“THE LURE OF THE ISLAND”: THE WORKINGS OF POWER IN GOLDING’S LORD OF THE FLIES Cover Image

“THE LURE OF THE ISLAND”: THE WORKINGS OF POWER IN GOLDING’S LORD OF THE FLIES
“THE LURE OF THE ISLAND”: THE WORKINGS OF POWER IN GOLDING’S LORD OF THE FLIES

Author(s): Armela Panajoti
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: civilization; Foucault; Golding; “island lure”; power; power relations;

Summary/Abstract: Featuring a group of stranded school boys, Golding’s Lord of the Flies is concerned with how social relations are established and ordered in the absence of civilization. In this paper, I will refer to the so-called “island lure”, to argue, in Foucauldian lines, how it constructs power relations and incites power struggles. I will try to prove that “power is everywhere”, that is, despite the authority of Ralph and Jack, power is owned by the individuals, the schoolboys, and is that which causes them to erupt in new behaviours, anarchic and savage.

  • Issue Year: 25/2019
  • Issue No: 25
  • Page Range: 97-105
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: English