There are five main literary lenses: genetic, formal, transactional, sociocultural, and text to text. The first lens, genetic, looks at how the author relates to the book. This usually reflects on how the author came up with the idea for their book. Laurie Halse Anderson usually finds inspiration in people who are going through difficult life situations. The inspiration for Speak came from two places in particular.
Ever so often we are faced with the horrendous acts humankind is capable of. The Lord of the Flies written by William Golding is a fictional book about a group of british school boys who get stranded on an island which showcases the savagery we are all capable of. They lose their civility and become savages, and as a result some die such as Simon, Piggy and the boy with the birthmark. Until they are saved at last by a naval officer. All in all Ralph’s poor leadership and Jack’s unrestrained brutality were the ultimate reason for the islands demise.
In Lord of the Flies, William Golding conveys using rhetorical devices that everyone has innate evil and when evoked, it overcomes one’s sense of civility and humanity. The author creates a scenario whereby he places a group of boys onto an uninhabited island and examines how the group are effected over time. Through the course of the novel there is a considerable change in mentality throughout the group. The change is due to the lack of a strict and functioning society and ultimately the boys have degenerated into primitivity. In addition, the boys are becoming more evil, embodying evil in their own ways.
The events of Lord of the Flies are almost entirely reflective of the defects, flaws, and traits which lurk within our characters. Each character with their own ideologies and desires, constantly contradicting the ideas of one another. William Golding paints a picture of how society would crumble without law, order, and strong leadership. Highlighting the main events, impactful quotes, and brazen acts driving the action in this novel, ultimately causing the collapse of civilized behavior and death of two young boys.
A world without rules, a society without order…Such fantasies that once only wandered in the imagination of people’s younger selves comes to life in William Golding’s philosophical novel, Lord of the Flies. The piece illustrates a dystopian view of the world through a social experiment with school-aged boys that spirals out of control. Gradual deterioration of humanity unveils itself with the expanding division in values as well as the swelling fear of a beast. Essensuating the story is Golding’s unique style; the narrative is written in a poetic yet sinister tone, embellished with numerous biblical allegories and symbols. With such devices, he is able to further emphasize the purpose of the text.
Ralph’s Diminishing Ego Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, depicts the behavior of a group of boys when stranded on an island without adult supervision. The boys’ conduct can be associated with Freud’s personality model, involving the id, ego, and superego. As their stay on the island progresses, a majority of the boys display savage-like behavior, revealing the id as their foremost trait, for they acquire a desire for destruction. Furthermore, few boys remain true to character as their ego or superego continues to be most evident within their behavior. Ralph, for example, displays his ego predominantly, focusing on rational solutions to the issues the boys generate while on the island.
In life, we are expected to follow the guidelines and norms of society, but when there is no authority or rules to follow; individuals may lose control. The human mind is one of great mystery and in William Golding’s Lord of The Flies, we dive into the psyche of proper English boys: Ralph, Piggy, Simon, and Jack, who crash-landed on an island and are forced to fight for their survival. The boys are prime examples of the gradual mental deterioration that isolation and the lack of authority cause. Jack came to the island with a sense of pride and projected himself as a prim and proper leader, but as Jack began to realize the freedom he possessed, he changed. For two months, Jack and the boys began to truly express their inner savagery, due to
In William Golding’s book, The Lord of the Flies, he uses symbolism to show the inner demons of man through the characters and their surroundings in the novel. Golding shows how savage the boys become, how the boys use fear mongering, and how civil behavior held on. The boys of the novel are sent by plane to a place not mention to escape the London/England bombings by the German Luftwaffe “Blitz” of the Blitzkrieg during World War II. The plane ends up crashing into a deserted island in the middle of the ocean.
The Lord of the Flies novel, by William Golding, is a symbolic allegory, delving deep into the true horrors of war, savagery, and the loss of innocence throughout the duration of time the children spent on the island. I the novel a situation arises involving a dead parachutist, still he represents so much more than Mr. Golding makes apparent. Commonly applied to the story is the ideology of a “beast,” the concept behind these two aspects are similar, yet have a distinct separation between them. Just like the notion of the “beast” and the dead parachutist is the “Lord of the Flies” himself, pertaining to reasons related to that of the other two major examples of symbolism. The dead parachutist is so much more than what you see, you must go deeper
In William Golding’s Lord of The Flies the children are thrown into and environment where they’re left with no choice but to fend for themselves in a hazardous and unkown environment. Human corporality when liberated, attracts people away from discreteness and morality to savagery. Lord of the Flies, “concerns a group of British boys stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempts to govern themselves.” William Golding’s Lord of the Flies explores the idea that, despite differences in background and personality, anyone can commit heinous deeds, where the principle of civilized behavior has fallen out of use. Lord of the flies often portrays the contrast in the emotionally availability of the characters, and whether they can make decisive
In considering the impacts of Freud's view on the characters, in the novel Lord of the Flies, Golding demonstrates how each aspect
Power and manipulation takes over people’s minds and turns us into egotistical people without even knowing and the sense of having control or authority can brainwash us into the people who we despise. William Golding fabricates his ideas around the time period 1933 after he received his English degree where he mostly wrote poems. Golding’s world consists of writing novels, pulling ideas from the real world into his own creative words on paper, this is where he developed his most famous book, Lord of the Flies, throughout 1954. The perspective of Lord of the Flies is through the eyes of the Second World War and since he was in this war, his point of view on violence changed and gave him a different outlook on society. In the Lord of the Flies
William Golding’s 1954 novel, Lord of the Flies, is a historical work of literature that has been cited time and again by psychologists investigating human nature. Perhaps more interesting than its implications of human nature, however, are the characters and their wildly differing personalities, who make the engaging and bloodthirsty plotline a possibility. Ralph, Jack, Simon, Percival, and Samneric, five major characters of Lord of the Flies, contribute to the story in different ways, yet their names only occasionally match the way they act. A natural-born leader and athlete, Ralph is the person who takes charge of the other boys, managing each person’s duty from maintaining the signal fire to building shelter. In the early stages
hotographs that depicted the horrors of the concentration camps and thousands fleeing from their homes ahad triggered unpleasant memories of the past- WWII. As Samuel Totten pointed out, despite these historical connotations, no country was willing to intervene and endure those costs. For instance, although the United States played a significant role in the United Nations, because the European community decided to take on primary responsibility for Bosnia, the United States did little to alleviate the atrocities, Except the United States was a powerful international player and it was involved in the Cold War. To the United States, the Yugoslavia played an important part in the Cold War, so naturally it was determined to maintain a strong base
William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is a novel that exemplifies the psychology of the human race as defined by Sigmund Freud and his psychoanalytic theory of personality, defining the three parts of the psyche, the Id, the Ego, and the Superego, with the Id in constant conflict with the other two. An analysis of this theory will show that each of the main characters of the novel, Jack, Ralph, and Piggy, is the epitome of each psychological aspect of the human personality, proving that in the setting of the island without the societal values and morals of the macrocosm, the Id overcomes its adversaries. In Lord of the Flies, the protagonist Ralph comes to embody the Freudian element of personality called the Ego. According to Diane Andrews
