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Barbarism In Lord Of The Flies

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In ‘Lord of the Flies’, there are various kind of character that they all have their own distinct symbolic meaning. This story attempts to elaborate from the four aspects,which is goodness, evil, prophecy and blindness; analyzes the connotative meaning of the symbol of the novel.I’m deeply touched by the formulation of the reason of the rules, also the meaning, and the implementation. There is a reason under the premise of standing on civilization to look on barbaric, brutal or the process and reasons of "evil nature", and the significance. One of the most representative is the conch that Ralph found and the conch run through the whole story. It is all because of the conch all the youth survivors gathered together and it lead to the conflict …show more content…

That is, in the already exist human civilization system, we are comfortable to speak in a certain way and think in a certain way.We were told from an early age, what is right, what is wrong. Help others is right, stealing and robbery is wrong, and all sorts of other things. We have been perfused by such a system, has been the initial income in life, the system of discrimination, has accepted a set of standards, has been from birth to now according to their own hearing, see the definition of civilization, the definition of civilization is good The situation to observe the barbarism, whether to meet their own definition of good. In ‘Lord of the Flies’, the author William Golding in accordance with his own values depicting a story to reflect somethings ironic in humanity and civilization. The analysis of the mainstream comment is to make people aware of the nature of man is evil, do not blindly optimistic. Here is a series of definitions, nature, evil, good, bad. People are talking about freedom, everyone has an independent personality, the pursuit of autonomy, the concept of freedom.I think this is a book that can lead people to chew over about the system, the survival, the battle and the philosophical objective

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