The mood of this novel is very negative. The novel is serious overall, and not much joy or positive feelings can be discovered within the entire novel.
I would say that the mood is depressing, gloomy, desolate, cruel, and so on.
What a dark story.
Starting off from many boys being stranded on an island, we are immediately swept off to the point where a boy has gone missing after a forest fire. From the beginning of the story nothing seems very bright.
Next thing we know, Jack is starting to feel some kind of ecstasy in his hunting, and Ralph is having a very unsuccessful time in building huts along with Simon and the others. Jack and Ralph have something somewhat like a conflict, and Jack shows the first signs of potential violence. The story is getting darker by the page.
After that, we have the infamous incident where Jack leaves the fire to go out while a ship passes by just so that he can kill a pig. Jack and Ralph are having some major frictions going on now. Also, it seems like the hunters are starting to like the taste of bloodspill. Am I the only one who is finding this creepy?
Later on in the story, one of the little boys says that he saw a beast come out of the water. The boys dismiss this statement, but still it makes an impression on them, leaving them uneasy. By the terror of a beast, the group is cracking apart: Jack and Ralph are getting more and more distance between themselves, with the boys each following either one of them. I can't say that this is a happy sight.
Continued from the beast chat from above, the twins claim to see a beast during their night watch: which in fact was a dead man in a parachute. Ralph and Jack lead the boys to the mountain where the twins glimpsed the beast, and their struggle for power becomes more and more evident. Eventually, they go up and see what they think is a beast, which is actually the dead body and his parachute casting distorted shadows. The boys excape and run to the camp. Evrything seems to be going downhill.
Soon enough after the encounter with the so called beast, Jack claims Ralph is unworthy of leader. However, nobody vote Ralph off chief, so Jack stomps away to another side of the island. Other boys follow Jack soon, and Ralph become depressed. Afterwards, Jack's tribe kill a sow, and stick its head upright on a stick. It seems like things are getting pretty ugly now. Later, Jack invites Ralph's group to a feast, and Simon confronts the head of the sow that now swarms with flies. Simon sees an apparition, which is called the Lord of the Flies, and soon he faints.
Later on, Simon awakens and goes to the mountain. There, he frees the body of the dead man in the parachute and he goes back towards Jack's group to tell them the truth of the imaginary beast. Ralph and Piggy have joined the feast. Then, the weather is getting harsh. The boys are getting nervous about the beast again, when Simon appears. However, nobody recognizes him, and poor Simon is murdered by the boys...
I'm stopping the summary here. The story is very gloomy and dark up to this point in the story, and it gets more gruesome and tragic as the story develops the climax. By the resolution, the mood is overwhelmingly dark and desperate. I can't help but say that more than being saddened by this mood, I feel disgusted. I just have to say that this story is so realistic, it makes you feel depressed by the end.
No comments:
Post a Comment