I 'm afraid that your simplistic rendering of 'Lord of the Flies' weakens your review of 'The Metamorphosis...'. Did you pay attention while you were reading 'Lord of the Fies'? Or did you just watch the made for TV movie? Far from the simple, surficial "adult good, kid bad" understanding that you display, the book is a moarlity play examining a number of topics.
British upper-class schoolboys behaving as animals? Shocking to the mid-twentieth century British upper-class sensibilities it was examining. It was a parable, an examination of the larger world surrounding it and a commentary on the war that Golding had experienced.
The schoolboys represented the best of the society that created them. Golding used them as a literary construct to deliver his message, which was: don't think that the veneer of post-Victorian civility that you affect is anything more than that - a thin layer not indicitave of that which it covers. The true, repeatedly demonstrated, nature of humanity lies beneath that cloak, and it it is red in tooth and claw.
I know that it seemed to be a quick and easy way to get your point accross, but you ought to put a little more effort into your analogies if you expect them to succeed.
Sheila Copps would never be confused for an anorexic, either.
The proposal was "Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance Party", or CCRAP. And despite the media frenzy that it engendered, nobody, including Shawinigan's most famous ex-resident, ever took the name seriously. They've been the Canadian Alliance party quite happily for a long time.
Further, and more importantly, do you really think that any levy will ever stop the RIAA and their international bretheren from whining, griping; litigating and legislating for further erosions of fair use? Time to scrounge another rock, your crack pipe's empty.
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I 'm afraid that your simplistic rendering of 'Lord of the Flies' weakens your review of 'The Metamorphosis...'. Did you pay attention while you were reading 'Lord of the Fies'? Or did you just watch the made for TV movie? Far from the simple, surficial "adult good, kid bad" understanding that you display, the book is a moarlity play examining a number of topics.
British upper-class schoolboys behaving as animals? Shocking to the mid-twentieth century British upper-class sensibilities it was examining. It was a parable, an examination of the larger world surrounding it and a commentary on the war that Golding had experienced.
The schoolboys represented the best of the society that created them. Golding used them as a literary construct to deliver his message, which was: don't think that the veneer of post-Victorian civility that you affect is anything more than that - a thin layer not indicitave of that which it covers. The true, repeatedly demonstrated, nature of humanity lies beneath that cloak, and it it is red in tooth and claw.
I know that it seemed to be a quick and easy way to get your point accross, but you ought to put a little more effort into your analogies if you expect them to succeed.
Okay, let's get a few things straight, here.
Sheila Copps would never be confused for an anorexic, either.
The proposal was "Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance Party", or CCRAP. And despite the media frenzy that it engendered, nobody, including Shawinigan's most famous ex-resident, ever took the name seriously. They've been the Canadian Alliance party quite happily for a long time.
Further, and more importantly, do you really think that any levy will ever stop the RIAA and their international bretheren from whining, griping; litigating and legislating for further erosions of fair use? Time to scrounge another rock, your crack pipe's empty.