LORD OF THE FLIES: A NARRATIVE OF HUMAN ESSENCE AND THE REALISTIC STORY OF THE DICTATORSHIP AGE

Authors

  • Vedi Ashkaroglu

Keywords:

Lord of the Flies, Violence, Savagery, Human Nature

Abstract

Lord of the Flies is an anti-utopic (dystopic) novel by the English author William Golding, who wrote about how human‘s primitive aspect can peep out by portraying kids whose ages vary from 5 to 12 on a deserted island. That kids are chosen as the characters of the novel makes it possible to observe in an empirical way the human nature in its nakedness far away from civilization and what it offers with its norms, education and social intitutions. The island, as a space, is significant for it offers a clear vision of how primitive instincts can appear when there is no outside interference. In our article, first we have made a theoretical discussion on primitive aspect of humans and then analysed how they might become savage in a setting away from civilization. In our analysis, we have found out that human nature is likely to transgress into savagery in a setting devoid of laws, moral norms and social institutions. The reason why we have chosen such a topic is directly related to a need to better understand the recent devastating violence and hatred, which ravage our world and close geography in particular.

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Published

2016-06-20

Issue

Vol. 19 No. 19 (2016): GULANI (Linguistics, Literature Studies, History and Education)

Section

Literature Studies

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