THE REFLECTION OF DYSTOPIAN EXISTENTIALISM IN “LORD OF THE FLIES” BY WILLIAM GOLDING
Keywords:
dystopian existentialism, intellectuality, darkness, evil, BeelzebubAbstract
In this article we want to give a new way of perception of existential tendency which in literature is rarely defined. While we are studying existential philosophy reflected in the novel “Lord of the Flies” by the English writer-William Golding, we reveal the new type of existentialism taking the information in the article entitled “Power and Authority: An Interpretation of Golding's "Lord of the Flies"” done by David Spitz, a professor, of political science at Hunter College. We combine a literary trend-existentialism with the type of novel-dystopia and in this article we endeavor to discover the definition of dystopian existentialism and define its main concepts and features.
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