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Human being

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

Analyzing William Golding we can find many more issues than those we have explained above, but as well as war works as a general background, the concept of human being is explored as an element which everything seems to float around.

In Free Fall or in Pincher Martin we discover humans in extreme situations. We can feel sympathy for them and in this way we are able to see the human response to these extreme situations. However, a question rises on our brains: how can other humans make this to their similar? Why are some humans bad creatures?

The case of The Spire is quite clear: the ambition of the cathedral’s dean in the construction of the cathedral is condemning him from the very first moment. It is curious the fact that Golding uses the symbol of a spire because symbolically this kills the main character: The spire of ambition kills him.

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Nevertheless, it is in The Lord of the Flies where we found the stronger criticism to the human being. Early in the novel, the children start to talk and be afraid of a supposed “beast”. They don’t know what is it, but they feel panic when somebody refers to it. Just one of the boys is able to discover the essence of the beast: Simon. He discovers that “the beast” are themselves, that is their own creation, that it doesn’t exist physically but psychologically. Despite of this, he is not able to tell his discover to the other children because they kill him. Even Piggy participates in this assassination. This reveals what Golding thought about the war, about the beast: the war was a consequence of humans’ inner beast.

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