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[lotfdespicableconfessions]

I don’t like Netflix Ralph and I hate that you can’t say it without people getting mad. It looks nothing like him

CONFESSION #39

Why are most of these about the boys' race?? Weirddd

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[sillybillsy]

Saying this while ignoring how pretty much most of the characters dont look like their book counterparts is crazy.

I think people need to stop focusing on the casting and just appreciate or criticise the show for it's writing/plot/acting/ANYTHING ELSE for once.

[sillybillsy]

Found out they stopped teaching Lotf in my school and im so devastated, how else are the year 7s supposed to accidentally join the fandom after reading the book in class now 💔💔

(Though they still have like a million copies just lying around the whole school in the most random ass places)

[jalphpilled]

moe merridew

[sillybillsy]

Genuinely the UK rn

Anyway, its one of those days where I decide to reread the entirety of the lotf stage play adaptation for no real reason 😍

[crennypilled]

[myndwlhgm]

[alienpony67]

Samneric

[star-conch]

come join us here in equestria

[jackmerridews]

whats ur biggest critique/problem with lord of the flies?

i think the framework used to distinguish “civilisation” from “savagery” is far from neutral. golding’s idea of civilisation is implicitly coded as what he perceives to be british (orderly and sensible) while savagery is constructed through imagery historically associated by colonisers with colonised and non-white people (african and indigenous people, to be specific). golding’s language draws on a colonial lexicon that positions western ideas and norms as the standard of humanity and frames deviation from them as regression.

and even though the novel is often read as a universal commentary on human nature, its symbolic descent into “savagery” is not abstract. it instead mirrors a specifically western conception of “primitiveness,” one that has long been imposed upon black and indigenous people. this is reinforced by the way even the so-called “civilised” characters use racialised language, like piggy using slurs to associate moral decline with non-white/european identities. as a result, the boys’ fall from order is not simply a loss of societal structure, but a movement into a culturally loaded idea of the “savage” is an exaggerated reflection of how british colonial ideology historically depicted people of colour as living “backwards” and forced them to assimilate in violent ways that stripped them of all cultural identity

[sillybillsy]

This is such a good take. I've been writing an essay on this topic as part of coursework and this is one of the things I had to discuss

Looking at other essays on this subject matter was also so interesting and I wish people acknowledged it more.

[silly-ehggy]

I still love this drawing sm... why does ralph Look Like That

[silly-ehggy]

What the Frick boys kissing

[dontfeedtheplant]

"i asked chatgpt-" well i asked the lord of the flies and he said i was a silly ignorant little boy

[sillybillsy]

Lord of the flies musical adaptation where Piggy tap dances and sings all of his lines while Ralph does headstands for all of his lines.

BBC hmu ❤️

[zombie0b1tch]

1000 kudos on ao3

[jackmerridews]

[star-conch]

happy valentines dayyy love is in the airrr

[sillybillsy]

LOTF YAP

(This isn't an explicit prediction of what would happen if girls got stranded on an island, but moreso what if the book commented on girls the way it comments on boys. I'm well aware that several points are informed by stereotypes but that's the point)

I was doing some research for an essay I'm writing on lotf and saw that Golding himself said that, if it were just girls on the island, none of the events that occurred in the book would happen; that the book is commenting on the inherent evil of men, and that women are, well, superior to men in his eyes. (Obviously there's way more to it).

Me and my friend had a discussion and I have to disagree with Golding.

I think that a group of girls, especially young girls, could be incredibly malicious to eachother under these circumstances.

While men wouldn't be present on the island, I think girls still have internalised patriarchal standards that they hold themselves, and other girls, to. It could lead to a lot of cruelty, especially if Piggy was a girl. Women are much more heavily criticised for their weight and seen as "undesirable" so i think the treatment of Piggy would have the potential to be even worse if they were all girls.

The dynamics of power, who holds it, how it shifts, and how it is enforced, would be massively decided based on these standards. Beauty standards are also another thing, and girls are held to high standards on their appearance, social exclusions, bullying, cruelty, all of it would be much more prominent due to the strict expectations, particularly teenage, girls feel a need to live up to.

Think of friendships too. I think friendship between girls can be experienced a lot differently to how boys experience them. Girls seem to have more emotional intimacy and openness within their friendships, while men (seen through Jack in the book) often hide their weaknesses from even their friends. I think the betrayals that occur could be amplified further through this.

Obviously, this is based on massive generalisations of the two genders and a likely amplified difference. But I feel that, if the book were to be ABOUT the gender, then this is how it could differ from what is already there, while not suggesting that women can't be cruel or evil as Golding suggests. I desperately want to write a fic, book, or just something like this tbh.