A Common Bond and a Blurred Reality
Each and every day people experience some sort of negativity, this negativity can take many forms: the form of a government weighing down on its people, or simply one-on-one negativity caused by bullying and ridicule. When this negativity reaches a certain point, it causes the victims of the negativity, ultimately, to crumble. Throughout the novel, Lord of the Flies, both the ideas of a weak and failing government and a bullying victim are portrayed. Each of these ideas helps to bring the novel to conclude with a theme, a loss of innocence. With the lost of the innocence, the children in the novel become more senile and bring the negativity into the novel. Though the ideas are quite different, the negativity that each generate is a common bond to produce the central theme of this site, to analyze certain aspects of negativity in the novel.
Throughout this site, different aspects of Lord of the Flies are analyzed to depict how negativity can be seen throughout the entirety of the book. The symbol we chose to represent our website is the broken glasses, which symbolize how society represented in the novel is blurred, broken and fragmented. For example, the world that Piggy lives in is not a perfect world, or a world that is hate-free, it is a world that is filled with hatred because other people bullied him and put him down intensely. The negativity that he endures is not ideal and thus causes the reader's perception of him to become blurred since they are not seeing him for who he truly is. Likewise, the effects of a failing government and a weak leader on its people are quite negative because they do not outwardly project a feeling of security amongst the civilization of the people. This struggle to satisfy can be seen in Lord of the Flies when the boys struggle to deal with authority, since no adults are with the boys. This common bond, of a blurred reality and negativity, help to construct the basis for what this site focuses on, as well as giving two equally in-depth depictions of Lord of the Flies.
Throughout this site, different aspects of Lord of the Flies are analyzed to depict how negativity can be seen throughout the entirety of the book. The symbol we chose to represent our website is the broken glasses, which symbolize how society represented in the novel is blurred, broken and fragmented. For example, the world that Piggy lives in is not a perfect world, or a world that is hate-free, it is a world that is filled with hatred because other people bullied him and put him down intensely. The negativity that he endures is not ideal and thus causes the reader's perception of him to become blurred since they are not seeing him for who he truly is. Likewise, the effects of a failing government and a weak leader on its people are quite negative because they do not outwardly project a feeling of security amongst the civilization of the people. This struggle to satisfy can be seen in Lord of the Flies when the boys struggle to deal with authority, since no adults are with the boys. This common bond, of a blurred reality and negativity, help to construct the basis for what this site focuses on, as well as giving two equally in-depth depictions of Lord of the Flies.