LORD OF THE FLIES

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LORD OF THE FLIES

• WILLIAM GOLDING

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JOURNAL

• WHAT MAKES US CIVILIZED?

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PHILOSOPHERS

• THOMAS HOBBES (1588-1679)
• Man is evil and must submit himself to the
  civilizing influences of society.

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• JOHN LOCKE (1632-1704)
• Man is naturally good.
• No structures should be placed on him
• TABULA RASA

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• JEAN ROUSSEAU(1712-1778)
• Society corrupted the noble savage

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BIOGRAPHY WILLIAM GOLDING

• 1911-1993
• a citizen, a novelist and a schoolmaster
• I am fully engaged to the human dilemma.
• Preoccupation with morality

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• Dad is a schoolmaster
• Mom is a suffragette
• Golding himself works as a teacher /writes poetry
  first
• Joins the Royal Navy 1940sees a lot of combat/
  is part of the D-Day invasion

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• Experience of the war causes a profound change
  in his opinion about humanity.
• After the war goes back to teaching

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MAJOR WORKS

• LORD OF THE FLIES (1954)
• THE INHERITORS (1955)
• PINCHER MARTIN (1956)

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PESSIMISM PERSONIFIED

• Golding the whole book is
• symbolic
• Fable
• Allegory