Instinct or society?: a Rouseauist analysis of corruption in William Golding's Lord of the flies

Al-Zamili, Adnan

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dc.contributor.author	Al-Zamili, Adnan	de
dc.date.accessioned	2018-04-25T07:08:54Z
dc.date.available	2018-04-25T07:08:54Z
dc.date.issued	2015	de
dc.identifier.issn	2300-2697	de
dc.identifier.uri	http://www.scipress.com/ILSHS.58.155.pdf
dc.identifier.uri	https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/56960
dc.description.abstract	The present study argues that William Golding's Lord of the Flies can be read as a manifest for the natural degeneration of human beings, and that human beings are violent and competent by nature. In doing so, the present article, firstly, draws upon the Hobbesian philosophy of human nature and how it is in conflict with the related ideas of Rousseau. The article, then, analyzes certain elements of the novel so as to show the Hobbesian ideas behind the novel where there is a society of children and the upcoming relations of power and individual desires. The article afterwards argues that human nature, against what the author declares in the Hot Gates (1965) as the degenerated human nature, is not naturally degenerating, but through society this savagery of human being takes place. Ideas of Rousseau are then used thereupon for backing this very argument. Golding's novel launces attack on Rousseau's ideas that society is the agent of corruption in beings.	en
dc.language	en	de
dc.subject.ddc	Sociology & anthropology	en
dc.subject.ddc	Philosophie	de
dc.subject.ddc	Philosophy	en
dc.subject.ddc	Soziologie, Anthropologie	de
dc.title	Instinct or society?: a Rouseauist analysis of corruption in William Golding's Lord of the flies	de
dc.description.review	begutachtet (peer reviewed)	de
dc.description.review	peer reviewed	en
dc.source.journal	International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences
dc.publisher.country	CHE
dc.source.issue	58	de
dc.subject.classoz	Kultursoziologie, Kunstsoziologie, Literatursoziologie	de
dc.subject.classoz	Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Literature	en
dc.subject.classoz	Philosophy, Ethics, Religion	en
dc.subject.classoz	Philosophie, Theologie	de
dc.subject.thesoz	Literatur	de
dc.subject.thesoz	Instinkt	de
dc.subject.thesoz	instinct	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Rousseau, J.	en
dc.subject.thesoz	literature	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Roman	de
dc.subject.thesoz	Gesellschaft	de
dc.subject.thesoz	Korruption	de
dc.subject.thesoz	Rousseau, J.	de
dc.subject.thesoz	society	en
dc.subject.thesoz	corruption	en
dc.subject.thesoz	novel	en
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0	en
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0	de
internal.status	formal und inhaltlich fertig erschlossen	de
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dc.type.stock	article	de
dc.type.document	journal article	en
dc.type.document	Zeitschriftenartikel	de
dc.source.pageinfo	155-158	de
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internal.identifier.classoz	10216
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dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ILSHS.58.155	de
dc.description.pubstatus	Published Version	en
dc.description.pubstatus	Veröffentlichungsversion	de
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