`LORD OF THE FLIES` TAKE IT OUT OF THE CLASSROOM

`LORD OF THE FLIES ' - TAKE IT OUT OF THE CLASSROOM

Outline

Introduction

1 . Controversies

2 . Historical Background

3 . Book Banning

Lord of the Flies - In the Spotlight

1 . Popularity

Analysis

1 . Traits

2 . Thesis in the story

Storyline

1 . Development

2 . Concept

Thesis - Fallacies and Immoralities

1 . Vague points made

2 . Violence

3 . Anti-Social Behavior

4 . Savaging

5 . Foul Language

Conclusion

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, but neither did the new millennium bring relief from the persistent impediments to free expression that characterized the twentieth century . Arthur Schlesinger Jr , reminds us that throughout most of human history , authority fortified by the highest religious and philosophical texts , has righteously invoked censorship to stifle expression ' He cites the Old Testament proscription : Tell it not in Gath , publish it not in the streets of Askelon lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice , lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph ' Schlesinger also offers the injunction of Plato : The poet shall compose nothing contrary to the ideas of the lawful , or just , or beautiful , or good , which are allowed in the state nor shall he be permitted to show his compositions to any private individual until he shall have shown them to the appointed censors and the guardians of the law , and they are satisfied with them

Introduction

Lord of the Flies has been the center of controversy over the years having been resurrected from its status as a cult classic . However , in my opinion this novel represents a lot of possible socially wrong viewpoints and could be the cause for seeding violent , vulgar and anti-social thoughts in school children . It is because of this reason that I propose to restrict it from classrooms in the school system . The issue of banned books has been escalating since Guttenberg introduced the printing press in 1455 . Once speech could be printed , it became a commodity , to be controlled and manipulated on the basis of religion politics , or profit . After Pope Leo X condemned Martin Luther 's Ninety Five Theses in 1517 , both Catholics and Protestants began censoring materials that they found dangerous or subversive . Religious censorship quickly led to political censorship when Luther defied the Pope bringing an immediate response from Emperor Charles V . On May 26 , 1521 the emperor issued the Edict of Worms , containing a Law of Printing which prohibited the printing , sale , possession , reading , or copying of Luther 's works . However , in the United States and England , a social consensus on censorship was emerging that would be far more repressive than overt state or church power . By the 1830s , this new ideology was proclaiming the necessity for propriety , prudence , and sexual restraint

During the remainder of the nineteenth century , private virtue became public virtue , and American and British editors , publishers and librarians felt obliged to examine every book for crude language or unduly explicit or realistic portrayals of life . In her introduction to the 1984 New York Public Library exhibition...