Essay on "An Old Study Well Told"

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ESSAY 3:
An Old Study Well Told
William R. Mueller
Of the Flies uncover the fallen and unredeemed human hearts, it sketches the enormity is of which man,
unrestrained by human and resistant to divine graces, is capable. The varying degrees of goodness as
manifested by Simon, piggy and Ralph, are simply no match for a murderer Jack or a headhunting Rodger., when
we first meet the boys recently dropped onto an island after escaping from their Bomb-ravaged part of the world,
they are still trailing paint clouds of Glory., even Rodger who shares with Jack The most diabolic potentialities of
them all, early in the novel many face of thin sheath decency and restraint; enjoying stones at one of the smaller
boys he is careful to miss, tulip understand in violet a small circle surrounding his teased victim:" here, invisible
yet strong, watch the Taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of the parents and school
and police man and the law. Rogers Aim was conditioned by a Civilization that knew nothing of him and was in
ruins. “The novel delineates the partial conditioning of the arm and the unwilling of the heart of Rodger and some
of his companions.
Lord of the Flies is, of course, more than an expository disquisition on sin. Were it only known it would have gone
virtually unnoticed. The book is a carefully structured work of art organisation-- in terms of a series of hunts-
subsidy will with progressive clarity men's essential Core. There are six stages, six hunts, constituting the darkest
voyages as each satyr she wanted us closer to natural man. To taste the hunts- with pics and boys of victims-
east field Golding’s full impact.
As Ralph, the builder of fire and Shelters, is the main constructive force on the island,, jack the hunter, is the
primary destructive force. Hunting does of course provide food, but it also gratify that last for blood. In his first
confrontation with a pig, cat fails, unable to plant his life into living flesh, to bear the sight of flowing blood, and
enable to do so because he is not far enough away from the " taboo of the old life". But under the questioning
scrutiny of his companions he feels a bit ashamed of his fastidiousness, and, driving his life into a tree trunk, if
you sleep how's that the next time will be different.
And so it is. Returning from second hunt he proclaimed that he has cut a pig’s throat. Yet he has not reached the
point of savage abandonment: We learn that he twitched as he spoke of his achievement- an involuntary gesture
expressing his horror at the deed and disclosing the tension between the old Taboo and the new Freedom. His
reflection upon the triumph, however, indicates that pangs of conscience most certainly fade before the glorious
feeling of new and devastating power: His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that
had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing,
imposed there will opponent, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink".
The third hunt is unsuccessful; the body gets away. Nonetheless it plants the seed of an atrocity previously
undreamed, and it is followed by an igneous make-believe, smoke point in which Robert, one of the younger

boys, plays pig, the Other encircling him and jabbing with their Spears. The play becomes more frenzied" with
cries of" kill the Pig! Cut his throat! Kill the Pig! Bash him in!" only a fraction of the old Taboo now remains; the
terrified Robert emerges alive but with wounded rump. what is boards the make believe is but the prelude to an
all too real drama.
IV and Ethan electrifying success, a mayhem accomplished with no twitch of conscience, no elements of
preteens. The boys Discover sow “sunk in deep material bliss",” the great bladder of her belly. Print with a row of
piglets that's left or borrowed and squeaked. “What a prize! Wounded she flees, “bleeding and mad" the Hunter
follows, where did to her in last excited by the long chase and the Drop blood. So finally falters read in a ghastly
scene Jack and Rodger ecstatically consummate their Desires:
Here, stuck down by the Heat, the sow fell and the Hunters hurt themselves at her. This grateful eruption from an
unknown world made her frantic; she squeaked and bucked and the air was full of sweat and noise and blood
and terror. Rodger ran around the head prodding with his spear whenever pig flesh appeared. Jack was on top of
the sow, stabbing downward with his knife. Rodger founded lodgement for the point and begin to push dining with
his whole weight. The spear move forward Inch By Inch and the terrified squealing become a high pitched
scream. Then Jack found the throat and The Hot Blood sprouted over his hands. The pic collapsed under them
and they were heavy and fulfilled upon her. The butterfly still danced, preoccupied in the centre of the clearing.
The fifth hunt, moving us even closer to the impulses of the human heart, it is a fine amalgam of the third and
fourth. This time Simon is at the centre of the circle, yet the person is more make believe then it was with the
heavy treated sow. Simon is mother not only without compunction but the orgiastic delight.
The final and climatic abhorrence is the hunt for Ralph it steroid will be celebrated here; suffice it to say that one
refinement not present in the Simon episode is added to stick that Roger sharpens at both ends. It had indeed be
used for the sow, one point piercing the Earth and the other supporting the severe head, but it's human use had
not yet been tested on that island paradise.
Such being Mr Golding’s art and conviction, it is little wonder that some leaders have just him offensive,
depravedly sensational, totally wicked. He has been impaled to say that many human beings, left unrestrainedly
to their own devices, will find the most natural expression of their desire to lie in human head hunting. Those who
perform that man is made in God's image will be given some pause, but reflection they will probably interpret the
novel as a portrayal of the inevitable and the ultimate condition of a world without grace. - there Huye firm that
man is basically and inherently good-- and becoming better- main simply find the Nobel a monstrous perpetuation
of falsehood.
Golding’s main offence, I suppose, is that he profane what many men hold most precious: Believe that the human
being is essentially good and the child essentially innocent. Yet his offence, as well and his genius, lies not in any
originality of view or statement but in his starting ability to make history really, social that many readers can only
drawback in terror. I would strongly affirm, however that Golding’s intention is not simply to leave us in a negative
state of Horror. Lord of the Flies has a tough moral and religious flavour, one which a study of its own title helps
make clear.
The term Lord of the Flies is the translation of the Hebrew word "Baalzebub" or "Beelzebub". The Baal were the
local nature Gods of the early Semitic peoples. In II kings1,Baalzebub is named as the god of akron. All three
synoptic gospels referred to Beelzebub; in Luke 11:15 he is called the chief of the devils. In English literature
among those who refer to him are Christopher marlowe and Robert burton, do it is left to Milton to delineate his
character at some length. Weltering site he is described as one next himself [Satan] in power and next in crime,
/long after known in Palestine, and nam'dBelzeebub." shuttle service to the great adversary kind are well known.
To disregard the historical background Golding's title, aur the place of The Lord of the Flies within the novel is to
miss a good part of the author intent, it is, indeed, tulip as nothing but horror.
At the conclusion of the food hunt, after the boys have multiparous sow, the place its head on a stick as a
sacrificial offering for some reputedly mysterious and awesome beast- actually a dead parachutist who had
plummeted to the ground now recognisable as his body Rises and Falls each time the wind field the parachute
and then withdraws from it. Meanwhile Simon, pulav for his companions and desire to protect them in the island,
leave them to search out the dark some creature. He finds himself confronted by the primitive offering the Flies,
the spilt guts, even ignoring the integrity of being spiked on a stick". As he is improved to stare at the gruesome
object , it undergoes a black, unholy transfiguration; he sees no longer just a pig head on a stick; his gaze, we