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1. www.enotes.com › topics › lord-of-the-fliesGolding's Depiction of Human Nature in "Lord of the Flies"

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   Oct 3, 2024 · In Lord of the Flies, William Golding explores the theme of inherent human evil, suggesting that without societal structure, people revert to savagery. The novel, influenced by...

2. www.litcharts.com › lit › lord-of-the-fliesHuman Nature Theme in Lord of the Flies - LitCharts

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   Golding's underlying argument is that human beings are savage by nature, and are moved by primal urges toward selfishness, brutality, and dominance over others. Though the boys think the beast lives in the jungle, Golding makes it clear that it lurks only in their hearts.

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   Lord of the Flies. "The theme is an attempt to trace the defects of society to the defects of human nature. The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system however apparently logical or respectable." —William Golding.

4. www.tandfonline.com › doi › fullDefects of (Human) Nature? Cognitive Biases in Golding’s

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   Nov 20, 2023 · Golding’s own stated aim was to “trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature” (qtd. in Epstein 288), as his active service in World War II led him to conclude that “the condition of man was to be a morally diseased creation” (qtd. in Reiff 29).

5. interestingliterature.com › 2021 › 05A Summary and Analysis of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies

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   May 11, 2021 · Golding’s working title for his novel, Strangers from Within, makes it clear that the devil – that ‘Lord of the Flies’ – is within us, all of us, rather than outside, elsewhere.

6. www.jstor.org › stable › 4637248Power and Authority: An Interpretation of Golding's 'Lord of ...

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   than that which explicitly engaged Golding in Lord of the Flies. I n a statement to the American publishers of his book, Golding described the theme of Lord of the Flies as an attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature. The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the

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   What was Golding's goal in tracing the defects of society?

   • Golding’s own stated aim was to “trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature” (qtd. in Epstein 288), as his active service in World War II led him to conclude that “the condition of man was to be a morally diseased creation” (qtd. in Reiff 29).

   Defects of (Human) Nature? Cognitive Biases in Golding’s

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   Why does Golding create a human nature laboratory?

   • By leaving a group of English schoolboys to fend for themselves on a remote jungle island, Golding creates a kind of human nature laboratory in order to examine what happens when the constraints of civilization vanish and raw human nature takes over.

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   What is Golding's underlying argument?

   • Golding's underlying argument is that human beings are savage by nature, and are moved by primal urges toward selfishness, brutality, and dominance over others. Though the boys think the beast lives in the jungle, Golding makes it clear that it lurks only in their hearts. Compare and contrast themes from other texts to this theme…

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   What has Golding forgotten about nature?

   • For what Golding has forgotten is that a state of nature is not neces- sarily a state of political and moral innocence. The boys who inhabited the island did not spring up full-blown, as did Athena from Zeus's head. They were the carefully chosen products of an already established middle-class society.

   Power and Authority: An Interpretation of Golding's 'Lord of the Flies'

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   What if Golding had crafted a different narrative?

   • As a fiction writer, Golding could have crafted a very different narrative than the one he did, in which the boys are rescued in their darkest hour—reduced to stereotypical savagery, intent on murder, setting fire to their home—thus ensuring the whole affair serves as a disillusioning failure.

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   What was Golding's thesis in Lotf?

   • Golding’s thesis in LotF was that “you could have taken any bunch of boys from any country and stuck them on an island and you would have ended up with mayhem” (Golding and Baker 136), a sweeping generalization that infuses LotF with its grim relentlessness.

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8. www.jstor.org › stable › 27795923LORD OF THE FLIES: FOOL'S GOLD? - JSTOR

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   criticisms of Golding's books and goes on to set the sober and laudatory tone of almost all subsequent English and American criticism of Lord of the Flies. The theme is defined by Golding himself ("an attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature"); the symbolism is worked out ("'The