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Golding's Christian Symbolism
Title: Golding's Christian Symbolism
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 3786 | Pages: 16.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Golding's Christian Symbolism
“The truth about man is not merely that he is, by nature, savage and afraid, but that he refuses deliverance, and murders the messenger of light”(Dick, “Criticism” 197). This view of our nature as human beings is based on the teachings of the Christian doctrine of original sin, a theory that has been used as a theme in many works of literature. One of these is William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies. Throughout …showed first 75 words of 3786 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 3786 total…our own original sin and depravity. Once removed from the bounds and rules of civilization we have a strong tendency to revert to uncaring and self-centered animalism. As Golding illustrates with Simon, though, there is goodness within us as well. If that goodness is reinforced, as it is in the more enlightened societies of the world, we have hope of overcoming the evil. Still, the darkness is there and we ignore it at our peril.
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