The ability of Golding's character development, expressed the mood of the story which was very complicated and changeable all the time. Starting from the beginning, tense and scary changed to hopeful and encouraging one. Most of the time, the story was cruel and full of blood. However, in the end, there were repentance and remorse. The big change in the story will be same as climax, when Jack formed his own group to stand gainst Ralph's group. The mood changes back and forth, the change of freedom to destruction. At first, the boys enjoyed the happiness of creating their only society without any adults with their strength and thoughts. They thought they would be able to create a paradise, controlling their own society would be at a standstill. The start was smooth enough to discuss about how to create their own paradise with hope and freedom. However, the mood later changed to terror and fright as everything went wrong resulting the deah of Piggy and Simon. At the end, there was no monarchy, social structure, or paradise for the boys but all they left were death, evil, madness, and victim in the island, the results of natural human being, the evilness.
There wasn't any twist in the book but there was a process of becoming mad, which used to be normal. Thus, the formula of the mood for Lord of the Flies was (hope + freedom +peace) → (failure + anarchy + destruction).
2 comments:
I agree with you that mood keeps changing in the story, as time goes. Before the monster's appearance, the boys were positive, and the mood was peaceful. There was some conflict before the monster, but still, it wasn't as big compare to after monster's appearance.
I also agree with you that there is a huge change of mood when Ralf and Jack breaks up.
The mood became tense and soon became cruel.
Hmm, Jane, your opinion was interesting. I enjoyed reading it.
Your outline of the mood in the plotline is the way I saw it too. The change of mood followed the events into corruption and loss of innocence. Personally, I thought the whole novel was going to follow the lines of hope and peace because the beginning was so full of it. The sunny island and clear ocean seemed to vibrate with hope and fun for the kids. But like you said the plot took another course of development. Suddenly the island did not seem so welcoming. It was full of the cruel wild and bloodlust inside the savage boys. It was the loss of innocence. I think that's the major thing that effected the mood in the way you said it changed. GOood JOBB
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