William Golding's Lord Of The Flies

Gender equality has come a long way since it was first introduced. As such, the idea of equalizing the sexes has developed and strengthened over years of protests, arrests, uprisings, and rebellions. Every century, ideas about equality, men being less domineering, more caring and less animalistic have developed and merged into everyday life and their behaviour is not as primarily distinctive. One novel that does not distribute this idea and its attributes correctly is William Golding’s ‘Lord of the flies.’ Since it was written in a time where men were dominant, it does not properly reflect on how society is in the 21st century today Golding’s novel should not be studied in schools because it portrays incorrect ideas of how men and young boys …show more content…
Lord of the Flies is a novel that displays this incorrectly because it teaches outdated ideas of masculinity. Golding’s novel may be entertaining but has a darker meaning that the reader might not be able to correctly pick up on. He uses the worldwide problem and emphasises it. Because of that, the novel distributes incorrect ideas and encourages the reader to act in the animalistic manner. An example that Golding uses to express this concerning matter is when Roger, a ‘bigun’ in jacks tribe squashes Piggy with the boulder. This is an example of when the boys go savage and do not have the law, or rules to stop them doing these demonic acts of violence. Golding shows a moment where toxic masculinity is a key issue in the book when he states in the novel “Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law.” In this part of the novel, Roger has the violent urge to hurt the littlun, which displays toxic masculinity, and the ‘taboo of old life’ is the only thing stopping Roger from injuring the littluns, and if there were any rules on the island, they were easily overruled by other …show more content…
Why? Although Golding’s novel may have numerous recommendations and the reader’s award, those references were made by adults for adults. Consequently, this book is not for children and young adults who mirror everything they see on references like Fortnite or Call of Duty, or the current flossing craze and the best mates dance. Lord of the Flies is inappropriate for school study because it teaches outdated ideas of masculinity. And with children’s susceptible minds today, do you really want our generation to live in a world where violence and men wrongdoing women is written about as it is a field of daisies? Do you want the sons, our generation to be the next genocidal maniacs? I didn’t think so. Lord of the Flies distributes an inaccurate idea of how men and boys should treat each other and treat women. These sorts of books are one of the countless reasons men have grown up thinking that molesting, abusing and kidnapping women is acceptable because they have grown up supposedly “knowing” that they’re doing the right thing from these unacceptable novels and references. These sort of genres of books should not be even sold in book shops for young adults because they distribute fear and as I said before, toxic