“Beezlebub” is a Hebrew name for the devil and translated, it literally means “lord of the flies”. Imagine what a novel, called, The Lord of the Flies is about, particularly one written in the early Cold War Era. At that time, anxiety about nuclear holocaust and the destructive competitiveness between the Communist East and Democratic West were everybody’s reality. William Golding not only imagined the potential of such a novel, but in 1954 he wrote it, calling it, The Lord of the Flies.
Exploiting the nerve-wracking tension of the Cold War, Golding sets his novel on an island that becomes a microcosm of the world. Rather than people worrying about atomic warfare, they are in the middle of such a war and are desperately trying to send British children to safety. However, a plane crash onto the island strands the children there, where they do indeed, find a Beezlebub of their own making. This is foreshadowed by the imagery presenting the way the plane scars the island through destroying its vegetation,__________.
Golding is concerned with the evil within all human beings: the evil that lets weapons like atomic bombs loose, the evil that makes humans want to oppress other humans and the evil that, if unfettered, destroys all goodness and all creativity. In …show more content…
As such, the themes that are projected include The Destruction of Innocence and Goodness and Bestial Behaviour Versus that Governed by Laws and Morality. Paradoxically, Golding shows how a child can weep, “for the end of innocence, the darkness of a man’s heart,” while at the same time symbolise the hope that such a realisation can bring for
Exploiting the nerve-wracking tension of the Cold War, Golding sets his novel on an island that becomes a microcosm of the world. Rather than people worrying about atomic warfare, they are in the middle of such a war and are desperately trying to send British children to safety. However, a plane crash onto the island strands the children there, where they do indeed, find a Beezlebub of their own making. This is foreshadowed by the imagery presenting the way the plane scars the island through destroying its vegetation,__________.
Golding is concerned with the evil within all human beings: the evil that lets weapons like atomic bombs loose, the evil that makes humans want to oppress other humans and the evil that, if unfettered, destroys all goodness and all creativity. In …show more content…
As such, the themes that are projected include The Destruction of Innocence and Goodness and Bestial Behaviour Versus that Governed by Laws and Morality. Paradoxically, Golding shows how a child can weep, “for the end of innocence, the darkness of a man’s heart,” while at the same time symbolise the hope that such a realisation can bring for