Lord of the Flies Context Points
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- Created on: 15-04-18 16:34
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- Lord of the Flies Context
- Novel written just after WW2, published during Cold War.
- Original Sin
- Golding believed in this
- We are all capable of evil, we just need to be put in certain conditions.
- The Beast symbolises the evil within each of us
- Social Conditioning
- Golding believed it was this that stopped us committing evil acts.
- Roger - throws stone to miss
- Jack can't kill pig
- Teacher at an all boys school
- G was aware of mob mentality
- How boys behave when left alone as a group.
- Aware of boys potential to turn to violence and bullying
- G was aware of mob mentality
- Post WW2 Britain
- People fearful of nuclear warfare
- Sense of Britishness, not being 'savages'
- Piggy's Aunt is the only female voice in the novel
- Time when women's voices were struggling to be heard?
- WW2: Discrimination of the weak
- 1940s/50s Schooling
- Could be strict, punishments harsh.
- Children aware of social background and hierarchys
- Ralph and Jack = middle class
- Piggy = lower class
- Hitler
- Jack echoes his dictator style
- Neglects littluns
- Jack echoes his dictator style
- Diplomacy
- Conch represents it
- See the importance over keeping democracy over dictatorship in Piggy's murder
- Religion
- Simon - Jesus
- Lord of the Flies - Beelzebub - The Devil
- Coral Island
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