Everyone who reads Lord of The Flies should also read about the Tongan Castaways to understand the difference between actual human nature and a very popular myth.
Or between human nature and the conditioned behaviour of English public schoolboys
rule of thumb, any debate where one side has evidence and it’s own academic field and the other one has a fictional story is not a debate.
damn, never heard of that. Very interesting read
I would be curious if groups would have formed had twenty or more people been shipwrecked instead of a small group.
That would indeed be fascinating, the dynamic would be different. However from everything we know it’s sensible to assume it would’ve worked as well, given an island of sustainable size. It would most probably follow more of a village dynamic.
Too many people think of Lord Of The Flies and the Stanford Prison Experiment (both nonsense as we know today) and believe they understood human nature, embittered. This annoys me.
One is a comment on society and the other is some teenage boys surviving a year on their own.
Wow, this is so cool. I hadn’t heard of that, thanks for sharing
See if a teacher did that for real today nobody there would laugh.
Not because it isn’t funny but because most of them can’t read and wouldn’t get it! 🥁Lord of the Flies was written when Great Britain was seriously reconsidering colonialism in light of WW2.
The dominant popular theory of colonialism was that of bringing religion and culture to the unwashed masses. Sure it was lucrative, but that is generally rich people stuff. Hitler had recently turned that up to eleven and gave a lot of the western world pause.
Your average Joe started to wonder what exactly they were exporting.
Poor Piggy…
Sucks to your assmar.
Love that book. Really picked up speed at some point and I had to finish it, then ugly cried at the end
That’s pretty lit alright.
What is the shell?
It’s the conch.
The Conch!
Is this a Lord of the Flies joke or a immortal snail joke?
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Don’t be Piggy
Lord of the Flies was explicitly about boy schools, not about human nature in general
Not even about boys’ schools in general, but about the English schooling system, and the way it conditioned a culture of violence and domination.
It’s totally fucked
Thanks. I couldn’t think of the right way to put it
