Traduction et Langues
Volume 19, Numéro 2, Pages 50-66
2020-12-31
The Ethical Void Or The Parody Of Western Modernity In Golding's Lord Of The Flies
Authors : Gning Maurice .
Abstract
This paper examines the issue of ethics in Lord of the Flies (1954) by the English Postmodern writer, William Golding (1911-1993). The study is grounded on some ethical principles drawn from the moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). It concludes that ethics is absent in the environment where Golding’s characters evolve. This absence of ethical references mainly results from western modernity that called into question all former references that provided moral ideals. As such, Lord of Flies enacts, with much irony, the ethical void in which western modernity introduced humanity.
Keywords
Modernity; Western; William Golding; Lord of the Flies; Ethical void
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