scholarly journals William Golding’s Apocalyptic Vision in Lord of the Flies and Pincher Martin

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-56
Author(s):  
Arnab Chatterjee
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Hard Rock ◽  
Nuclear Fallout ◽  
Hollywood Movies ◽  
The Face ◽  
Lord Of The Flies ◽  
Nuclear Warfare ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
New Millennium

Abstract Humanity has long been haunted by the notions of Armageddon and the coming of a Golden Age. While the English Romantic poets like Shelley saw hopes of a new millennium in poems like “Queen Mab” and “The Revolt of Islam”, others like Blake developed their own unique “cosmology” in their longer poems that were nevertheless coloured with their vision of redemption and damnation. Even Hollywood movies, like The Book of Eli (2010), rehearse this theme of salvation in the face of imminent annihilation time and again. Keeping with such trends, this paper would like to trace this line of apocalyptic vision and subsequent hopes of renewal with reference to William Golding’s debut novel Lord of the Flies (1954) and his Pincher Martin (1956). While in the former, a group of young school boys indulge in violence, firstly for survival, and then for its own sake, in the latter, a lonely, shipwrecked survivor of a torpedoed destroyer clings to his own hard, rock-like ego that subsequently is a hurdle for his salvation and redemption, as he is motivated by a lust for life that makes him exist in a different moral and physical dimension. In Lord of the Flies, the entire action takes place with nuclear warfare presumably as its backdrop, while Pincher Martin has long been interpreted as an allegory of the Cold War and the resultant fear of annihilation from nuclear fallout (this applies to Golding’s debut novel as well). Thus, this paper would argue how Golding weaves his own vision of social, spiritual, and metaphysical dissolution, and hopes for redemption, if any, through these two novels.

Die harte Schule der neuen Gewalt

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernhard Rinke
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Thought Processes ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Violent Conflicts ◽  
East West

This study examines the fundamental new direction in German theological peace ethics since the end of the East–West conflict. It guides the reader through the thought processes and discoveries of leading Catholic and Protestant peace ethicists and, in doing so, through the significant developments in theological peace ethics in Germany amid the tough new realities that have emerged since the end of the Cold War. In addition, the book discusses the normative premises for conduct conducive to peace which German theological peace ethics has devised in order to fulfil its responsibility to the world in the face of today’s new, violent conflicts.

Ben Shahn: Aggrieved Men and Nuclear Fallout during the Cold War

American Art ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 2-25
Author(s):  
Cécile Whiting
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Nuclear Fallout ◽  
The Cold War

scholarly journals Globalization And Locality: Global Communication And Digital Revolution In The Borderless World Era

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariesani Hermawanto ◽  
Melaty Anggraini
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Information Network ◽  
Global Information ◽  
Direct Impact ◽  
Global Communication ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
New Millennium

Globalization is a phenomenon after the Cold War and continues in the era of the new millennium. It also has a direct impact on the community at the local level. The citizens' activities are easier because everyone can always be connected through the global information network. The approach used is related to the concept of glocalization, which means a global process which is then adapted by local.This paper focuses on the link between globalization and locality in an era of a world without borders.The findings in this paper is the paradox impacts from the reciprocal reaction between global processes and local due to the development of communication and the digital revolution that have beneficial and unfavorable impacts

Deterrence Then and Now.

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
James A. Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
International System ◽  
Initial Attack ◽  
Extended Deterrence ◽  
The Us ◽  
Nuclear Attack ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Cold War

Abstract: Against the backdrop of an international system becoming more confrontational in nature, the subject of deterrence is back again. This article provides an overview of the nature of the deterrence problem during the Cold War period and today. While the broader circumstances have changed markedly, today, the central issue of deterrence remains the same as in the Cold War: how to maintain the credibility of the American threat to employ nuclear weapons in the defense of allies in the face of adversaries that can retaliate with devastating nuclear attacks against the US itself. There is little doubt about the threat of the US or other nuclear powers to retaliate in the event of a nuclear attack against their own homelands, so long as those retaliatory forces can survive the initial attack. The problem is the credibility of US extended deterrence.

Changes in the Nomenclature of the American Left

2009 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-100
Author(s):  
RHODRI JEFFREYS-JONES
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Socialist Party ◽  
Google Books ◽  
The Face ◽  
Frequency Survey ◽  
Socialist Party Of America ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
American Left

A frequency survey of Google Books and other digital sources indicates that in political terminology the use of the phrase “American socialism” yielded to “American left” in the course of the twentieth century. Reasons for this include the tactical and personal ambitions of reformers who saw advantage in dropping the socialist tag in the face of domestic antisocialism. In mid-century, domestic antisocialism revived both in extremist rhetoric and in mainstream Republican charges of “creeping socialism.” The Cold War also played a role in changing the nomenclature balance, as it led to the identification of American socialism with the creed of the Soviet adversary. At the same time, a broadening in the left's agenda beyond the election platforms of the Socialist Party of America contributed to the change. The nomenclative “-ism” failure is significant as an indicator of left tendencies because it relates to perceptions of the failure of socialism itself.

scholarly journals Bacillus anthracis - As Biological Weapons

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 74-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr Daniszewski
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Bacillus Anthracis ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Biological Weapons ◽  
The Face ◽  
New Form ◽  
The Cold War

Terrorism is defined as use of unlawful violence or threat of unlawful violence to indulge fear; intended to coerce or to intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are generally political, social or religious. Bioterrorism is terrorism by intentional release or dissemination of biological agents, mainly bacteria or viruses. Use of biological weapons is attractive from the terrorists’ point of view because of low production costs, major range and easiness of transmission. The first mention of the use of primitive biological weapons date back to the 6th century. Use of plague-infested corpses as offensive means in the 14th century caused a spread of bubonic plague through the whole Europe. The biggest development of biological weapons took place in the interwar period and in the cold war era. Biological weapon trails and research were conducted by super powers such as USSR, UK, USA and Japan. At the beginning of the 20th century a new form of bioterrorism occurred, which put humanity in the face of a terrifying threat.

scholarly journals Rethinking the Palestinian Problem and the ‘Right Strategy’ for Palestinian Liberation

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (Summer 2021) ◽  
pp. 11-25
Author(s):  
Berdal Aral
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
United Nations ◽  
International Peace ◽  
Regional Organizations ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Occupied Territories ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Cold War

The Palestinian tragedy is not simply a matter of one nation-state suppressing another nation that has been deprived of its legitimate right to establish its own state. It is also an ‘international problem’ granting that it has regional, international and global dimensions which implicate the hegemonic world system. Besides, Israel’s aversion to a peaceful posture vis-à-vis the outside world is a threat to international peace and security as defined in the Charter of the United Nations. An emancipatory approach to the Palestinian problem requires that the narrative about the ‘two-state solution’ be abandoned given that it has become a rhetorical shield for international society’s silence in the face of the Israeli fait accomplis in occupied territories. The Arab and the Muslim world, alongside the rest of international society, should no longer view Israel as a ‘normal’ state. Rather, the world ought to consider acting collectively to impose economic, financial, military, political/diplomatic, and cultural embargo against this aggressive, expansionist, and racist state through the United Nations and a host of other international and regional organizations, as was the case vis-à-vis the Apartheid South Africa during the Cold War.

scholarly journals Podcast: How the Cold War Drove Atmospheric Science

Eos ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Lipuma
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Atmospheric Science ◽  
First Episode ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Special Series ◽  
Nuclear Fallout ◽  
The Cold War

In the first episode of a special series, AGU’s Third Pod from the Sun traces a path from nuclear fallout detectors to modern-day meteorology instruments.

The New Old Imperialism in the Arabian Peninsula

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-116
Author(s):  
Steven C. Caton
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Cold War ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Proxy War ◽  
The Face ◽  
Hardt And Negri ◽  
The Cold War

Abstract This essay argues that the horrific war in Yemen (2015–present) waged by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates against the Houthis who control the northern part of the country is not really a Sunni-Schi’a conflict or a proxy war against Iran or a replay of the Cold War—all of which have been put forward to explain it—but rather is better understood as the actions of belligerent imperialist powers located in the Arabian Peninsula, acting in their own right (rather than as puppets of Western powers). Such an explanation, however, flies in the face of what we have understood imperialism to be historically. This essay looks at two understandings of imperialism, one coming out of Marxist theory and another out of a Foucauldian understanding of power as developed by Hardt and Negri in their book Empire (2000), and then goes on to show that both are helpful, though in different ways, in explaining the Yemen war as an imperialist intervention.

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