荒岛实验室里的现代启示录——论小说《蝇王》揭示的现代人类社会问题

The Apocalypse Taking Desert Island as a Lab——The Social Problems Presented in Lord of the Flies

威廉.戈尔丁的小说《蝇王》,是讽喻小说的典型代表之作。作者为了探讨人类社会问题而把小岛作为整个人类社会的缩影,通过对于孩子们踏入荒岛之后命运的描写,集中分析了人类文明的脆弱性、科学和教育的局限性以及社会体系坍塌的原因。如果只是把这部作品视为简单的儿童文学,读者就会忽略戈尔丁讲述这个讽喻故事的真正意义,从而也会忽略其作品对于人类社会问题的揭露和批判。

Golding＇s Lord of the Flies applies allegorical way of writing to the novel and is regarded as his masterpiece.He scales the human society down to a small island with the purpose to reflect the frailty of human civilization,the limitation of science and education as well as the reasons why the existing social system is in a state of collapse.Hence,if the depiction of this phenomenon is simply regarded as a children＇s book about the desert island,the readers will neglect the real purpose of this allegory and the warnings of social problems presented in the novel.