“gift for the darkness”
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“Gift for the darkness”. William golding’s lord of the flies. William golding : Nobel Prize for literature. conversation with william Golding: what part did the war play in the writing of your novel?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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“GIFT FOR THE DARKNESS”
WILLIAM GOLDING’S LORD OF THE FLIES
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WILLIAM GOLDING: NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
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CONVERSATION WITH WILLIAM GOLDING: WHAT PART DID THE WAR PLAY IN THE WRITING OF YOUR NOVEL?
I don’t think I can answer that question, except in general terms and by putting it this way: in a way one saw during the war much more… what happened. All this had nothing to do, directly, with the Nazis or anything; it has much more to do with people. One had one’s nose rubbed in the human condition.
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… CONTINUED:
[During the war] I had discovered what one man could do to another. I am not talking of one man killing another with a gun, or dropping a bomb on him or blowing him up or torpedoing him. I am thinking of the vileness beyond all words that went on, year after year, in the totalitarian states.
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“LEST I SHOULD BE PHYSICALLY SICK”
It is bad enough to say that so many Jews were exterminated in this way and that, so many people liquidated – lovely, elegant word – but there were things done during that period from which I shall have to avert my mind lest I should be physically sick. They were done skillfully, coldly by educated men….
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SIMON’S ENCOUNTER WITH THE LORD OF THE FLIES…
Whether Simon’s encounter is imagined, dreamed or supernatural is not very clear…
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… THE “LORD’S” MESSAGE IS CENTRAL TO THE NOVEL:
The Lord of the Flies explains to Simon that it is useless to try to kill the beast:
“I am part of you,” he says.
Golding seems to IMPLY that no matter what name you give to EVIL: sin, devil, neurosis, beast, violence, hate, terrorism, destruction…
These traits are inside of man; we are, by nature, evil.
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MICROCOSM:
The book pictures the downfall of a small society on an unknown island:
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MACROCOSM:
It also gives a portrait of what it means to be human – in light of the atrocities of World War Two…