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Abstract
The Unfortunate Triumph of Anthropocentrism over the Carnivalesque In William Golding’s The Lord of the Flies
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The carnival spirit which is associated with nature regarding human being’s return to their basic instincts as well as his interaction with climatic and vegetative cycles dooms to fail due to the anthropocentric practices performed by the new inhabitants of the island
The present paper aims to demonstrate how the ozlemakyol12@gmail.com carnivalesque is overthrown by anthropocentrism in Lord of the Flies
The concept turns out a social-cultural phenomenon rejecting the “serious tone of medieval ecclesiastical and feudal culture” and deconstructs the ideology of dominant culture (Bakhtin, 1984: 4)
Summary
The carnival spirit which is associated with nature regarding human being’s return to their basic instincts as well as his interaction with climatic and vegetative cycles dooms to fail due to the anthropocentric practices performed by the new inhabitants of the island. Lord of the Flies, explicitly goes beyond this category because of Golding’s profound usage of symbolic imagery and his skilful representation of real life issues like passion for power, discrimination, ignorance for nature or human centeredness and so on.
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