Saturday, March 1, 2008

#5

Settings in the book, "Lord Of The Flies"

During the children livesin the island, they think there are some kind of beast, the lord of the flies. And they starts to scare of it. I think this setting was the starting point for all the dreadful miseries. They afraided of thing that doesn't exist. And the children created the existence of the beast. One day, they didn't notice Simon but as the beast, and kill him. Start then, they started to loose thei mind. They turns really wild. I had said and emphasized that human's nature is cruel. But, since started to think about the story, I realized another thing. The conflicts and the killings, that didn't happened because of their vice. But it happened by their fear. Hinting, painting face, and acts like primitive, these are their living device. In the island, there are no people, and everthing is not developed. The only wat to survive in the island is to be primitive, watmeats to get energy to live. But, they fear of the existence of the beast, and there were no one who can take care of them. And scared of the existence, and did the things to survive. Also,Whether if human is vice or virtue, it's not a important thing. By periodic situation or one person's choice, we have to come and go between 'savagenes and civilization'.
Here's another setting I want to share about. The Piggy's glasses. The conch in this story symbols 'authority', but Piggy's glasses symbols 'entity' which is helpful for real life in the island. To Larph, it's the thing for 'light up the signal fire', and to Jack, it used for 'cooking meet'. To Larph and Jack, glasses are the things that they can acconplish their desire and get support from the other children. Finally the glasses bring conflicts between the two groups and even became another starting point of the miseries and the death of their friends. Glasses are for preserving eyesight, and it symbols knowledge and civilization. But if it used in wrong way, there is change in quality. And it's the message of the warning.

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