other
- Belief of innate evil
- Europe - Nazi concentration camps (Ethnic cleansing)
- Japan/South Pacific - Prisoner of war camps (brutality)
- Golding's experiences in war - Fighter pilot in South Pacific
- Allied forces dropping Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - killing civilians (Referenced by Piggy)
- Masking actions (end of war) just like Jack's painted face
- Evil and Brutality on both sides
- The aftermath of concentration camps was most influential in Golding's writing
- 'Lord of the Flies' context
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