Dissertations / Theses: 'Lord of the Flies'

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Amadova, 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.

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Some literature creates fictional worlds similar to the one we live in and others create worlds that are very different from ours. By inviting us to identify with characters, literature raises empathy. William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies is viewed by many as an emotional novel that can make its reader feel fear, confusion, empathy and anger, which makes it a useful tool to use when teaching about empathy. Developing empathy is an important process and while we cannot teach empathywe can evoke empathy using literature. According to the Swedish curriculum, students should be able to empathize with and understand the situation of other people. This study will analyse and present the ways in which William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies can be employed to cultivate empathy using different hypothesis and techniques suggested by Suzanne Keen, and with a lesson plan given at the end of this essay. This essay argues that Lord of the Flies cultivates empathy using the character of Piggy. The passages where Piggy is bullied are closely interpreted, as well as passages with Ralph, Simon and Jack. The analysis show that Piggy’s vulnerability makes him the victim. Readers tend to empathize with characters that show a vulnerable side or that are treated unfairly. Piggy’s role in the narrative is to make readers feel empathy because of the way he is portrayed, a fat boy with short hair and bad eyesight. The lesson plan presented at the end of this essay will show how these passages can be used by teachers.

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Brunssen, 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.

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Mavromatis, 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.

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This paper argues that in Golding’s Lord of the Flies feminine thinking is rational and masculine thinking is emotional. This essay provides historical background that presents the general patriarchal view of femininity during 20th century England of being seen as the inferior-emotional gender with intellectual limitations. By examining gender roles during the era that the setting of the novel takes place, what the terms feminine and masculine thinking indicate and by applying these terms, this paper categorises Piggy’s, Ralph’s and Jack’s behaviour and way of thinking. Furthermore, this paper argues that feminine thinking and feminine group-oriented logical behaviour are more advantageous, while the masculine individualistic emotionally driven thinking and behaviour cause some key problems. This essay’s goal is not to claim the superiority of one gender over the other but to question some of the masculine actions that Ralph and Jack engage in, by comparing them to the feminine actions that Ralph and Piggy engage in.

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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.

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Näslund, 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.

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The essay explored the connection between the deviation of the children’s behavioral patterns and the theory of psychoanalysis. Texts by Klein and Freud and also adaptations of their theories by Mangs, Martell and Salzberg-Wittenberg were used to explore whether the characters followed the developmental stages according to psychoanalysis. Through a comparison between the records of the characters’ behavior with diagnostic material regarding Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder composed by the American Psychiatric Association, the conclusion was drawn that the result of the analysis points towards the fact that the deviation in the behavioral patterns of the children was a result of the traumatic events that took place around them.

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Scott, Maria Nelia. "The theme of conflict in 'lord of the flies': a linguistic study." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 1996. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/handle/123456789/111572.

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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.

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The Symbolism of Power in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies An important theme in William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies is social power relations. These power relations are everywhere on the island, and are shown at different levels throughout the novel. These power relations are illustrated by symbols in the novel, which center on two different power systems, a democratic system, with Ralph as the head, and a dictatorial system with Jack as the leader. Sometimes these symbols are tied so closely together to both power systems that they mean different things for each of them. The aim of this essay is to investigate the different kinds of symbols that are used in the novel, and to show how they are tied to its social power relations. Those symbols that I have found are always important items that either Ralph or Jack use intentionally or unintentionally. The use of symbols is crucial to this novel, thus Golding shows us that an item is more powerful than it first seems.

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Wigger, 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.

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The aim of this essay is to show how to use William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies in the ESL classroom to teach democratic values. Such values include: respect, empathy and the right to free speech. According to Reader-Response theory, the reader brings expectations and knowledge about the subject matter (in this case democracy and its values) to the texts, which influence his/her interpretation. I have applied two different styles of analyzing a text: a Content-Based Approach and Simpson's Communication Triangle. The Content-Based Approach, in accordance with Reader-Response Theory, builds on students' knowledge and previous experience and focuses on the content to be acquired. The Simpson's Communication Triangle, on the other hand, connects reading, discussing and writing. Both of the approaches are designed to enhance the students' reading responses by providing different forums for sharing, such as discussions and writing (diary entries) from one of the character's perspective. The idea of creating Reader-Response journals is supported by multiple forms of theoretical study, and the assignments explained in this essay have been designed upon this research.

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Olofsson, Christina. "Leadership and Group Dynamics in Lord of the Flies and Tomorrow, When the War Began." Thesis, Karlstad University, Division for Culture and Communication, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-4875.

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The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast the two novels by focusing

on leadership and group dynamics. First, I explain some general terms like

primary and secondary groups, leader and leadership, and five different

leadership styles (autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire, task-motivated and

relationship-motivated leader), and then I apply the terms to the novels. In the

analysis I examine how some followers and group constellations react to different

kinds of leadership, and how the three leaders choose to approach their roles and

why they become successful or not.

The effect the democratic leadership has on both leaders and followers differs

between the novels. Homer in Tomorrow, When the War Began trusts his leadership

skills and gets appreciation from the primary group of friends he leads, while

Ralph in Lord of the Flies is disobeyed and challenged by his secondary group.

The group of teenagers grows stronger together, while the island boys disband as a

result of the power struggle between Ralph and Jack. The latter trusts his charisma

and threatens and punishes the boys in order to keep them under control. Jack

seems successful as an autocratic leader, since his followers carry out his orders

and let him be the unquestioned leader, but he is in the final analysis unsuccessful

since he fails to put the needs of his followers before his own strong desire for

power. Both Homer and Jack are strong leaders of their own primary group, and

one argument why they are more successful than Ralph is the loyalty they receive

from their followers. However, the reason for their faithfulness differs. In

Homer’s case it is friendship, and in Jack’s case it is fear of what he will do to

them if they defy him.

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Grue, Dustin Elias. "Same tune, different songs : banality, critical inventions, and collocations in Lord of the Flies criticisms." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/39939.

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What place does formulaic language have in literary criticism? On the one hand, as Douglas Biber (2006) suggests, repeating word combinations “are important for the production and comprehension of texts in the university” (p. 135). But on the other hand the repetition of stock or conventional phrases opens up academic writing to the charge of repetition, an act proscribed as ‘banal.’ So formulaic language is both good and bad: necessary but also necessary to avoid. And the study of literature might be especially subject to such folly, since the very epistemology of criticism is repetition – critics’ reproductions (through quotation) of an author’s writing, critics’ echoes of one another, secondary texts, etc. By necessity, a chorus of voices critiquing the same texts motivates the creation of conventional language – but what is this necessity? When is it generative, and when is it banal? Under the theoretical guidance of Relevance Theory, and using methods from corpus linguistics and the Digital Humanities, this work investigates formulaic language in a corpus comprised of literary criticism. Such criticism is 46 works on William Golding’s (1954) novel, Lord of the Flies. I also sketch the history of the theoretical concept of ‘collocation’—generally, the tendency for words to cluster around other words—and argue against the model of collocation that favours semantic conventionalization, where collocations are, essentially, coded with meaning. A main finding of this work is that collocations are often attributed to other speakers—real or fictional—and therefore their meaning is more pragmatically oriented than semantically conditioned. Data analysis is performed through automated rendering of the corpus using custom scripts, and qualitative analysis – of both the output of such rendering, and distanced reading of the corpus. The centerpiece tool of this work is a text-tool I developed that produces a visualization of terms’ collocates. This visualization is based on Howard White’s (2007a, 2007b) work in bibliometrics, and graphs collocations on two axes corresponding to the central tenets of Relevance Theory. Other quantitative methods of investigation describe the discovery of a term saliency metric (Chapter 2) and extended distributions of terms around other terms (Chapter 4).

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Andersson, 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.

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Ferrari, Giorgia <1993&gt. "Islands of dread: an ecocritical reading of The Tempest, Robinson Crusoe and Lord of the Flies." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/15217.

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L'elaborato avrà come oggetto di studio il tema dell'isola nella letteratura inglese, approfondito in chiave ecocritica. Verranno presi in esame tre testi: "The Tempest" di William Shakespeare, "Robinson Crusoe" di Daniel Defoe e "Lord of The Flies" di William Golding. Le tre opere verranno lette dal punto di vista ecologico, mettendo al centro della prospettiva analitica l'ambiente naturale e il modo in cui i personaggi si relazionano ad esso. Sulla base del contesto della crisi associata ai cambiamenti climatici, l'analisi parte dal presupposto che l'essere umano venga costantemente influenzato dall'ambiente naturale, e vice versa; pertanto è possibile analizzare in chiave ecocritica anche testi nei quali la natura non è propriamente una tematica centrale. L'obiettivo dell'elaborato sarà quello di mettere in evidenza il contesto ambientale e climatico associato a ciascun autore, per poterne successivamente riscontrare le implicazioni che si riflettono sull'ambientazione naturale dell'opera, per l'appunto l'isola.

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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.

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This essay aims at a group of little boys, aged between six and twelve, who once happen to meet in an isolated island having been cut off from their home. These boys are the characters of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Aiming at these children, this essay attempts to analyze their characters and actions. This essay describes the cultural background of the boys and later concentrates on the boys. They are not innocent. They are involved in violence and murder. This essay finds out that Golding is the person, who thinks that human is imprisoned to innate evil and that evil can be active even in the children. So, the children cannot be framed in innocence and vulnerability only. This essay also draws on R.M. Ballantyne’s The Coral Island children, who maintain the traditional idea of innocence and vulnerability in their actions. Actually, R.M. Ballantyne is referred to deepen the analysis of the topic. However, Lord of the Flies has a pessimistic tone of the loss of the childhood and innocence. This is seen when Golding’s Jack along with his gang savagely murders Simon at first and, at the second attempt killed Piggy, a wise boy. Jack takes over the island and establishes anarchy in the island. His and his gang’s cruelty continues until they pay the last visit to Ralph to destroy him. In short, this essay is placed in the theme of creative cruelty and perversity of the children Golding describes in Lord of the Flies.

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Breem, 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.

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Kofteros, F. "Pedagogy and its paradoxes in castaway fictions from The Swiss Family Robinson to Lord of the Flies : changing representations of subjectivity and 'the child'." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2017. http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/29443/.

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This thesis aims to broaden the scope of inquiry into castaway fiction for or about children by mapping the changing epistemological approaches to subjectivity, within five castaway novels spanning the early nineteenth century to post-World War Two. The novels include The Swiss Family Robinson (Johann Wyss, 1816), The Coral Island (Robert Ballantyne, 1857), Kidnapped (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886), A High Wind in Jamaica (Richard Hughes, 1929) and Lord of the Flies (William Golding, 1954). Taking close textual analysis as my default research method, this thesis is concerned with analysing how the child castaway materialised and evolved out a shift from religious hegemony and Humanist pedagogy operating in The Swiss Family Robinson to that of scientific rationalism and post-war postmodernism in Lord of the Flies. As a means of identifying and exploring the castaway child through these paradigm shifts, I have developed a psychoanalytic and poststructuralist theoretical framing for my analysis that draws on Jacques Lacan’s The Mirror Stage As Formative Of The Function Of The I As Revealed In Psychoanalytic Experience (1966), and Julia Kristeva’s Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (1980). These theoretical approaches to the relationship between subjectivity and language enhance my readings of how these castaways advocate historically specific language structures through which subjectivity is produced and can be read dialogically. Chapter one will analyse how the castaway child materialises in The Swiss Family Robinson as a ‘knowable’ subject of Enlightenment pedagogy influenced by three key works: namely John Locke’s Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693), Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Emile (1762) and Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1919). Developed through this intellectual triad, I interpret Wyss’s novel as representing the beginnings of the epistemological child castaway, which evolves dialogically. The following chapters will investigate how this ‘knowable’ child is gradually destabilised through increasingly fragmented representations of the castaway child, developed through the epistemological contexts of scientific rationalism, Darwinism, psychoanalysis, and post-war postmodernism.

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Miller, Courtney. "Host Specificity and Ectoparasite Load of Bat Flies in Utila, Honduras." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2014. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/honors_theses/63.

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Bat flies (Streblidae) are obligate blood-feeding ectoparasites of bats that display varying degrees of host specificity. A total of 265 streblid bat flies were collected from 122 bats belonging to the families Phyllostomidae and Natalidae from Utila, the smallest bay island of Honduras. Out of four host-parasite associations, three were considered primary. Out of the three bat species analyzed, one had significantly lower parasite prevalence and another had significantly higher parasite load and intensity. Both male and female bats were equally likely to be infested and variables of parasite density did not differ amongst host sex for any species. However, one species of bat had a significantly larger number of male parasites than female parasites. No significant relationships were found between variables of parasite density and host body mass or bat health (indicated by the ratio of mass to forearm length). The roosting ecology of the two cave roosting species in the study was considered and despite no apparent lack of dispersal barriers, the bat flies exhibited consistent primary associations. Examination of similar host-parasite relationship has many implications in parasite-host relationships and coevolution.

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Kong, 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.

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Hoareau, 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.

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Notre étude traite du thème girardien de la violence fondatrice (ou ritualisée) dans quatre romans de l'écrivain britannique William Golding (1911 - 1993) : Lord of thé Plies (1954), The inheritors (1955), Free Fa// (1959) et The Spire (1964). Cette notion est une constante dans l'œuvre de cet écrivain qui est un observateur lucide et impartial de la conscience humaine et de la genèse sociale. Dans bon nombre de ses romans, il examine le fonctionnement de ce type de violence comme exutoïre à la violence communautaire dans les sociétés à structure archaïque, et comme sublimation de la violence inhérente au désir inconscient freudien sur le plan individuel. Cette forme de violence, qui polarise les agressivités individuelles et qui ressurgit sous une forme ou une autre dans nos sociétés modernes, donne un caractère viable à la société, et de ce fait elle est l'acte fondateur socioculturellement : l'archiviste-paléographe René Girard la définit comme étant !e mythe de base. Dans sa dimension antésociale, il est impératif qu'elle soit gérée par te pouvoir et elle finit même par lui être nécessaire. Elle assume donc un aspect tautologique dans l'exercice du pouvoir. La vision structurante que William Golding a de la violence fondatrice est analogue à celle élaborée par René Girard dans La violence et le sacré (1972), ce qui fait que nous avons utilisé l'ouvrage de ce dernier comme outil méthodologique
Our 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

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Kong, 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.

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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.

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Dans les cinq premiers romans de W. Golding, une angoisse fondamentale est liée à l'expérience des formes spatiales : l'angoisse déforme les perceptions, génère des formes hallucinatoires, qui en retour l'amplifient. Ainsi, dans Lord of the flies, la perturbation des esprits et la montée des inquiétudes, révélées par les avatars apparents des formes habituellement régulières (l'anneau corallien, la conque spiraloi͏̈de. . . ), se traduisent en une angoisse dont les déferlements sont décuplés par les incarnations successives d'un prétendu "monstre". .
In 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". .

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Goldschmidt, Lara. "Capitalist Realism and the Post-Apocalyptic Community of The Society." Universität Leipzig, 2021. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A73696.

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Zárate, Christian. "Filosofin i barn- och ungdomslitteraturen : en studie kring filosofiska tankegångar i Nalle Puh, Liftarens guide till galaxen, Hungerspelen och Flugornas herre." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Avd för utbildningsvetenskap och språk, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-8958.

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Uppsatsen syftar till att undersöka om barn och ungdomslitteraturen tillägnat sig filosofiska tankegångar och hur detta har utryckts i fyra skönlitterära verk. Barnlitteraturen används i skolan framförallt för att öka läsförståelse och ordkunskap. I denna studie har jag pekat på att litteraturen även kan föra fram filosofiska idéer. Uppsatsen kan fungera som en vägvisare till hur filosofiska idéer kan hämtas från skönlitteraturen och på så sätt exemplifiera dessa med hjälp av litteraturen, men också hur vi på samma sätt kan göra litteraturen mer begriplig med hjälp av filosofiska exempel. Uppsatsen har visat att barnlitteraturen innehåller djupa och intressanta filosofiska tankegångar. Både äldre och nyare barnlitteratur kan därför med fördel användas i skolan för att introducera filosofiska begrepp på ett stimulerande sätt.

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Fantin, Joseph D. "The lord of the entire world : Lord Jesus, a challenge to Lord Caesar?" Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2007. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3604/.

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The purpose of this thesis is to determine whether in some of Paul's uses of the title K-6ptoq for Jesus, there exists a polemic against the living Roman emperor. After preliminary matters concerning methodology, history of research, and limitations are addressed (chapter 1), the sources for the study are described (chapter 2). Issues surrounding Paul's letters are considered. Then the various literary and non-literary sources which are used to better understand Paul's letters are discussed. The thesis proceeds inductively. Chapter 3 describes aspects of the first century context in which the original readers lived. This is intended to provide a grid to understand Paul's proclamation ofJesus as Lord as close to the first century context as possible. First, forms of emperor worship (imperial cults) are described within the context of Roman religious experience. However, this alone does not provide sufficient context to determine whether a polemic exists. Thus, the role of the emperor in the larger context is also considered. Chapter 4 focuses on the title K-6ptoq and the nature of lordship. First, the meaning, usage, and possible referents are described. The relational nature of the term is emphasised. The wide range of potential referents make it difficult to determine whether a polemic exists. The result is the postulation and defence of a superlative concept of supreme lord which has a restricted referent in a given culture. In chapter 5, the usages of the title for the Julio-Claudian and Flavian emperors are catalogued and it is determined that the living Caesar fills the role of the concept supreme lord in the context of Paul's original readers. Using communication principles from relevance theory, it is demonstrated that an author may include certain contextual clues that would suggest a challenge to the default referent by another. Certain modifiers and structures in the Pauline text lead to the conclusion that in some cases Paul intended a polemic against the living emperor. Specifically, this is suggested for Rom 10: 9; 1 Cor 8: 5-6; 12: 3; Eph 4: 5; Phil 2: 11.

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Bath, Eleanor. "Female aggression in flies." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3b7746e7-2c0d-46fc-a804-6978020f094f.

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Competition among individuals for access to resources crucial for survival and reproduction is ubiquitous across the animal kingdom. However, most research has focused on male-male competition over access to mates. Female-female competition (hereon "female competition") over resources vital for reproduction, such as food to provision offspring, nesting sites, or social dominance, has been largely neglected. In this thesis, I aim to contribute to the growing body of literature examining female competition by investigating female competition over food in two species of fly. start by assessing the role of an exaggerated secondary sexual trait (eyespan) as a signal in female competition in the stalk-eyed fly Teleopsis dalmanni. Sexual selection theory argues that females only possess exaggerated traits as a result of correlation with males and that they play no functional role. I find that eyespan is an honest indicator of condition but does not appear to function as a signal in either male or female intrasexual encounters, as previously argued. Next, I consider the effects of mating on female aggression in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. I find that mating doubles the amount of time females spend fighting over food. The ability to produce eggs is not required for this effect, but the receipt of sperm is essential. I also find that the magnitude of the effects of mating is determined by a female's developmental environment - mating significantly increases a female's chance of winning if she is raised at high larval density, but has no effect on her chances of winning if she is raised at low larval density. Finally, I find suggestions that variation in males and their ejaculates could alter levels of post-mating female aggression, suggesting that post-mating female aggression could potentially be under sexual conflict.

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Vogel, Emily. "Green-headed flies [novel] /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2009.

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Weldon, Christopher W. "Dispersal and mating behaviour of Queensland fruit fly, Bactrocera tryoni (Froggatt) (Diptera: Tephritidae) : implications for population establishment and control /." Connect to full text, 2005. http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/adt/public_html/adt-NU/public/adt-NU20051007.085638.

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Condra, Jill. "Lord Clive's suit?" Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ32081.pdf.

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Howe, M. A. "Thermoregulation in blood-sucking flies." Thesis, Bangor University, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.380268.

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Leggett, Margaret Claire. "Competitive interactions between seaweed flies." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.336087.

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Rochon, Kateryn, and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Arts and Science. "Persistence and significance of E. Coli in house flies (Musca Domestica) and stable flies (Stomoxys Calcitrans)." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 2003, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/233.

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The persistance of Escherichia coli in the larval, pupal and adult stages of both house flies, Musca domestica (L.), and stable flies, Stomoxys calcitrans (L). was examined. Abundance of E.coli declined over time in immature house flies, but remained constant in immature stable flies, suggesting house fly larvae digest E. coli but stable fly larvae do not. Survival of house fly and stable fly larvae averaged 62% and 25% respectively when reared on pure E. coli cultures. E. coli load in pupae decreased significantly one day before emergence of adult house flies, but remained constant until stable fly emergence. Nevertheless, E. coli was detected in 78% of emerging house flies and in 28% of emerging stable flies. House flies are more important E. coli vectors as adults, whereas stable flies may be overlooked vectors of E. coli during immature development.
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Coover, Dorian. ""Who is the Lord?" the self-revelation of the Lord in Exodus /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.

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Loder, Philip M. J. "The feeding dynamics of tsetse flies." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.357532.

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Millar, S. E. "Polytenization and mitosis in Dipteran flies." Thesis, Imperial College London, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/47282.

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Valencich, Kenneth James, and Kenneth James Valencich. "Honganji, Lord of Ishiyama." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625338.

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Studies of medieval Japanese history have often presented the upper-crust of society as divided into three distinct groups: warriors, nobles, and religious institutions. However, this model creates a sharper distinction between social classes than reality. Using the history of a sect of Buddhism called Honganji, this thesis seeks to problematize the tripartite model in order to demonstrate how blurred the lines between the social classes were. This is done through direct comparison between the actions of Honganji and daimyo, regional lords of the 15th and 16th centuries. The three ideas I focus on are: military action, organizational structure, and the creation of personality cults.

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Carey, Charles W. "Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment." Thesis, This resource online, 1995. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12052009-020355/.

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Renno, Erika Michelle. "Swatting at flies Pakistan's use of counterinsurgency /." Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2010. http://worldcat.org/oclc/645458345/viewonline.

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Jung, Sarah Nicola. "Visual Motion Detection in Tethered Flying Flies." Diss., lmu, 2011. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-136002.

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Swink, Whitney Garland. "The Dance Flies (Diptera: Empidoidea) of Madagascar." NCSU, 2009. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-10302009-191803/.

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The Empidoidea are a monophyletic superfamily of flies that includes dance flies (Empididae), long-legged flies (Dolichopodidae), and several small families (Atelestidae, Hybotidae, and Brachystomatidae). Empidoids are found worldwide and contain many thousands of species, but none have ever been described from Madagascar. An ongoing biodiversity survey by the California Academy of Sciences has brought to light many hundreds of undescribed empidoids from the island. This research project involves description, databasing, and DNA barcoding to establish the first estimates of empidoid species diversity in Madagascar. This study will contribute to critical surveys of species richness for rapidly degrading habitats in this important biodiversity hotspot. Representatives from two empidoid families, Empididae and Hybotidae were collected from Madagascar. There are eight new species of Hybos (Hybotidae: Hybotinae) from Madagascar: H. gardneri sp. nov., H. flaviarticulus sp. nov., H. verykoukis sp. nov., H. fianarantsoensis sp. nov., H. exastis sp. nov., H. triangulus sp. nov., H. angustifacies sp. nov., and H. ignotopalpus sp. nov. All species are described and male genitalia are illustrated. DNA barcoding was performed on the flies from the subfamily Hybotinae in order to infer species limits, but due to poorly preserved or degraded DNA, no definitive conclusions could be drawn. To aid identification, eight new barcodes were obtained that will be submitted to the barcode library upon publication of the new species. All data collected for the Madagascar empidoids have been recorded in a Mandala database and all images have been uploaded into Morphbank. Additionally, a LucID key is available on the Internet for species identification.

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Bilgrien, Marie Vianney. ""What do I do, Lord?"." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.

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Nicholas, Jonathan Daniel. "Lord Bute's ministry, 1762-1763." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.283515.

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Willie, Sonya. "Orphic Descent in "Lord Jim"." W&M ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626312.

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Waylett, Dianne Marie. "Does anyone know Lord Byron?" CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1998. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1507.

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McKay, Tanja. "Parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: pteromalidae, ichneumonidae) for control of house flies and stable flies (dipteramuscidae) in dairy operations in Manitoba." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ32186.pdf.

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Dooley, Laura Jones. "The Correspondence of Henry, Lord Brougham, with Henry, Lord Holland,1831-1840: Additional m.s 51564." W&M ScholarWorks, 1987. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625412.

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Lobo, Jansson Stefan. "Lord of the Rings, Lord of Nature : A postcolonial-ecocritical study of J.R.R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and its implications in the EFL classroom." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-76582.

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This essay examines J.R.R Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings through the application of a theoretical framework of postcolonial ecocriticism, endeavoring to discern the author’s concerns and the environmental and colonial underpinnings interwoven in the novel through a thematic analysis focusing on the concepts of pastoral, nature, wilderness and development. The results show that Tolkien undoubtedly projected his profound sentiments for environmental disruption as a product of a rapidly changing world during his lifetime. Although Tolkien’s trilogy is a work of high fantasy written in a different context, this essay argues that it is valid for scrutiny in relation to contemporary society. Furthermore, this study investigates the implementation of the text in the Swedish EFLclassroom with the purpose of raising students’ awareness for, and investment in the environment, whilst improving their all-round communicative skills, ultimately educating for a sustainable future.

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Miguel-Aliaga, Irene. "Spinal muscular atrophy : of flies, worms and men." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.343478.

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Macleop, E. T. "Factors affecting transmissions of trypanosomes through tsetse flies." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.654405.

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The maintenance of human sleeping sickness and nagana across sub-Saharan Africa depends on cyclical transmission of trypanosomes through tsetse flies. Previous work showed that the symbiotic bacterium Sodalis glossinidius was involved in susceptibility to trypanosome infection. Streptozotocin (a toxic analogue of the bacterium’s main food source) has been recently shown to decrease trypanosome infection rates in the offspring of treated tsetse. In the present work streptozotocin did remove S. glossinidius from the offspring of treated flies but it was not possible to generate a line of tsetse free from S. glossinidius infection. Other potential factors involved in acquisition of trypanosome infection were then examined. A range of antioxidants or cyclic GMP were shown to prevent trypanosomes death in the tsetse midgut. The process was shown to be independent of protein synthesis as D-cysteine (an unphysiological isomer of L-cysteine) also enhanced midgut infection rates. Further experiments showed that cGMP could significantly inhibit trypanosome death when fed up to 96 h post-infection, whereas antioxidants only functioned for 48 h post-infection. Moreover it was found that maturation of established midgut infections could be regulated by environmental stimuli as well as by antioxidants. Cold shock of infected flies as well as addition of L-cysteine but not D-cysteine to the bloodmeal resulted in significant increases in maturation rates, while nitric oxide synthase inhibitors reduced maturation rates. It is concluded that reactive oxygen species play a major role in killing trypanosomes entering the tsetse midgut and that cysteine containing proteins and/or nitric oxide are essential for differentiation of established midgut infections into mammalian infective salivary gland infections.

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Pitafi, Karim Dad. "Male mate choice in seaweed flies, Coelopa frigida." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.293623.

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Huang, Chongqi. "Urban ecology of necrophagous flies in Greater London." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.410056.

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Rostant, Wayne Geoffrey. "Sex-specific effects of DDT resistance in flies." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/10521.

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In D. melanogaster, resistance to DDT is conferred by the upregulation of a cytochrome P450 enzyme, CYP6G1. Resistant flies have tandemly duplicated Cyp6g1 alleles that possess the LTR (Long Terminal Repeat) of an Accord retrotransposon inserted in the cis-regulatory region, 291bp upstream of the transcription start site. This DDT resistance allele (DDT-R) has been shown to have pleiotropic fitness benefits for female flies in at least one genetic background and with evidence of sexually antagonistic selection at this locus. In this thesis, I first review the role of transposable elements in conferring insecticide resistance and the evidence to date regarding the pleiotropic effects of DDT-R in D. melanogaster. By conducting life history and behavioural tests on flies of two genetic backgrounds I examine the sex-specific effects of expressing DDT-R in the absence of DDT. Finally I develop a single locus population genetics model based on these sex-specific effects and test the model using replicate laboratory populations. The first main finding is that DDT-R incurred a male mating cost that depended on the genetic background in which DDT-R was found and that this cost coincided with strong epistasis between genetic background and DDT-R that influenced male size (Chapter 3). Following on from this result, it was confirmed that the effect of DDT-R on male size does contribute to lowered mating success but does not fully explain this fitness cost (Chapter4). Additionally, resistant males were found to have a lowered rate of courtship behaviour driven by aborted chasing of females and lower male-male aggression than susceptible males (Chapter 4). Fitness assays in wild caught strain females revealed that DDT-R confers a fecundity increase but unlike previous work, no offspring viability increases were detected (Chapter 5). Thus as with male costs, specific pleiotropic female fitness benefits to resistance depend on genetic background. Modelling of DDT-R using a simple single-locus approach (Chapter 6) provides, for the first time, a unifying explanation for past and present DDT-R frequencies in nature and in old laboratory populations. The model is consistent with an old origin for the original DDT-R mutation held at low equilibrium frequency through balancing selection of a sexually antagonistic nature. It is also consistent with continued near fixation of DDT-R long after discontinued use and matches empirical observations in laboratory populations of the Canton-S background.

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