Long Quote From Literary CriticismThey did not have to fight for survival, for I did not want a Marxist exegesis. If disaster came, it was not to come through the exploitation of one class by another. It was to rise, simply and solely out of the nature of the brute. (Golding, "Fable" 42)Many critics, in spending time explaining the breakdown, talk about what the children did (or failed to do) to make the breakdown occur. The implicit assumption behind all of these explanations is that if the children had simply done something different, the breakdown might not have occurred; in other words, the beast within man can be contained under certain circumstances. But Golding's explanation provides no such hope. Disaster arises "simply and solely out of the nature of the brute.
Long Quotes From Goldings Text
"I just take the conch to say this. I can't see no more and I got to get my glasses back. Awful things has been done on this island. I voted for you for chief. He's the only one who ever got anything done. So now you speak, Ralph, and tell us what."(170)
"I'm trying to think. Supposing we go, looking like we used to, washed and hair brushed- after all we aren't savages really and being reduced isn't a game. (170)
Long Quotes From Goldings Text
"I just take the conch to say this. I can't see no more and I got to get my glasses back. Awful things has been done on this island. I voted for you for chief. He's the only one who ever got anything done. So now you speak, Ralph, and tell us what."(170)
"I'm trying to think. Supposing we go, looking like we used to, washed and hair brushed- after all we aren't savages really and being reduced isn't a game. (170)