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Grade 9 Lord of the Flies GCSE AQA English Literature : Summary and Analysis
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Lord of the FliesWilliam Golding
,Key themes - Reversal of evolution + progression of
civilisation
- Civilisation - Sight and good vision necessary for peace
- Original sin - Island = microcosm of the real world
- Moral goodness - Toy of democracy
- Leadership - Ostracism of Piggy
- Dictatoships v democracy - Civilisising instinct vs barbarising instinct
- evil/good - Morality, law and culture vs anarchy, blood
- order/disorder lust, violenceInherent evil
- Society - Reversal of evolution + progression of
- Friendship civilisation
- power/powerlessness - Sight and good vision necessary for peace
- freedom/slavery - Island = microcosm of the real world
- Social constructs - Toy of democracy
- Evolution - Ostracism of Piggy
- Civilisising instinct vs barbarising instinct
- Knowledge vs innocence - Morality, law and culture vs anarchy, blood
- Corruption lust, violence
- Reason and logic
- Inherent evil
,Key ideas - Context
- Myth of the enlightenment narrative of - Anti-Rosseau
progress - Children are not innocent
- Emphasised by events such as - Hobbes
Holocaust in WW2 - Life for most people
- Deontology : only way to be civilised is by ‘Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish
having rules and short’
- Deifies goodness (simon) : - Natural right of ‘self
UNATTAINABLE preservation’
- LotF = Beelzebub - Tabulla rassa = humans are
- Demon of gluttony
born blank (vs inherent evil)
- Fallen angel
- Paradise lost
- Fall of man
- Origin of sin
- Learning of unwanted / bad
knowledge
, Context - Golding quotes
- ‘Even if we started with a clean slate, our nature compels us to make a muck of it’
- ‘Man porducs evil liek a bee produces honey’
- ‘I have always understood the Nazis … because I am of that sort of nautre’ ‘ partly out
of that sad self-knowledge that I wrote LotF’
- ‘I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature’
Extreme feminist : believes women > men
- ‘I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, thy are far superior and
always have been’
- Few women in Golding’s life
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