"Lord of the Flies" is the king of the flies, derived from the Hebrew word Baalzebub. In the Bible, "Baal" is regarded as the "head of all evil". In English, "Lord of the Flies" is the king of filth and ugliness. Synonym for soul. So the ridiculous significance of the work titled "Lord of the Flies" is obvious.
The story could not be simpler. It is about a plane full of children crashing on an uninhabited island after World War X. In order to survive, children start to form small groups, and where there is a group, there must be a leader. Ralph and Jack, a "democratic party" and an "autocratic party", became the creators of separatist groups. Ralph, who had gathered everyone together, began to gain popular support and became the "king". The fat four-eyed boy became Ralph's little military division. Speaking out, everyone listened when the speaker spoke. It was more or less a prototype of a small social group, and the other king was Jack, the head of the choir who also landed on the island. Jack was different from "democracy" and he was naturally arrogant. He belonged to a practitioner, he was brave and capable, and was the core instigator of the Nazi collective unconsciousness. He formed the "Hunter faction". Without warning, these children who were not in their teens gradually became barbarians. Kill each other for fun. There is cruelty and bloody everywhere, but the glory, faith and friendship no longer exist. In the end, Ralph was betrayed, and the little friends who had fought together left one by one to join Jack, but were jealous and set the island on fire. Fortunately, seeing the smoky rescue team arrived in time for Ralph to take his life back. The film ended in Ralph’s teary eyes. The tears might be grateful and excited for his life or for the little friend who has lost his life. In silence, the small Nazi collectives who chased Ralph with sharp knives and sharp weapons came to their senses and learned how terrible this collective unconscious behavior was. This comical show was the root cause of their fall into the desert island, and the human nature struggled mercilessly. The bloody and dark side is the gunpowder for the outbreak of war.
"The barbaric nuclear war brought the children to an isolated island, but these children have reproduced the entire historical process that brought them into this situation. In the final analysis, it is not a foreign monster, but man himself turned the paradise into a massacre. Field." —Quoted from William Golding: "Lord of the Flies" preface, from the preface alone, the novel only reproduces the root of human evil, and it is the master of self-sacrifice, starting from the first madness At the beginning of the night, they have step by step towards the acts of barbarians and fell into the abyss of killing. The first paragraph of the novel seems to be a paradise. The innocent and kind-looking children do not know that they are about to meet. For what test, the original good of human nature is here, and the original evil is about to appear. The way of suppressing the first is the perfect opening show: "A blond boy slipped off the last few feet of a rock wall and began to carefully find a way. Running towards the lagoon. Even though he has taken off his school uniform sweater and let it sway in his hand at this moment, the gray shirt is still stuck to his body, and his hair is wet on his forehead. Around him, there is a long and narrow strip. The fault rock in the forest penetrates the depths of the forest, everything is bathed in sunlight."-From William Golding: The first paragraph of "Lord of the Flies".
The story sets up a series of conflicts between the original good and the original evil, human nature and animal nature, rationality and irrationality, civilization and barbarism, and the result of the conflict convincingly demonstrates the fragility of civilization and rationality and the pursuit of democratic rule of law. Difficulty, people who have sacrificed their blood for the system are like the four-eyed fat man, and those who have persisted for justice are like Ralph, which explains the reason why it is difficult for human beings to move toward autocracy and to run toward a democratic society. Similarly, democracy is on the right, dictatorship is on the left, and there is a categorical killing. In the face of desire and barbarism, why does human civilization appear to be so sloppy and vulnerable? This is exactly what "Lord of the Flies" is thinking about.
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