Dec
07

Survival

Filed Under (Second Paper: Discurs Polític) by Jessica Roch on 07-12-2010

free fallThe majority of the characters presented by William Golding have an objective: survive. Many of them are presented in groups but other ones, as Sammy in Free Fall or Christopher in Pincher Martin, have to survive alone, fighting against their own mind and the tension surrounding them.

In The Lord of the Flies this element is the motif of the characters since they have to organise themselves in order to stay alive in the desert isle. Because of that, the group of children tries to establish rules and create a sort of “adult society” but it doesn’t works at all. They are still children and they often forget their first intentions. Little by little, the concept of survival becomes more and more savage, highlighting the situation of Ralph, who at the end of the novel is seen as a hunted creature.

Our question now is: Why is this theme present in William Golding? Obviously it is closely related to the War frame we have already presented. Surviving a war is a quite difficult thing, but surviving a post-war could be even more difficult. The physical and specially, the psychological pain (as the one Sammy feels in Free Fall) are concepts that easily manipulate the essence of the human being itself.

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