Lord of the Flies本科毕业论文

本 科 毕 业 论 文

题 目: Recession from Civilization to Savagery in Lord of the Flies

姓 名: 聂 霞

学 号: 20070540020

系 别: 外 国 语 学 院

专 业: 英 语

年 级: 2007 级 1 班

指导教师: 王 琪

2011年4月

内江师范学院本科毕业论文（设计）

Contents

Abstract ........................................................................................................................................................ 2 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................... 3 I. Brief Introduction to Lord of the Flies and Its Background .................................... 3

A. Brief Introduction to the Story ........................................................................................................... 3 B. Introduction to the Background ......................................................................................................... 4

II. Manifestation of the Recession from Civilization to Savagery ............................ 7

A. The Conch Shell ....................................................................................................................................... 7 B. The Fire ...................................................................................................................................................... 8 C. The \ .............................................................................................................................................. 8

III. Reasons for the Recession from Civilization to Savagery ..................................... 9

A. The Terror in the Human Hearts ....................................................................................................... 9 B. The Scramble for Leadership ............................................................................................................ 10

IV. Revelation from Lord of the Flies ........................................................................................ 10 Conclusion ................................................................................................................................................. 10 Notes.............................................................................................................................................................. 14 Bibliography ............................................................................................................................................ 15 Acknowledgements .............................................................................................. 错误！未定义书签。

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Abstract: William Golding's Lord of the Flies presents the dark side of human nature through

the experiences of a group of children cast away on a desert island. Free from the rules that the adult society has formerly imposed on them, the boys struggled with the conflicting human instincts that exist within each of them---the instinct to work toward civilization and order and the instinct to descend into savagery and violence. In the end, the evil overwhelmed the good, savagery defeated civilization. This paper analyzes how good was defeated by evil and what caused the recession from civilization to savagery.

Key Words: William Golding; Lord of the Flies; civilization; savagery

摘要：威廉·戈尔丁的小说《蝇王》通过描写一群孩子在一个荒岛上的经历展现了人性黑

暗的一面。脱离了成人社会强加给他们的规则，这群孩子与存在于他们每个人心中相互冲突的本能斗争着——努力维持文明和秩序的本能与堕落到野蛮和暴力的本能。最后，邪恶压倒了正义，野蛮打败了文明。这篇论文将分析正义是如何被打败的以及导致文明退化到野蛮的原因。

关键词：威廉·戈尔丁；《蝇王》；文明；野蛮

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内江师范学院本科毕业论文（设计）

Recession from Civilization to Savagery

in Lord of the Flies

Introduction

A group of children were cast away on a desert island, at first they could get along well with each other and their group was just like a social system which worked pretty well. However, because of the instinct to descend into savagery and violence gradually grew in some of them, the original civilization and reason were overwhelmed. Ralph and Jack represented two opposite sides, which became the main contradiction of this novel. Ralph symbolizes democracy and science while Jack, savagery and tyranny. When the two sides conflicted with each other, the former was defeated by the latter. The novel forced us to face the old topic---human nature and to think about the source of the evil of human nature.

I. Brief Introduction to Lord of the Flies and Its Background

A. Brief Introduction to the Story

In the nuclear war, a plane carried a group of boys from the south toward the evacuation of the United Kingdom. The aircraft was attacked, so it had to conduct to a forced landing on a deserted Pacific coral island. These children were temporarily absent from the civilized world. No aircraft, no adults, a lot of hard work. Human civilization was at stake. The conditions of the island were appalling, but to the lucky children who survived, a greater threat is the danger from themselves.

In the absence of adults, the children began to live on the island. Ralph was a 12-year-old son of British naval commander, better educated, with elegant manners and optimistic self-confidence, believed they could be saved by the ship from the civilized world. He used the conch to organize the scattered children throughout the island and then was elected the plenary session leader. Children under the leadership of Ralph picked fruits and lit the fire to wait for help. At first the children on the isolated island lived in harmony and life was also enjoyable for them, but with the emergence of the \were soon separated into two factions: one headed by Ralph who insisted that order should be established on the island as it is in the civilized society, such as the requirements of urine in the designated locations, raising one’s hand when they want to speak at a meeting, a fire being

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