jaxtronaut:

jenniferrpovey:

sophiamcdougall:

Spoiler: they made a pact never to argue and took self-imposed time-outs when they lapsed. One broke his leg and they cared for him so well it healed perfectly. They planted a vegetable garden and kept their spirits up singing along to a guitar they fashioned from driftwood and a coconut shell.

(Article is weirdly focused on the white guy who rescued them, though.)

The point of Lord of the Flies is not “Humans do terrible things without laws”

It’s “We’re raising our boys to be little terrors, why don’t we stop.”

Most works of fiction like Lord of the Flies, Heart of Darkness, Far Cry 3, etc. are misinterpreted to mean “human beings are intrinsically evil and will go wild without the laws of society to keep them in check” when the real message is more along the lines of “privileged white men are out of touch and often have unresolved anger issues, so when they are removed from their comfortable ‘civilized’ world, they turn into helpless, emotionally stunted animals ruled entirely by their id”

 William Golding was a pretty bleak man, & wrote from a pessimistic point of view.