The Lord of the Flies By William Golding
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| The Lord of the Flies By William Golding |
1. The Author and His Times
William Gerald Golding was born on September 19, 1911, in Cornwall, England. His father was a school principal and his mother was a suffragist. His parents wanted him to study science, so he did it from high school to his second year of college. After his second year of university, he abandoned his scientific studies in favor of English literature. He wrote poetry and worked for a time in amateur theater before becoming a teacher at the start of World War II. At the start of World War II he entered the Royal Navy and served with distinction in minesweepers, destroyers and rocket launchers. He believed that the horrors of World War II might be based on an innate evil that he explores in Lord of the Flies. After the war he returned to teaching and writing, although he never published. He was able to publish Lord of the Flies and it was a huge success.
2. Form, Structure, and Plot
Lord of the Flies contains twelve titled chapters. The plot is simple and rarely breaks into more than one line, although it does sometimes. Sometimes the story breaks away from the general whole and follows a child. For example, the story followed Jack's first trip into the woods, as well as Simon's wanderings to be alone. One of the techniques he uses in organizing plots is foresight. Through the use and manipulation of various symbols, he gives the reader a glimpse of what is to come, foreshadowing future events.
3. Outline of Events
Explanation:
The show is basically all of Chapter 1 and the first part of Chapter 2. The characters and the problem are introduced. Readers learn that because of the war, the children were taken somewhere by plane when the place was attacked and crashed onto the island. Ralph is the leader of the entire group and Jack is the leader of the hunting party. Piggy tries to keep order. It takes a day.
Rookie Action:
The Rookie Action begins halfway through Chapter 2 when the boys try to start a traffic fire, but it gets out of hand. One of the boys is missing. After that, order is slowly lost and chaos slowly takes its place.
Spike/Crisis:
The spike occurs when the system is completely lost, the conch is crushed and Piggy dies. Jack takes charge of the group.
Drop in Action:
The drop event is the brief period between the moment Jack assumes control and the officer's arrival. We see an innate evil in children and it is a reflection of the evil in all of humanity.
Solution:
The forest caught fire and the battleship saw smoke. An officer arrives as the other children chase after Ralph and they are all rescued and returned to society.
4. Point of View
Golding writes the novel from a third-person perspective. There is only one omniscient narrator. Although the book generally follows Ralph, it occasionally breaks off and follows another character for a time. This whole book is autobiographical because it tells us something that the author wants to show us. Golding tries to teach us and warn us about the evil nature of humanity. He says in the book that we are bad and that only society prevents us from committing crimes.
5. Character
Golding's personalities have depth and are believable due to the somewhat preposterous situation they find themselves in. Each character has its own fully developed personality. It does this by maintaining a certain symbolism in the characters. Each character, being its own person, symbolizes an idea, but not to the point where the characters are flat.
Ralph -
Ralph is 12 years old and is one of the biggest boys on the island. He is the leader of most writers, determined, rational, and understanding. He was dressed in his typical school uniform, but not like the altar boys. Try to understand the problem and that the islanders are trying to find rational solutions. However, psychologically, he lost his faith in the boys and decided he had little hope of restoring order to the island. Its purpose is to show the reader through his eyes the deterioration of society on the island, and thus to show the innate evil in man. "It expresses your understanding and care."
Jack:
Jack is also one of the older boys and is about the same age as Ralph. He started as the leader of the Children of the Altar and eventually became the leader of the Hunters and took control of everyone on the island. He's very elegantly dressed in an altar boy costume. He is strong and mean and proud of perpetuating the crimes committed by the boys of the island. He only cares about his own power and not the public good. He is indifferent to the system and the reader clearly sees in him the innate evil of man, because he was the first to break away from society. Because of this, he becomes the strongest opponent of Ralph. "I have to be a conductor because I'm a choir member and a director. I can sing C sharp."
Piggy:
Piggy is slightly smaller than Ralph and is among the weakest of the group due to being overweight and suffering from asthma. He dressed as Ralph in the style of Ralph in a typical school uniform and eared glasses. He is weak, intelligent and friendly. While he is viewed with disdain by the other children, he is needed on the island as a source of intelligence and insight. His ideas are often ignored due to his frail appearance and killed by Jack and his sons. "My aunt told me not to run because of my asthma."
Simon -
Simon is the patron saint of the story. He is skinny and wears clothes similar to Ralph in his school uniform. He is kind, loving and honest. In the novel, he serves to give an insight into the story. He is the one who seems to understand the evil within him best, and the first to understand the beast. Take care of the little ones. Unfortunately, he lost his sight among the children when they killed him and thought he was the monster. Sitting between the twins and Peggy, Simon wiped his mouth and pushed the piece of meat on the rocks toward Peggy, who grabbed it. The twins laughed and Simon lowered his face in embarrassment.
6. Setting
Lord of the Flies is set on an island during World War II. This is important because solitude constitutes a kind of civilization and society, a kind of microcosm of the real world. At the same time, the island lacks the society, laws, and social rules that allow children to let themselves go and show their true inner selves. Since the island is a microcosm, Golding uses it to reflect our world and to comment on our world and his view of human nature. In this book, the setting serves less to create an atmosphere of putting the characters in a particular situation.
7. Themes
1. This book links the faults of society with the faults of the individual. Golding says that everyone has a sinister nature within them that is not poorly covered by society. If society is removed, inner nature resurfaces and chaos and disorder erupt.
2. Everyone has an evil nature and is capable of committing heinous crimes. In this book, almost everyone fell into the level of Jack's brutality, except for those who can see this evil, such as Ralph, Simon and Peggy.
3. The beast is human. At the beginning of the book, a young child tells the others that he saw a monster in the forest that frightened everyone. However, it turns out that the monster is in fact a paratrooper and a human, which symbolizes that what they should be afraid of is not an evil creature, but themselves and other humans.
8. Style
Golding brings her novel to life with purposeful use of symbolism, physiological evolution, and general facts. His writing style is simple, but the subject matter is deep. Use a relatively simple story to convey a compelling idea.
9. diction
In Lord of the Flies, Golding's language is neutral. However, it is as simple as telling the story itself instead of writing prose. The vocabulary and sentence structure are simple and easy to understand. Golding uses many avatars and devices.
Clip 1 -
"The three boys were walking briskly on the sand. The tide was out and there was a stretch of shoreline full of weeds and it was almost like a path. A kind of spark spread over them and on the stage and they were conscious They turned to each other, laughing heartily, talking, not listening The air was clear Ralph turned on his head and set about translating it all into an explanation When they finished laughing, Simon punched Ralph in the arm, blushing. , and they had to laugh again." (p. 25)
Clip 2:
"When you're done laughing, maybe we can still meet. And if they go back up into the hurricane, they'll be down in seconds. So you might as well sit on the ground and listen. No, you have doctors for everything, even in your mind. Don't you really mean that we should be afraid of nothing all the time? In a year or two, when the war is over, they'll come and go to Mars. I know there's no beast - not with claws and all, I mean - but I know there is no fear either.” (p.84)
Section 3 -
"Ralph stared at him in astonishment. For a moment he had a fleeting image of the strange magic that had once invaded the shores. But the island burned like dead wood - Simon was dead - and Jack had... Tears began to flow. flow and her sighs. Then she surrendered to them for the first time. Once on the island, a severe, trembling melancholy seemed to kill her entire body. Her voice rose under the black smoke against the burning remains of the island. And After being struck by these feelings, the other little boys began to tremble and sob too, and in the midst of them, his body dirty, his hair disheveled, his nose loose, Ralph lamented the end of innocence, the darkness of the human heart, and the fall through the air of a true and wise friend named Piggy". (p. 202)
Golding writes in a simple, neutral style. His language is neither complicated nor flowery. At the same time, it is not very formal. He uses a lot of imagery, as can be seen in his description of the "overgrown beach" that was "steady as the road" in the first step. The dialogue in paragraph 2 is not at all flowery and sounds like typical 12-year-old speech, except that Piggy seems to be smarter than your 12-year-old. Section 3 is clearly written and shows the sentiment well as he continues to narrate in a neutral tone without too much interference from the narrator.
10. Syntax
Most of the lines in Lord of the Flies are simple. There are complex sentences and sometimes a compound sentence. Most of the characters speak simply and clearly. They often speak fragments and link fragments and absorb the prose as in syllable 2. The entire speech is written as if it were a speech.
The first syllable contains mostly simple sentences. An example of a compound sentence is: "When they finished laughing, Simon turned red on Ralph's arm; and they had to laugh again."
The second stanza contains simple and complex sentences. In this passage, the speech is somewhat confused and contains several nuggets. However, this type of speech conveys the idea that Piggy was thinking as he spoke.
The third syllable contains mainly simple and complex sentences. The writing style here gives a feeling of hopelessness and hopelessness. The reader feels what Ralph feels and understands what he means about "the loss of innocence."
11. Imagery
Golding often uses images to describe the landscape and setting. A good example is in the first stanza where Golding writes, "There was a grassy strip of beach that was as solid as the road. A kind of spark spread over them and the stage and they realized the spark and rejoiced." for her. "
12. Symbolism
Golding uses a lot of symbolism in Lord of the Flies. The entire book symbolizes human nature and society in general, with the island becoming a metaphor for society as a whole and the hunt at the end of the book being a symbol of war. One of the symbols Golding uses throughout the book is the conch shell. It represents power and order. The person holding the trumpet had the power and established order and rules since he was summoned, everyone had to listen. Another icon is the Piggy glasses. It symbolizes knowledge and insight. While Piggy owned it, he was able to give advice to the group, like a stoplight. It was the glasses that lit the fire. However, once the vessels are broken, the group loses the insight they had. War drawing is also a symbol. It symbolizes the rejection of society. Somehow, when they put on the mask of war, they took off the mask of society and revealed their true inner being that was brutal.
13. Figurative Language
Personification -
Golding uses quite a bit of personification in this book. However, he used it during the conversation between the dead boar's head and Simon. The head is personified and Simon is given the ability to speak. Despite his death, he is proud and defiant in his speech.
Comparison:
Golding sometimes uses comparison. An occasion occurs in the first clip when Golding compares sand to a road, saying, "There was a strip of weedy beach that was as solid as a road."
Metaphor -
Golding uses simile a lot in this book. In fact, all symbolism is a kind of metaphor because it compares two different things. Other metaphors in the book are when Golding describes the altar boy at the beginning of the book as a dark creature crawling on the sand.
The Guide -
Golding has several guides in the book. The title itself is a reference to the Bible where the title "Lord of the Flies" was the title of Beelzebub. The name Simon in the book is also a reference to the disciple Simon Peter.
14. Ionic devices
There are many instances of irony in this book. Usually the meaning is simple. However, I found a case of verbal irony. This is the case where Ralph and Peggy discuss Simon's death. Ralph says, “I wasn't afraid. I was, I don't know what I was.”
15. Tone
Golding's tone is the lecturer's tone. Through his book, he tries to guide us and warn us of our evil. This tone is pervasive throughout the novel. The tone is maintained more by the events and characters of the story than by the syntax or style of writing. One such example is the discovery of paratroopers. The writing style of this part has remained as neutral as the rest of the book, but the event of encountering a skydiver as a monster teaches us that it's not a mystical monster to worry about but ourselves. .
16. Memorable quotes
“’I ought to be chief,’ said Jack with simple arrogance, ‘because I’m chapter chorister and head boy. I can sing C sharp.” This shows the early signs of the tension between Jack and Ralph, and it also shows Jack’s pride.
“Ralph stirred uneasily. Simon, sitting between the twins and Piggy, wiped his mouth and shoved his piece of meat over the rocks to Piggy, who grabbed it. The twins giggled and Simon lowered his face in shame.” This quote shows that Simon is kind and sincere.
“Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Bash her in.” These expresses the increasing intensity of the boys’ savagery.
“It was dark. there was that -- that bloody dance. There was lightning and thunder and rain. We was scared!” This describes how the boys’ have gone beyond the point of fun and games. They are no longer boys playing on the island but a bunch of savages.
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