Political ideologies in the Lord of the Flies

Gál, Brigitta (2007) Political ideologies in the Lord of the Flies. Masters, Szegedi Tudományegyetem.

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Abstract

This thesis examines William Golding's Lord of the Flies as a political allegory. According to this approach the main characters stand for different type of political ideologies. I will display the two social systems functioning in the writing; democracy and totalitarianism. I will follow how the initially democratic society turns into autocracy through the novel and I will search for the reasons of that as well. Using the text of the novel and examples from our political history, I will prove that democracy fails here because of the inadequacy of the leadership of Ralph and because of the lack of power sharing.

Institution

Szegedi Tudományegyetem

Faculty

Gyula Juhász Faculty of Education

Department

Modern Nyelvek és Kultúrák Tanszék

Discipline

Teacher Training

Specialization

angol

Supervisor(s)

Item Type:	Thesis (Masters)
Subjects:	05. Social sciences > 05.03. Educational sciences
Depositing User:	Szerkesztő JGYPK
Date Deposited:	2019. Apr. 05. 08:01
Last Modified:	2019. Apr. 10. 10:45
URI:	https://diploma.bibl.u-szeged.hu/id/eprint/72733

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