Totemism, Homoeroticism, Sexual repression: their relation to the issue of power and civilization in William Golding's Lord Of The Flies.

Title: Totemism, Homoeroticism, Sexual repression: their relation to the issue of power and civilization in William Golding's Lord Of The Flies.
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Totemism, Homoeroticism, Sexual repression: their relation to the issue of power and civilization in William Golding's Lord Of The Flies.

#Golding's LOTF is one of his most thought-provoking work and by far the most debated. In LOTF the author/narrator is absent. In the matter of style, therefore it is a romance. The issues that it brings forth under the façade of boys' adventure-romance hit hard the traditional perception of human nature and its relation to civilization. It is beyond the need of any proof that LOTF works as a modern allegory. It raises …showed first 75 words of 490 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 490 total…the island, is in tatters - the bombs, the gunship and the destroyed airplane: war is raging. Thus apparent civilization and apparent primitivism is shown to be the extensions of the same line: only looked at from different coordinates. It indeed leaves us with a bleak message, the futility of existence: "what is anything at all?" [this is the abstract of a pepr with the same title:i seek comments first, whole essay can come later]

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