Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WILLIAM GOLDING HATES children. They are ignorant monsters who savagely destroy each other, worse than adults, who at least recognize the evil inherent in man. When Golding's children lose their innocence, they pass out of one destitute world of sin and darkness and enter another...
...master of allegory. For example, Golding draws Sophy, one of a pair of terrorist twins that Matty encounters, less precisely, and her character suffers as a result. She "puzzles over the darkness inside her," just like Matty, but the author fails to define the nooks and crannies of her evil character. Golding resorts to contrived description...
...Evil...
...Speak No Evil...
...ultimate manifestation of the stupidity and evil within the human race. We have reached the point where we must recognize that either war is obsolete or the human race soon will be. I will not have on my conscience that I took part in this great sin of mankind...