LORD OF THE FLIES Flashcards
….writes Lord of the Flies in early 1950s, based on his experience with the real-life violence and…..of ….
- > William Golding,
- brutality,
- World War II
During their first days on the deserted island the children’s life is well organized in that they elect Ralph as their new leader, work together toward 2 common goals…., erect shelters, gather food and water, keep the fire. They use the ….as a symbol of authority
- to have fun and to be rescued by maintaining a constant fire signal,
- conch
In Lord of the Flies, the human instinct descending into savagery, violence, and chaos is shown in the fact that …..
->they begin to lose discipline, laziness and hedonism(chu nghia khoai lac)
The message of Lord of the Flies is: All humans have a dark side that can cause a breakdown of society’s ethical standards if this dark side …one’s reasoning and right thinking.
->overcomes
William Golding is …., who was…. in 1983.
- > one of the most acclaimed writers of the second half of the twentieth century,
- awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
Briefly, Lord of the Flies is about……
->a group of English schoolboys left on a tropical island after their plane is shot down during a war
Lord of the Flies is told from the point of view of the third person because ….
->the narrator stands outside the story to describe the characters and their actions. The narrator knows all the minds of the characters
William Golding is one of the most acclaimed writers of …..
->the second half of the 20th century
William Golding was awarded …in 1983.
->the Nobel Prize for Literature
In Lord of the Flies, Simon is killed …
->because he tries to approach the boys, convey them the messages about the beast, but the boys are at peak of savagery and they mistake Simon for the beast.
Analyse the human civilized instinct in Lord of the Flies
The human civilized instinct is showed when the boys live together at first. They work together towards common goals. They play together and work to erect shelters, gather food and water, keep the fire alight. They use the conch as a symbol of authority and obey the leader.
The setting place of Lord of the Flies is a…
->deserted tropical island
One of the themes of Lord of the Flies is …
->civilization vs. savagery, which means the struggle of the boys between civilizing instince-the impulse (su thoi thuc) to seek rules, behave morally, and act lawfully-and the savage instinct –the impulse to seek brute(suc vat) power over others, act selfishly, scorn(khinh bi) moral rules, and indulge in violence.
The signal fire in Lord of the Flies symbolizes ….
->the boy’s wish to come back to the civilized world
Modernism is marked by …
A break with the sequential, developmental, cause-and-effect presentation of the “reality” of the realist fiction, toward a presentation of experience as layered, allusive, discontinuous.
