Lord Of The Flies
Registered by spy-there of Zürich, Zürich Switzerland on 5/8/2007
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The story reminds of these bizarre, medieval experiments where they let grow up children completely separated from humans and civilisation to find out whether they would develop a primal «holy» language. Golding launched this experiment with schoolboys - to see whether they would develop a primal socialization.
Thus he drops a bunch of boys in the age of 6 to 12 from an airplane onto an uninhabited island. Miraculously no one was hurt, no leg was broken, no bruises through rocks and trunks to wail. They came down in a kind of airbag (it plays in the future), this is never fully explained. Also: Golding’s tropic island is a rather constructed paradise with - how practical - a sweet-water source ... and it's populatet by pigs. How in the world the pigs came before onto that uninhabited island is explained neither. But Golding got his experimental setting. Now what will the children do?
Strangely, there is no whining for being lost and abandoned, to have neither a bed to sleep nor a refrigerator to provide food. As if it would be common to be thrown into wilderness, the boys merely enjoy freedom and fun. Well, some of them try to organize things - building a shelter, keeping a signal fire to attract possible ships – but mostly they play. Stupid, boyish plays of hunting and war ... become ferocious, embittered, and eventually the jokes turn serious. Disgusting things happen, unspeakable cruelty occurs, the prevailing anarchy unleashes pure evil. They even start to kill each other. At the end the beautiful paradise is scorched earth.
Twelve years old boys, becoming such horrible monsters? It’s so unbelievable! And I am shocked to see this piece of blood lust still as a lecture in school. What is the use of this allegorical fable? It’s too short to be a real gripper. Golding obviously only wanted to say something, but what? Males without female guidance become feral biests? There is no hope for democracy? War is an archetype of manhood? Why write such a novel just after the second World War when everybody was well aware how war is altering men? Just strange.
Thus he drops a bunch of boys in the age of 6 to 12 from an airplane onto an uninhabited island. Miraculously no one was hurt, no leg was broken, no bruises through rocks and trunks to wail. They came down in a kind of airbag (it plays in the future), this is never fully explained. Also: Golding’s tropic island is a rather constructed paradise with - how practical - a sweet-water source ... and it's populatet by pigs. How in the world the pigs came before onto that uninhabited island is explained neither. But Golding got his experimental setting. Now what will the children do?
Strangely, there is no whining for being lost and abandoned, to have neither a bed to sleep nor a refrigerator to provide food. As if it would be common to be thrown into wilderness, the boys merely enjoy freedom and fun. Well, some of them try to organize things - building a shelter, keeping a signal fire to attract possible ships – but mostly they play. Stupid, boyish plays of hunting and war ... become ferocious, embittered, and eventually the jokes turn serious. Disgusting things happen, unspeakable cruelty occurs, the prevailing anarchy unleashes pure evil. They even start to kill each other. At the end the beautiful paradise is scorched earth.
Twelve years old boys, becoming such horrible monsters? It’s so unbelievable! And I am shocked to see this piece of blood lust still as a lecture in school. What is the use of this allegorical fable? It’s too short to be a real gripper. Golding obviously only wanted to say something, but what? Males without female guidance become feral biests? There is no hope for democracy? War is an archetype of manhood? Why write such a novel just after the second World War when everybody was well aware how war is altering men? Just strange.
Journal Entry 2 by spy-there at Café Gloria (OBCZ) in Zürich, Zürich Switzerland on Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Released 16 yrs ago (5/8/2007 UTC) at Café Gloria (OBCZ) in Zürich, Zürich Switzerland
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Somebody must have taken it at today's meet-up. It ... disappeared <_<
Somebody must have taken it at today's meet-up. It ... disappeared <_<
