Lord of the flies

2 avril 2014

Lord of The flies was written in 1954 by William Golding.

William Golding was born in 1911 et died in 1993. He was an english writer, novelist and poet. He got the Booker Prize in 1980 and The Nobel Prize in litarature in 1983. He belongs to postomdernism (we will explain you what is this movement next week ^^). He also wrote Free fall in 1959, Darkness visible in 1979, To the ends of the earth : a sea trilogy in 1991, and a lot of other novels ..

Lord of the flies is his most famour work.

Lord of the flies is a dystopian novel which deals with a plane crash in a desert island,in which only boys children survived. At the beginning they tryed to make an organisation and elected a leader (Ralph) in order to survive together. They have to behave like adluts but they didn't succeed to get along each other.

Since they are blocked in this island, they eat animals and fruts, but over time they end up being obliged to kill each other and commit frightful facts.

This book is very difficul because children are removed of innocence and honesty, it could shocked the reader and the story has a glaucous mood. It is often compared to Robinson Crusoe's story, people tell this a "robinsonade".

This book was adapted to movie in 1990 by Peter Brook.

Here we can see that children became savages, they look miserable because they don't have any clothes, they are thins and the leader has mud on their faces.

On this picture they are three characters, Jack on the left, Ralph on the right and Piggy between us. Ralph got the power which is symbolised by a big shell, he was choosen to be the leader, but Jack desagrees with him ans dares tell his point of view. Piggy seems to be very serious because this little plumpy guy is holding the shell in his hand (we can't see it on this picture). However we can see that the others characters don't pay attention to him, it means that he is a sort of scapegoat.