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Basile, Jennifer. "Democratic and Totalitarian Power Systems in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies." Thesis, Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Education, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-900.
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One important theme in William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies is power. The boys in Lord of the Flies copy the behavior of their parents: competing, fighting and even killing each other for power. They form two groups, each following a different power system, the democratic system on the one side and the totalitarian system on the other.
My aim in this essay is to examine the complexity of these power systems in Lord of the Flies, revealed in the two layers in which they appear in the story, the boys on the island and the adults in their world. Moreover I want to show how Golding contributes both positive and negative traits to both systems, never falling into the habit of giving a black and white picture of either of the power systems. Overall I will focus on two boys, Jack and Ralph, exemplifying through them how the two systems gain their power, develop their structures, which methods they use to keep power, and how the systems handle crisis. At the end of my essay I then will shortly illustrate how Golding connects the adult world and their behavior to the boys’ story.
My conclusion is that Golding shows very clearly that the desire for power and the will to fight and kill for it exists in both adults and children. Overall his attempt is to illustrate that it is difficult to have an absolute, perfect and ideal power system. There are always things that can be criticized and improved. However, he does indicate that certain systems are more dangerous than others. The totalitarian power system can escalate much easier into savagery than the democratic system. So, Golding prefers power systems that benefit the community rather than only the leader himself.
Bruns, Björn. "The Symbolism of Power in William Golding's Lord of the Flies." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Estetisk-filosofiska fakulteten, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-3207.
Full textAndersson, Angela. "Människan - ett konfliktsystem : En uppsats om samhällskonstruktion och religiositet i William Goldings Lord of the Flies." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Humanities, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-478.
Full textAmadova, Milana. "Eliciting Empathy with William Golding’s Lord of the Flies." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-184662.
Full textKong, Ching-man Paula. "Powerful obsession : variations on a theme in four fictions : Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness, William Golding's Lord of the flies and the spire /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B1868550X.
Full textBrunssen, Uwe. "Adaptations for the screen : William Golding's Lord of the Flies." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.364977.
Full textMavromatis, Stefanos. "Rational Femininity and Emotional Masculinity in Golding’s Lord of the Flies." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Fakulteten för lärarutbildning, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-22124.
Full textWigger, Jessica. "Teaching Democratic Values in the ESL classroom through William Golding's Lord of the Flies." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för lärarutbildning (LUT), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-22575.
Full textHoareau, Jean-Marc. "Désir, violence, sacré et pouvoir dans Lord of the Flies (1954), the Inheritors (1955), Free Fall (1959) et the Spire (1964) de William Golding (1911-1993)." La Réunion, 2007. http://elgebar.univ-reunion.fr/login?url=http://thesesenligne.univ.run/07_02-hoareau.pdf.
Full textOur survey deals with thé thème of founding (or ritualized) violence in accordance with René Girard's theory, in four novels of thé British writer William Golding (1911 - 1993) : Lord of thé Plies (1954), The Inheritors (1955), Free Fa// (1959) and The Spire (1964). This notion is récurrent in thé work of this novelist who is an unbiased and perceptive observer of human conscience and of social genesis. Indeed, in many novels he depicts this particular form of violence as functioning as an outiet for communal violence in structuraily archaic societies, as well as a sublimation of individuel violence inhérent in thé concept of Freudian unconscious désire. This kînd of violene, polarizing thé individua! aggressivities, whatever shapes it may reoccur in in our modem societies, makes it possible to survive in society. Consequenfly it is thé founding act on a socioculturel ievel: thé archivist-paleographer René Girard defines it as thé fundarnental myth. In its antesocial dimension, it must be controlled by power and eventually it is necessary to thé latter. Thus it takes a tautological character in exercising power. William Golding's socially structuring vision of îounding violence is similar to that worked out by René Girard in La violence et le sacré (1972), and therefore our methodological guideline has been thé theory of thé scapegoat deveioped in this work of Girard's
Bravard-Huntley, Sophie. "Formes spatiales et angoisse dans les cinq premiers romans de William Golding : Lord of the flies, 1954 ; The inheritors, 1955 ; Pincher Martin, 1956 ; Free fall, 1959 ; The Spire, 1964." Paris 3, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA030094.
Full textIn the first five novels of W. Golding, a fundamental anguish is linked with the experiencing of spatial forms : anguish distorts perception and generates hallucinatory shapes, with in turn increase the characters' agony. In Lord of the flies for instance, the mental disturbance and the growing worries of the children, revealed by the apparent changes in shapes that are usually regular (the coral ring, the spiral conch. . . ), give way to waves of anguish, which are amplified by the successive incarnations of an imagined "monster". .
Rashid, Aminur. "Revisiting the children in the coral island : Cruelty and perversity represented in the children of William Golding's Lord of the flies." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Barn- och ungdomsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-62045.
Full textBreem, Sami. "Studying the modern English novel : approaches for Palestinian English major university students with special reference to William Golding's Lord of the Flies." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.311916.
Full textKong, Ching-man Paula, and 江靜雯. "Powerful obsession: variations on a theme in four fictions : Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Joseph Conrad's Heart ofdarkness, William Golding's Lord of the flies and The spire." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31951351.
Full textNäslund, Simon. "Post-Traumatic Stress Among the Children in Golding’s Lord of The Flies." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Akademin för utbildning och ekonomi, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-12103.
Full textTsai, Yi-Ju, and 蔡宜儒. "Game-theorizing William Golding's Lord of the Flies." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/20515830705434377718.
Full text國立高雄師範大學
英語學系
102
Abstract Many—perhaps most—scholars of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies consider the novel to be an allegory resonating with Thomas Hobbes’s belief that humans are inherently evil. This comparison is natural given the progress of the novel’s action: everyone in the novel behaves in an orderly way at the beginning even though moral restraints are no longer directly imposed on them by the civilized world, but as the days go by, too many of the boys gradually surrender themselves to primitive passions, such as the hunger for meat and the lust for violence. However, this prevalent point of view has not stopped critics from trying to examine the novel from a variety of perspectives, including moral-philosophical, religious, archetypal, psychological, and historical-biographical perspectives. Each of these approaches has its own merits and limits, but one thing they have in common is that they all seek to reveal the essence of the novel in some significant way—a goal I also attempt to achieve through the game theory approach adopted in this thesis. Game theory helps us to study how people make choices in strategic situations while interacting with others and to predict the likely outcomes of certain decisions when interests conflict. By adopting game theory, this thesis will illuminate the relationships and interactions among the main characters of Lord of the Flies and explore the favorable or detrimental effects their decisions have on them, the expected consequences of their other options, and the relation of their behavior to that of people in the real world. Through this analysis, we will do better not only to understand the reasons for Ralph’s defeat and Jack’s rise to power but also to reflect upon real-life world leaders’ strategic thinking methods and the motives for their decisions. Keywords: William Golding, Lord of the Flies, game theory, strategy, cooperation, conflict
Yang, Ju-han, and 楊茹涵. "War, Essence of Man and Political Order: A Political Understanding of William Golding's Lord of the Flies." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/84754875634043447533.
Full text東吳大學
政治學系
100
In this thesis, I will attempt to explore William Golding’s Lord of the Flies and try to investigate why he criticizes the rationalism and civilization after he personally involved in World War II. Also, we have to figure out how does he reveal the essence of man: Lust and Fear to construct the political order? My thesis will begin with Golding’s personal background, and then try to understand how World War II influences on Golding’s writings. Besides, from the descriptions of the conflict and dispute in the novel, we can catch on to Golding’s view of rationalism, man and political order further. These analyses can help us to clarify what the limitation of constructing political order is. This research found that Golding considers essence of man as the grey area, and the purpose of writing Lord of the Flies conveys the border between good and evil is easily across. Therefore, for the sake of political order, the deterrence with force seems to be a necessary way to stop the conflict. It seems to be an effective way, but it still has some limitations like the problem of violence in the country and the sanction in the global world. Consequently, the deterrence with force as pursuing political order still faces lots of challenges.
Chang, Chi-yu, and 張其羽. "A Study of Hobbesian Pessimism in William Golding's Lord of the Flies." Thesis, 1994. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47075871862383012485.
Full text淡江大學
西洋語文研究所
82
Long glorified as a writer of humanity, Golding devotes his energy and talent to scrutinizing the relationship between mother nature and human nature and how it influences our life. Lord of the Flies, the most typical of his novels, suggests to us the world as a state of nature, which includes the macro state of war caused by the adults, and a micro one caused by children. Adopting a Hobbesian (philosophical and political) approach, this study examines how Golding works the complexity of human nature and political power into the story. The first chapter of this study introduces the plan and strategy of the thesis: it gives a brief interpretation of Hobbes's pessimistic tendency and Golding's concern with humanity, and roughly indicates the relationship between Hobbesianism and Golding's story. The second chapter discusses human nature, which is parallel to Hobbes's political theory, and involves the problem of human selfishness, the Hobbesian laws of nature and rights of nature, and the analysis of the Hobbesian state of nature in Lord of the Flies. The third chapter, which contains a study of the social contract and Hobbesian absolute sovereignty, discusses the power structure the boys construct on the desert island they settle. The conclusion is a summary and a concluding view of Lord of the Flies as Golding's warning to his contemporary world.
Wang, Hsin-yuan, and 王幸媛. "Symbolism in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies and Its Appilcation to English Teaching." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/42299705899607238159.
Full text國立彰化師範大學
英語學系
93
The importance of Lord of the Flies by William Golding, an English novelist, lies in its attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature. The novel explores the corruption and evilness of mankind thoroughly. It makes good use of symbolism to describe the human nature and behaviors to warn readers to control and prohibit the wicked nature. Golding uses the omnipotent third-person narration associating some major characters with symbols of ration and viciousness, making his novel achieve an unrivaled situation. It examines the dark side of human nature and proves that civilization and social system can prevent man from regression to savagery. This thesis consists of five chapters. Chapter one introduces Golding’s biographical background and points out the practicality of applying Lord of the Flies to senior high school English teaching. Chapter two examines the major characters in the novel associated with rational symbols. Chapter three inspects the major characters in the novel associated with evil symbols. Chapter four concentrates on the application of Lord of the Flies to the EFL senior high school classroom in Taiwan and the analyses of the major findings in the teaching experiment. Chapter five concludes the above analyses and discussions, and suggests the application of the novel to English teaching.
Lin, Horng-Yuh, and 林宏裕. "The Truth of Human Nature in "Paradise" Island In William Golding's Lord of the Flies." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/44664736120653183244.
Full text國立中正大學
外國語文研究所
104
Does William Golding’s Lord of the Flies have any historic suggestion? If so, why does Golding not specify the island’s exact location and time in the novel? How does Golding evaluate humanity in the novel? These questions surround the themes of Golding’s works. Similar to R. M. Ballantyne’s The Coral Island, Golding is beware of the impact of catastrophe. Drawing on Clare Bradford’s concepts of “community,” “authoritarianism,” and “travel into the darkness,” this thesis aims to discuss the defects of human nature and the social corruption in Golding’s Lord of the Flies. According to Bradford’s ideas about Utopian Literature, this thesis is divided into two chapters relying on Golding’s symbolic objects between Jack, Ralph and Piggy. These characters’ thoughts and attitudes are discussed in this thesis. The first chapter marks the protagonist’s symbolic objects, because of which Golding’s Lord of the Flies gives critics fuel for many arguments. To dismiss Golding’s mythical object, I discuss Oldey’s idea of talismanic objects and Bradford’s ideas of community to analyze the community between Ralph and Jack. Along with this analysis, I intend to focus on each characters’ individuality and demand for solitude. Second, I adopt Bradford’s idea of authoritarianism to develop personal freedom, innovation and self-realization. I suggest that these characteristics are the main elements involved in growing to maturity. Third, I intend to probe human defects by Bradford’s concepts of traveling into the darkness. Similarly, William Golding has mentioned original sin which is analogous to Bradford’s theory, considered as losing identity. Fourth, I plan to examine the connection between young adult literature and Golding’s Lord of the Flies because both feature conflict among adults and juveniles. They hold opposite-end views on the equality that displays unequal relation. I argue that Golding uses dystopian ideas to scorn current society which is full of subordination between adults and young adults, between government and citizens. The second chapter of this thesis focuses on awareness and innocence lost through Hannah Arendt’s idea of totalitarianism and William Golding’s opinion toward sin and innocence. This section includes three parts. At first, I briefly introduce Arendt’s theory of totalitarianism; the purpose of this is to connect the experience of wars with Golding’s novel. Moreover, both lectured in school and took part in the affairs of war, their experience can help us understand the truth human nature. Second, I further apply Clare Bradford’s conception of utopia in children’s literature to analyze how Golding depicts innocence lost by experiencing a series of adventures and death. I argue that Golding and Arendt consider human innocence as the part of original sin. In addition, Golding’s characters disguise the truth because of the self-deception included in Golding’s sin. Third, I intend to examine Golding’s attitude toward religion because he was influenced by his parents as a child. I consider the dead parachutist and the pig head as implications hinting at the moral lesson that we should learn from Golding’s novel and from Arendt’s philosophy. From these two subjects, I show that both writers’ scientific exploration is the search for authenticity. Perhaps because of their education careers, they paid more attention to the connection between society and education. Focusing on awareness and innocence lost, they have a deep understanding. In short, I maintain that William Golding’s defective humanity in the novel results from the impact on totalitarianism, which loses human innocence and awareness.
Shu-chun, Lin, and 林淑君. "A Psychoanalytic Reading of William Golding's Lord of the Flies and Its Application to English Teaching." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/20560107451527471667.
Full text國立彰化師範大學
英語學系
98
ABSTRACT The thesis aims to explore psychoanalytic reading in William Golding's Lord of the Flies and to apply the issues to English teaching. In the first half of the thesis, the researcher applies psychoanalytical reading to interpret William Golding’s Lord of the Flies and discusses how psychoanalytical reading was presented in the novel. In the second half of the thesis, the researcher focuses on the teaching of the psychoanalytical reading in Lord of the Flies. This thesis consists of six chapters. Chapter One is the introduction. The first part introduces the research, including the motivation of the study, purposes and research questions, significance of the study and organization of the entire thesis. The second part provides the reasons why the literature enriches language learning which included the appropriateness of teaching Lord of the Flies. Next, William Golding’s biographical background and literature review of Lord of the Flies are presented. Chapter Two introduces the psychoanalytical criticism, followed the psychoanalytical reading in terms of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and Freudian division of mind, and three literary works, Wu’ A Journey to the West, Hawthorne’s Young Good man Brown, and Dickens’ A Christmas Carol are presented to account for the dynamic relations of the division of the mind. Chapter Three explores the exemplification of the psychoanalytical issues in Lord of the Flies. The first half applies the theory of the hierarchy of needs to the characters. The second half deals with the characters’ analysis by using Freudian division of mind. The psychoanalytical reading is applied to provide profound insight to the understanding of the novel. The application of Lord of the Flies to English teaching is discussed in Chapter Four. The first section presents the researcher design including the participants, the instruments, data collection procedures and data analysis. The second section presents the teaching application including teaching approaches, teaching activities, lesson plan, texts, and the teaching procedures. Chapter Five presents and discusses the results of the teaching application. Chapter Six, the conclusion, includes the major findings of the study, limitations of the present study, some pedagogical implications and suggestions for further studies. Key words: William Golding, Lord of the Flies, English novels, English teaching, Psychoanalytical reading, Maslow’s hierarchy of need, Freudian division of mind
SOVOVÁ, Hana. "Téma dětství, násilí a manipulace v románech Lord of the Flies Williama Goldinga a I am the King of the Castle Susan Hillové." Master's thesis, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-396502.
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