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Lord Of The Flies, Context
William Golding (1911-1993)
Author LOTF
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of
*
Joined the Royal Navy 1940
in
↳ witnessed allegory of story
l
the horrors of war
-
believed mankind which
no
longer was
inherently good influenced his
writing.
Post-war he worked there when
Wordsworth's LOT7was published.
-
at Bishop School and was
↳ He how treat
experienced boys could eachother.
threatIslandnuclear
-
(Ottwas published in 1954when the of war was real.
very
microcosm for conflict in real world
1930s:
Post
->
WWll, Britain still the devastation the war.
was
recovering from of
Golding was horrified by atrocities committed
during the war.
*
↳ evidence that 'goodness' could be corrupted and humans could become evil +
savage.
Coral Island:
*Coral island. (OIf
island is idyllic story three boys stranded
an of on an is
heavy
influenced
by coral island. Golding disagreed with coral island, and based on his war and teaching
that
experiences wrote what
he thoughtwould happen in situation....
, • Robbers Cave Experiment: this was a study investigating group conflict when
t wo groups are in competition for limited resources. It included t wo groups of
12 year old boys from white middle-class backgrounds and unknown to each
other. They were taken to a camp and encouraged to bond in their groups.
Neither group knew of the other’s existence. They established their own
cultures and group norms. The boys chose names for their groups, the Eagles
and Rattlers. Competitive activites such as baseball were done and the
Rattlers were confident and threatened the Eagles. Situations were arranged
where one group gained at the expense of another. At first, prejudice was
verbal but then became more aggressive. The experiment showed that if you
assign strangers to compete and there will be conflict. It shows that conflict
bet ween groups can trigger prejudice and discriminatory behaviour. The boys
at Robbers Cave can be linked to the boys on the island.
• 1972 Andes Flight Disaster: a Uruguayen rugby team took a plane to play a
match in Chile. A failed landing led to the plane crashing on a mountain. Of
45 people onboard 12 died in the crash and 5 died to next day. The remaining
27 were stranded with no food. They resorted to eating flesh from the dead
bodies. 2 months later 3 of 16 survivors trekked up the mountain in search
of human life. They finally saw people and called for help. The 16 survivors
were rescued. This tragedy showed that when isolated away from
civilisation in desperate circumstances people will resort to desperate
measures. This can be linked to LOTF as the boys plane also crashed and they
had no contact with the outside world as they were trapped on the island.
• Stanford Prison Experiment - 1971: this investigated how people would
conform to the roles of guard and prisoner in prison life and to find out
whether the brutality reported among guards was due to their personalities
or prison environment. A basement at Stanford uni was converted into a
prison and the simulation was kept as ‘real’ as possible. Prisoners were given
prison numbers and clothes. Within hours the guards began to harass
prisoners and the prisoners were dehumanised. The relationship bet ween
guards and prisoners made the prisoners submissive and the guards more
agressive and demanding. It showed how human adapt to the dire
circumstances they are put in and how ordinary people can become agressive
when put in control of others and in a powerful situation - people manipulate
power because they want more of it. It can be linked to Jack’s treatment of
the boys being very aggressive and controlling - like the guards.
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