Celle-ci conclut que l'environnement où évoluent les personnages de Golding est dépourvu d'éthique. Quelques principes éthiques tirés de la philosophie morale de Emmanuel Kant (1724-1804) constituent le fondement théorique de cette étude. Résumé : Cet article examine la question de l'éthique dans Lord of the Flies, un roman de l'écrivain anglais postmoderne, Sir William Gerard Golding. As such, Lord of Flies enacts, with much irony, the ethical void in which western modernity introduced humanity. This absence of ethical references mainly results from western modernity that called into question all former references that provided moral ideals. It concludes that ethics is absent in the environment where Golding's characters evolve. The study is grounded on some ethical principles drawn from the moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). This paper examines the issue of ethics in Lord of the Flies (1954) by the English Postmodern writer, William Golding (1911-1993). Keywords: Tropical island Children Beast Heart of darkness Savagery
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By this method he examines the problems of how to maintain moderate liberal values and to pursue dis tant ends against pressure from extremis ts and against the lower instincts.” (spark ) “Having clinically insulated life on the island from the world and thus contrived a microcosm, he magnifies and inspect it. More explicitly, he uses a Pacific island to symbolize the condition of humanity. What happens when boys are left to their own devices? Golding implies a radical less optimistic view of human nature and civilization.
These experiences inform his writing he was appalled at what human beings can do to one another, in terms of the wartime atrocities…and in their being innately evil” (Foster,7) Two important elements of Golding’s life and experience are powerfully reflected in Lord of the Flies – his pessimism after the Second World War and his insight- as a schoolmaster into the way children behave and function these two elements from the focus of examination in this paper. William Golding’s first-hand experience of battle-line action during World War II “was to shock him into questioning the horror of war.
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