Structures of the World; Human Rights and Equality through Archetypes in Lord of the Flies

Year 2019, Volume: 5 Issue: 1, 13 - 26, 30.06.2019

Umut Barutlu , Nur Emine Koç

Abstract

The
world as a whole is already full of corruptions, especially when looking at the
human rights and equality. From birth till death, people teach generations what
is right and what is wrong, but never ask what’s really right or wrong, without
depending on standardizations. What is meant here is, that when a child is
born, his family teaches the child rights and wrongs and let him live with the
principles he learns for the rest of his life. Then, the society even decides what
his or her religion is going to be. These standardizations or stereotypes
appear as ‘archetypes’ from the time of Plato to this century. While these
archetypes can change from time to time, they also become the representatives
of human beings that shows the characterizations of every single people with
their types. This is exactly what Lord of the Flies tries to show; relationships
of the children who seem innocent, but act according to what they’ve learned
from their societies. A group of children land on an island by force because of
a plane crash and they find a conch. They use it to build a parliament and they
try to maintain equality while giving all of them the right to talk, choose and
live freely which is exactly the same that they’ve learned from their parents
and the world they live in. The problem is, after sometime they forget about this
equality and start to fight for power.

Keywords

Archetypes, Corruption, Failure of relationships, Equality, Structures of the world

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