scholarly journals Specificity of the language means of rendering the images of characters-leaders in the parable-novel “Lord of the flies” by William Golding

2020 ◽  
pp. 190-199
Author(s):  
Ruslan A. Kuznetsov
Keyword(s):  
Charismatic Leadership ◽  
Verbal Communication ◽  
Adolescent Psychology ◽  
William Golding ◽  
Word Forms ◽  
Principle Of Duality ◽  
Lord Of The Flies ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Color Scheme ◽  
Color Psychology

The article is devoted to the study of specificity of language means of implementing the images of heroes-leaders in the framework of a work of art. The paper considers the types of leadership of M. Weber (traditional leadership, rational-legal leadership and charismatic leadership) and M.G. Berne (transformers and dealers), as well as lexemes that explicitly convey the appearance of the heroes-leaders, which implicitly reflects both the writer’s attitude to the characters and the nature of the characters themselves. The research material is the language units that is taken from the parable-novel by William Golding “Lord of the flies” and the meanings of which convey the characteristic features of the appearance of such characters as Ralph and Jack. The paper describes the color scheme (masks, clothing) from the perspective of the color psychology. It also describes non-verbal communication of children with an emphasis on the social psychology of non-verbal communication and adolescent psychology. Using a complex of emotional and evaluative vocabulary (positive and negative) when describing the appearance of Ralph and Jack indicates that the writer is trying to show his attitude to the heroes of the parable-novel “Lord of the flies”, through which the characteristic external features of political leaders (democratic and despotic) are expressed. William Golding uses the principle of duality (two principles that are either irreducible or opposite to each other) when describing Ralph and Jack. Describing Ralph, the writer uses lexemes only with a positive connotation, while when the author recreates the image of Jack, he uses only words with a negative assessment. Thus, the author of the article comes to the conclusion that the writer feels sympathy for the democratic regime, which is expressed in the image of Ralph and antipathy to totalitarianism, which is expressed in the image of Jack. In the course of this study, the authors also come to the conclusion that in the image of Jack Meridew there are typical features of another despotic leader Adolf Hitler. This conclusion can be reached due to the external description of the hero and the word forms used by him (designation of an animal with a feminine pronoun, imperatives, etc.).

scholarly journals Golding’s Narrowed Attempts at Defining Human Nature in Lord of the Flies

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-50
Author(s):  
Rabia Khan ◽  
Sajjad Ahmad ◽  
Ali Ammar
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Social Problem ◽  
Political System ◽  
Research Work ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Biological Factors ◽  
Single Character ◽  
William Golding ◽  
Lord Of The Flies

This paper is an attempt to prove the assumption that William Golding is a failure who claims to have written his novel Lord of the Flies on the idea of human nature. He considers that he wrote about human nature in general, but he is a Western and has those ideas of being superior to other people. He takes all his characters from among the English boys. Not a single character who is shown as civilized belongs to a marginalized race. This act of Golding reveals his ethnocentric attitude. He does not bother to include a female character in this novel. All his characters are male. It shows his androcentric nature. Though he tries to put the evil like every man whenever he wants to show the brutality or savagery of a human, in the form of his chosen English boys, he portrays them as the hunters of Africa or paints them with mud. In doing so, he is affiliating savagery with the blacks and Indians. Thus, he propagates the same stereotypical concept of “Orients” as uncivilized and savages. Golding relies solely on the biological factors of human nature. He ignores to consider any social problem for the conflict of the two groups of boys. These social factors may include political system, religion, or Marxism. This research work has proved that Golding’s self-critique of human nature in the novel is a failure on his part.

scholarly journals William Golding’s Lord of the Flies: A Reconsideration

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-136
Author(s):  
Mariwan Hasan ◽  
Diman Sharif
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
The Novel ◽  
William Golding ◽  
Imaginative Literature ◽  
Lord Of The Flies ◽  
In The Beginning

This paper reconsiders William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Allegorical writings can illustrate ethical, social or psychological and moral issues using the manipulation of images that have stipulated meanings other than their meanings as imitations of the actual world. Allegory has been used widely throughout history in all forms of art, and comprehensible for the reader, conveys hidden meanings through symbolic figures. Lord of the Flies had been written in relation to historical circumstances of the twentieth-century and to the personal experience of William Golding. Also, it has provided a critical analysis of the novel that treated the prominent perspective and elements in it. The novel is a parallel of life in the late twentieth century, while it looks like society a stage of enhancement in technology whereas, human morality is not completely mature yet. “Lord of the Flies is an allegorical microcosm of the world. The destruction of World War II because of the dictators who initiated this war has a profound impact on William Golding himself”. In the beginning, the paper gives an introduction to Golding’s point of view on humanity with the title of how to draw attention to me through allegory and fable, two forms of imaginative literature that encouraged the reader and listener to look for hidden meanings. Then it deals with William Golding’s Lord of the Flies from the cultural approaches of that time, who is one of the most prominent literary men of postmodernism that was famous for utilizing symbolism within the novel; “he used different kinds of symbols, characters, objects, animals, colors and setting to convey his message about his main theme”, in the last section we analyzed the postmodern features in Lord of the Flies and how they are used to depict Golding’s view. The way Golding uses allegory strengthens the symbolism of his novel. Finally, it tackles the educational value through his experiences in teaching along with critical analysis of Golding’s technique.

scholarly journals An archetype study of Lord of the Flies based on the view of Bible

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhou Yonghong
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
William Golding ◽  
Multiple Meanings ◽  
Lord Of The Flies

Abstract: Lord of the Flies is one of the most important novel written by William Golding and it contains multiple meanings. This paper aims to interpret author’s intentions through an archetype study based on the view of Bible. Through detailed analysis, it comes to a conclusion that if human wants to be rescued, we have to be aware of the evil side in us.

scholarly journals Alexander Melamid’s Portraiture of the 2010s

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-46
Author(s):  
Georgy Koshelev ◽  
Alexandra Spiridonova
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
Collaborative Creativity ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Pictorial Series ◽  
Academic Painting ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Color Scheme ◽  
Technical Features

The article focuses on a comprehensive study of Alexander Melamid’s portraiture included in his first independent project after thirty years of collaborative creativity with Vitaly Komar. Throughout the entire thirty-year period of cooperation, the painters signed their works with the Komar and Melamid trademark making it difficult to determine the artists’ individual characters. A detailed analysis of the solo works of the 60-70s, before the beginning of collaborative creativity, is presented; it helps us to detect individual traits in the works of the duet and to better identify the artists’ personalities, to reconstruct the technical features of each artist’s painting style. In 2007, Alexander Melamid began creating a large-scale series of paintings which would become his new conceptual line of creative work; later, in 2009, the artist developed and supplemented the series with portraits of Italian clergy and Russian oligarchs. Characteristic features of the Holy Hip Hop! portrait series, exhibited at the Detroit Museum of Modern Art in 2008, are studied in the article. The artist paid special attention to the psychological characters of the portrayed, the entire series is painted in one color scheme, within one scale. The pictorial series is an integral conceptual statement. The purely plastic qualities of the paintings fade into the background. They are not so important for Alexander Melamid - he uses academic painting as a tool to convey more accurately the psychology of the portrayed whom he treats with ironic interest. It is important to note that Alexander Melamid erases the line between the classical and the marginal art, just as Francois Millet did in his time. The article succeeded in updating sociocultural issues with the help of contextual comparison with portraiture by Diego Velazquez and contemporary American artist Kehinde Wiley whose creative life has deeply integrated into the socio-political realities of the United States of the beginning of the 21st century and the African-American cultural tradition. Kehinde Wiley is known for his realistic large-scale portrayals of African-Americans in poses borrowed from works of classical European painting of the 17-19th centuries. The artist openly propagandizes, deliberately emphasizing the didactic function of his paintings. It is in the context of contemporaries’ works and the political situation in the USA of the 2000-2010s that Alexander Melamid’s work should be considered.

scholarly journals GAMBARAN KEMEROSOTAN MORAL TOKOH DALAM NOVEL LORD OF THE FLIES KARYA WILLIAM GOLDING

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Neng Anis Lidiawati
Keyword(s):  
William Golding ◽  
Lord Of The Flies

Judul yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah Gambaran Kemerosotan Moral Tokoh dalam Novel Lord of The Flies Karya William Golding. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui kemerosotan moral yang digambarkan dalam novel tersebut dan juga kemerosotan moral pada tokoh novel tersebut. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode deskriptif analisis. Pendekatan yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah pendekatan sosiologi sastra. Hasil menunjukkan bahwa kemerosotan moral yang tergambar dalam novel Lord of The Flies karya William Golding meliputi perilaku kekerasan, pencurian, penggunaan bahasa yang tidak baik, mengabaikan peraturan yang sudah ditetapkan dan pembunuhan.

scholarly journals LORD OF THE FLIES: THE INNATE EVIL OF MAN

Folios ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Luis Fernando González R.
Keyword(s):  
William Golding ◽  
Lord Of The Flies

La novela El Señor de las moscas, publicada por William Golding en 1954,muestra la verdad más profunda y reveladora de la anatomía de nuestra alma.Contiene la más terrorífica y asombrosa revelación de la maldad que siempre haexistido en el corazón del hombre. Esta novela especifica los defectos de lanaturaleza humana que todavía prevalecen vivos en nuestra sociedad moderna.También presenta la eterna confrontación personal entre la b rutalidad despiadaday la benevolencia frágil del hombre. Una de estas dos fuerzas parece ser máspoderosa que la otra. El Señor de las Moscas es indudablemente parte denosotros, es el lado oscuro de nuestra identidad humana.

scholarly journals Nihilisme identitaire dans Lord of the Flies de William Golding et A Slight Ache de Harold Pinter

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (32) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Maurice Gning
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
British Literature ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
Human Identity ◽  
Harold Pinter ◽  
William Golding ◽  
Poststructuralist Theory ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Lord Of The Flies ◽  
The Individual

Two works of the mid-twentieth-century British literature form the corpus of this study, namely Lord of the Flies (1954) by the English William Golding and A Slight Ache (1961) by his contemporary and compatriot Harold Pinter. Based on the issue of nihilism as defined by Nietzsche and on the poststructuralist theory of the death of the subject, it aims to analyze how the two postmodern writers, Golding and Pinter, stress the emptiness of the human identity resulting from the collapse of the Western culture. The analysis shows that, in order to reveal this identity vacuity, the two authors make use of strategies at first sight different, but that prove to be basically similar. This identity emptiness is beforehand expressed by the emptiness of the fiction space, the isolation of characters and the justified absence of traditional points of reference that could constitute the base of the societies they attempt to form. The predictable collapse of these societies discloses the strange face of the individual behind it, and unveils the kingdom of nothingness foregrounded, in both works, by the image of darkness and chaos.

scholarly journals THE LYRICAL NOVEL LORD OF THE FLIES

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Natasha Costa
Keyword(s):  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Poetic Form ◽  
Cultural Terms ◽  
William Golding ◽  
Poetic Narrative ◽  
Lord Of The Flies ◽  
Individual Human

The academic researches on the narrative Lord of the Flies, published in 1954 by William Golding, classify it explicit or implicitly as a traditional novel. In this article we intend to show that this work, instead of narrating an individual human experience based on social or cultural terms, focus a mythological and less diffuse subjective experience by using the resources of poetry. In order to study the poetic narrative, or lyrical novel, this research will be founded on the considerations of Jean-Yves Tadié (1978) exposed in Le récit poétique and those of Ralph Freedman (1963) in The lyrical novel. This paper attempts to show that mainly space, time, myth and allegory imprints a poetic form in the essence of the narrative.

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