Lord of the Flies
William Golding’s 1954 novel "Lord of the Flies" tells the story of a group of young boys who find themselves alone on a deserted island. They develop rules and a system of organization, but without any adults to serve as a civilizing impulse, the children eventually become violent and brutal. In the context of the novel, the tale of the boys' descent into chaos suggests that human nature is fundamentally savage.
Lord of the Flies explores the dark side of humanity, the savagery that underlies even the most civilized human beings. William Golding intended this novel as a tragic parody of children's adventure tales, illustrating humankind's intrinsic evil nature. He presents the reader with a chronology of events leading a group of young boys from hope to disaster as they attempt to survive their uncivilized, unsupervised, isolated environment until rescued.
Have you ever wondered how people would act if they were stranded on an island? Lord of the Flies might be the right story for you as it tells the tale of a few English school boys who have a plane accident causing them to be stranded on an uninhabited island. Trying to be “civilised”, they elected a leader for themselves as well as started the division of tasks (hunters, fire-watchers, etc). Things turned bad when there's a power struggle between the group leaders, worsened by various sightings of a monster on the island. The scary thing about this book is how real it is. Lord of the Flies is a very realistic dystopian fiction, it gives you a possible world scenario, a bunch of very human characters and then it shows what you want might happen when they are thrown into a terrible situation. What Golding shows us is that we are not so far from our primal nature, from our so-called killer instincts, and all it takes is a little push out of the standard world we live in for us to embrace our darker side. It’s a good book with a lot of ideas though at times I found it to be too slow paced. The dialogue is confusing at times and many of the children fade into the background with only a small few developing distinct personalities. Although I liked this book, I found some parts rather boring; there were too many descriptions of one part of the island which was called “the scar” and a few chapters I felt were longer than they should have been. All in all, it was a fascinating read.
ReplyDeleteLa novela «Moscas» nos traslada a Oslo en 1968. Una detonación rompe el silencio y la paz de un tranquilo edificio con siete inquilinos. Uno de ellos Harald Olessen, antiguo combatiente noruego contra la ocupación nazi, aparece muerto de un disparo en la cabeza en el interior de su apartamento. Puerta y ventanas se encuentran cerradas. Pronto las únicas sospechas recaen sobre los seis inquilinos restantes.
ReplyDeleteTodos tienen algo que ver con el muerto y todos tenían alguna razón para matarlo. Hechos del pasado que no han podido ser olvidados por esas personas que él denomina “moscas urbanas” a quienes la fatalidad les hace revolotear continuamente sobre ellos.