THE LORD OF THE FLIES PRESENTATION

Introduction

Contents

8. symbols

1. Intro

2. Historical context

7. Thesis

3. author

6. analysis

4. Questions

5. Novel

1. introduction

cold war

The cold war was a state of political and military tension after the second world war between in the western bloc (Unitate states) and Eastern bloc (the sovietic union)

Historical bg

Cold WORLD

Cold WORLD

3. author

william golding (1911 - 1993)

novels

• •Pincher martin in 1955
• The Scorpion God (1971)
• Darkness Visible (1979)
• The Paper Men (1984)
• To the Ends of the Earth (trilogy)
• Rites of Passage (1980)
• Close Quarters (1987)
• Fire Down Below (1989)

Questions

What would be the most important thing for your to survive?

4. Questions

What would you do if you dropped in a desert island with other 10 people?

Questions

What kind of the society would you to stablish?

5. novel

Ralph, Jack, and another boy, Simon, set off on an expedition to explore the island.

Int he midst of a ranging war , a plane evacuatig a group of schoolboys from britain is shot down over deserted tropical island .

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cHARACTERS

Plot

aDAPTATION IN THE SIMPSONS

5.2 Precedentt

Coral island

Robinson crusoe

https://prezi.com/97rehcv9yfz6/the-coral-island-vs-lord-of-the-flies/.

Novels

Characters

pig

thesis

.” the novel “lord of the flies” is an allegory to the uncertainty of nations by the tension generated by the post conflict of World War II.

Allegory

SOCIOCRITIC

• Sociocriticism aims to bring out the relations existing between the structures of literary (or cultural) work and the structures of the society

• According to Zima, the novel is not only a reporduction of reality. It is a narrative and semantic construction.

Discourses

dEMOCRACY -- rALPH

rationalism -- simon

power -- jack

Technology -- piggy

Pedagogic -- fear --

second PART

aNALYSIS

Antecedent - Coral island

Antecedent - Coral island

I know. jolly good show. Like the coral island (pag.284)

• ““while we´re waiting we can have a good time on this island,” he gesticulated widely. It’s like in a book. At once there was a clamor- treasure island, swallows and Amazons and coral island (pag,41)

• “we got to find the others. We got to do something. Ralph said nothing. Here was a coral island. Protected from the sun, ignoring Piggy´s ill -omened talk, he dreamed pleasantly. ( pag,11)

Antecedent

the conch Symbol

• “““The being that had blown that, had sat waiting for them on the platform with the delicate thing balanced on his knees, was set apart.” (pag. 23)
• “Jack was the first to make himself heard. He had not got the conch and thus spoke against the rules; but nobody minded.”

• ““… suddenly Piggy was a -bubble with decorous excitement. S’right. It’s a shell! I see one like that before. On someone’s back wall. A conch he called I. he used to blow it and then his mum would come. ( pag 13 )

the conch Symbol

fire DISCOURSE

• Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Bash her in (pag.90)

there´s another thing. We can help them to find us. If a ship comes near the island they may not notice us. So we must make smoke on top of the mountain. We make a fire. “ A fire! Make a fire “ (pag. 46) .

• Jack says… “I agree with Ralph. We’ve got have rules and obey them.After all, we’re not savage. We´re English. And the English are best at everything. So we´ve got to do the right things “ (pag 53)

• “there´s another thing. We can help them to find us. If a ship comes near the island they may not notice us. So we must make smoke on top of the mountain. We make a fire. “ A fire! Make a fire “ (pag. 46)

Fire symbol

polite to Wild

• “The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than dream. There aren´t beast to be afraid of on this island “ ( pag. 110)

Fear discourse

• “Not them. Didn’t you hear what the pilot said? About the atom bomb? They’re all dead.” (Pag,11)

• He says he saw the beastie, the snake thing, and will it come back tonight...he says in the morning it turned them into things like ropes in the trees and hung in the branches. He says will it come back tonight ( pag. 44)

Fear discourse

• “is scientific, that’s what it is. In a year or two when the war’s over they’llbe travelling to mars and back” (pag-12)

Cientific discourse

• “we could experiment. We could find out how to make a small hot fire and then put Green branches on to make smoke. Some of them leaves must be better for that than the others” (pag.182)

• I’ve been thinking, he said about a clock. We could make a sundial. We could put a stick in the sand, and then .—“ (pag.84)

• ¡” His voice was loud and savage, and struck them into silence” “there was a ship “ (pag.92)

wild transformation

• “...hair much too long, tangled here and there, knotted round a dead leaf or twig; clothes, worn away, stiff like his own with sweat, put on, not for decorum or comfort but out of custom; the skin of the body scurfy with brine-- (pag.152)

• Jack says… “I agree with Ralph. We’ve got have rules and obey them.After all, we’re not savage. We´re English. And the English are best at everything. So we´ve got to do the right things “ (pag 53)

• “Then Piggy held out his hand. “I don’t agree with all jack said, but with some, course there isn’t a beast in the forest. how could there be? what would a beast eat? -pig- we eat pig (pag.112)

Beastie symbol

• JHe says he saw the beastie, the snake thing, and will it come back tonight...he says in the morning it turned them into things like ropes in the trees and hung in the branches. He says will it come back tonight ( pag. 44)

• “We saw your smoke. What have you been doing? Having a war or something?" (pag.282)

Others

• “We saw your smoke. What have you been doing? Having a war or something?" (pag.282)

• "The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist." (Chapter 11)

Others

• there´s another thing. We can help them to find us. If a ship comes near the island they may not notice us. So we must make smoke on top of the mountain. We make a fire. “ A fire! Make a fire . (pag. 46) Jack set on fire the island to hunt ralph “We saw your smoke. What have you been doing? Having a war or something?" (pag.282)

• “Ralph made a step forward and Jack smacked Piggy's head. Piggy's glasses flew off and tinkled on the rocks. Piggy cried out in terror: 'My specs!' He went crouching and feeling over the rocks but Simon, who got there first, found them for him. Passions beat about Simon on the mountaintop with awful wings. 'One side's broken' Piggy grabbed and put on the glasses. He looked malevolently at Jack." (Golding 71)

cONCLUSIONS

In "Lord of the Flies" is showed that fear is one of the facts for making wars.

bIBLIOGRAPHY

• • Zima Pierre (2013) Manual de Sociocritica
• Tzevetan Todorov. teorias del simbolo. 1991