390. DSC 151/2nd Sem: Lord of the Flies

Island was Edenic. Slowly metamorphoses into a sinister place. Microcosm of the outside world. Lord of the Flies represents the serpent. Biblical dimension.

We are genetically divine but we become beastly if, moral policing, laws, beliefs in heaven and hell, education, etc is needed. Otherwise, we can become very dangerous people.

Otherwise, fear of the mythical future will break. Fear of the mythical beast grows. Civilisation of the boys break. Ralph's group shrinks. Evil takes over. Jack's camp grows. His boys colour the faces and chant.

Ralph symbolises order and harmony.

Jack is for megalomaniacal power.
He represents the destructive principle.

Simon is the saviour figure. Christ figure. Only boy in the novel who emphasises truth and encounters the beast.

Piggy is the intellectual. Piggy represents rational thinking.

Roger embodies malevolent aspects of human nature.

Sam and Eric represent crowd mentality.

Signal fire goes out.
Conch shatters.

Civility dies.
Inherent evil comes out.

Fight for leadership.
Jobs have been allocated.

Powerful social, allegorical, dystopian novel. Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser was the first powerful allegory. The exploits of a knight, chivalry and Queen are 
Written in the 20th century. Pub in 1984.
Golding received Nobel Prize for it.
Book is the trauma of the two World Wars.  The sadism in human beings. Violent cardinal motives.
Book argues the Romantic ideal of the divine original human-species.
The binary is shown.


Human potential for savagery. 

Intertextuality refers to the multiple ways in which a text meaning is influenced by many other texts.

Popular posts from this blog

15. 201. Vanishing Animals (16)

1. Who is the author of Vanishing Animals? Ans:- Gerald Durell is the author of the essay 'Vanishing Animals'. 2. Write a few words about George Durell.  Ans:- George Durell who was born in 1925 in India's Jamshedpur and died in 1995 was a British naturalist,  writer,  zookeeper,  conservationist and television presenter.  3. What is the essay all about?  Ans:- The essay is about some of the animals that face extinction.  It draws our attention to the fact that we humans are not making sincere efforts to preserve the disappearance of these animals.  4. What animals do the author try to save?  Ans:- The author tries to save animals like Pere David deer,  white tailed Gnus and others.  Pere David was discovered in China by Father David. The Gnus were slaughtered in South Africa for food. 5. Who were saved from extermination?  Ans:- Some vanishing animals which were moved to Europe were saved from extermination. One example is Per...
Read more

326. Theory 01: Eco-Criticism and Green Studies

Eco-Criticism and Green Studies Egs:- Amitav Ghosh's "The Hungry Tide" Thinkers & Theorists:- Rachel Carson, Raymond Williams, William Rueckert, Cheryll Glotfelty,  Terms:- Anthropocentrism vs. Biocentrism = Human-centered vs. Life-centered ethical framework. Anthropocene (Paul Crutzen) is about human being in the center humans cause the harm. Environmental Justice = Focuses on unequal environmental impacts on marginalised communities Bioregionalism= Organising human activities around naturally - defined ecological areas. You cohabit with Nature. Wordsworth's Pantisocracy (Gary Snyder's "Turtle Island")  Wilderness= Contested concept of pristine or pure nature untouched by humans due to super coldness, etc. Like, in parts of Canada Nature-Culture Dualism= Critique of the separation between human and nonhuman worlds Posthumanism= Reconsideration of the boundaries between human and non-human beings The Anthropocene= Study of human impact as a geologica...
Read more

350. Theory 20: Criticism is a dying Art

Theory is a very powerful tool which may make us look very cleverly scholarly.  New approaches can be welcome but traditional approaches should not vanish.  Terry Eagleton says that literary criticism is dying. For example, Woolf's essays are found no more. Humanities has now become more quantitative from last 3 decades due to enacting of positivism in social Sciences. In India, JNU shows its necessity with Nehruvian model of nation building projects everywhere even in social Sciences. JNU was part of this vision and its school of social Sciences became appendage to that. The importance of the subject is first looked at with its social scientific strain. New approaches can be welcome but traditional approaches should not vanish. A science model is needed in research - personal and factual. Deconstruction was welcome in English department rather than the department of Philosophy. Kafka's Exactitude says to determine anything as it is.
Read more