Thoughts on this masterpiece?
Heavy-handed and it will always be high school-core but it's not a bad read. It's definitely memorable.
A little heavy handed with the symbolism.
I don't like how it demonized the survival instinct, and the desire to seek out and destroy things you're afraid of. Parables like this always feel really flimsy and unsatisfying to me; you can 'prove' anything in a fiction where you're pulling all the strings.
island of doctor moreau 1000 times better
>>7840926
>kids book
>ass rape a pig with a spear
Why are bongs such degenerates?
>>7840975
You need to give a "but" or an "is" in that sentence buddy.
>>7840926
You should check out his lesser read work 'The Inheritors,' great prose experiment and better take on primitivism
>>7840926
My english teacher thinks Piggy deserves to be called a Christ figure more than Simon, what do you think?
>>7841080
I don't.
Therefore I amn't.
Golding is a great, underrated writer (underrated despite winning the Nobel). His prose is as lean, dense, and hard as can be. In every book of his that I've read, there is a stretch of writing that is spine-tingling astonishing. I agree that The Inheritors is superb. Also recommend The Spire, Pincher Martin, and the supremely creepy Darkness Visible.
>>7841080
The boy they killed on the beach is a better Christ figure d e s u than piggy or Simon
But the truth is that there's no redemption for anyone on the island
