Lord of the Flies - Revisited, inspired by the rec
And the ongoing animosity between the blogging community, which shows no sign of abating!
Ok, I also wanted to see if I could still write a decent blog
Here goes....Lord of the Flies is a novel (pub 1954) by Nobel Prize winning English author William Golding about a group of British boys stuck on an uninhabited island who try to govern themselves, with disastrous results. Incidentally it was also my high school English set-work, way, way back!
The boys at first, try to recreate the life, they had always know - that of order & civilization and elect Ralph to lead them forward in that direction.
However anarchy soon creeps in & rears its ugly head with disastrous consequences........
Jack, together with his band of mutinous rebels, usurps power from Ralph & within weeks, leads the group into an ever downhill spiral of antagonism, cruelty, savagery, bestiality and eventually culminates in the death/murder of two boys!
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Lord of the Flies - Revisited, inspired by the recent blog on the Pearl.
Calli ~
For you
dunya, we called it here 'dunia'
can only be a good story. I like adventures.
Must be influenced by the full moon - like Calli sez...Scary, cos in real life we could be killing each other and not tapping away at our keyboards.
J/K ~ lovely haunting sounds that poetry is sung to and very beautiful words also...thanks
Here's a free download copy - in pdf - eBook
And while we're talking books, please download "The Monk who sold his Ferrari." by Robin S. Sharma.
Another blogger wrote of this last week.
Stony ~ interesting read, hey? Wouldn't want to be part of that experiment...
Rummy ~ is it safe to call you Rummy (old habits die hard)?
To me it is about the very thin facade we call decency, law and order and how easy it could be lost.
z
Zand ~ How true....that's exactly what it is...and hence my parallel to the blogger's incidents here.
Nice to see you again Zand...
Sometimes a bit busy to post - but I still read them.
z
Zand ~ I also had a hectic 3 months, returned few weeks ago. I found I actually missed some of the old bloggers & interactions.
the pictures reminds me of Allegory Cave