5/22 YA Notes week 14 Lord of the Flies－JaneJaneLand

§ <Lord of the Flies> - Sir William Gerald Golding

*fly (1)看的到的(屍體上的) (2)聽得到的 (3)象徵性的

(用時態的方式→表達 “不知何去何從”的感覺)

*children of lesser god

*allegorical

(1) allegory : rhetorical device

→Eg: The Faerie Queen – Edmund Spenser

(including the prize of Elizabeth I)

(2)fable: short, narrative, featuring inanimate characters

(短,非人類角色被賦予人類情懷和到的教訓/anthropomorphized擬人化)

→Eg: Aesop’s Fables

(最後的道德教訓是後人加上去的)

1. “The Fox and the Grapes”

2.“The Boy Who Cried Wolf”(false alarm)

3.“The North Wind and the Sun”

4.“The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat”

(“He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends.” / rejoicing慶功宴)

(3)parable

(耶穌喜歡用人間的小故事來講天國大道理

→Eg: Parable of the Prodigal Son浪子回頭記

(*para- :平行並立 →paragraph, parachute, parallel)

*enclosed area: 阿拉伯之春, 管制網路,茉莉花革命

§Utopian & Dystopian fiction (Apocalyptic literature)

※Utopian

*Sir Thomas More (Saint Thomas More)

→反對新教徒的改革運動 (opposed the Protestant Reformation)

→Utopian (book,理想的地方)

最早出現於<The Republic>- Plato (philosopher/ founded the Academy in Athens)

*西方三哲人：

1.Socrates→ Socrates was a classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy.

2.Plato→Plato was a philosopher, as well as mathematician, in Classical Greece and an influential figure in philosophy, central in Western philosophy. He was Socrates' student, and founded the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.

3.Aristotle→Aristotlewas a Greek philosopher and scientist born in northern Greece, in 384 BCE. His writings cover many subjects – including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theater, music, rhetoric, linguistics, politics and government – and constitute the first comprehensive system of Western philosophy.