Monday, December 2, 2013

fear, anger, hate

Over the past week i completed reading Lord of The Flies and I have to say, I wasn't  crazy about the way it was all resolved. I'm not saying I could come up with a better one, I'm just saying that it felt mediocre to me. In the last pages, the chief and his gang are hunting ralph when ralph stumbled upon the beach and "A naval officer stood on the sand, looking down at ralph in wary astonishment."(Golding 205). However, This may have a much deeper meaning that my fairly literal mind cannot comprehend, I am not a nobel prize winning allegorist like golding.
I think that the chase towards the end might symbolize the struggle of A country to find and destroy a single person or country, whilst forgetting why they need to destroy them at all. "'but I've done nothing,' whispered Ralph, urgently. 'I only wanted to keep a up fire!'" (Golding 194). This really exemplifies most war and anger and hate. after awhile you forget why you hate someone, you just know that you do. I don't mean that all wars are started and prolonged for no reason. I mean that much hatred is caused by tiny, easily forgotten things.
While on the topic of hate, Ralph has an outburst on page 190 that I believe, is very allegorically significant. "a sick fear and rage swept him fiercely he hit out at the filthy thing in front of him that bobbed like a toy and came back, still grinning to his face, so that he lashed and cried out in loathing" (Golding 190) This is representative of how fear and anger  only worsen your situation, when ralph was angry, he hit the skull, only to bruise his  knuckles and have no effect on what he hates. and when the skull broke and laid on the ground smiling, that symbolizes that evil feeds off of hate, he likes it, because the grin widened to six feet across.