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"Lord of the Flies"

William Golding

How can it apply to literature?

Author: The past experiences of the author really show in this book. Golding was part of the British Royal Navy during WWII. After his service he said, "I began to see what people were capable of doing". This outlook shows in Lord of the Flies. The author's experience in seeing, first hand, the atrocities of war shaped his world view and eventually his writing.

In psychoanalytic criticism, much like the other literary theories, no one person can put together a universal approach to the critique. One reader may look at the aspects of the author's subconscious that comes out in the piece. Another reader may look at the motives of the characters in the piece and use their past experiences to justify their behavior. A reader could also look at it from the perspective of how the work exhibits universal themes of human psychology.

Psychoanalytic Criticism Theory

"Lord of the Flies"

William Golding

Characters & Society: In Golding's novel, he is implying the tendency towards violence in young boys. Through the actions of seemingly relate able characters and their decent into an anarchist society, the reader is able to infer that there is a deeply repressed desire for dominance by any means in all people. That this desire is held back by maturity, but nonetheless exists in everyone's egos.

Where does it come from?

Sigmund Freud was a psychologist when he started his work on psychoanalysis and eventually psychoanalytic criticism theory. While treating behavioral disorders in Viennese patients, he concluded that people's behavior is affected by their unconscious mind.

"...the notion that human beings are motivated, even driven, by desires, fears, needs, and conflicts of which they are unaware..."

(Tyson 14-15)

Purdue OWL

Psychoanalytic Criticism

By: Soren Gilbertson

Work Cited

Purdue Writing Lab. Psychoanalytic Criticism (1930s-Present), owl.purdue.edu/owl/subject_specific_writing/writing_in_literature/literary_theory_and_schools_of_criticism/psychoanalytic_criticism.html.

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