I just bristle at the idea that Lord of the Flies is a novel "used to justify colonialism" when the most obvious, superficial, blunt hammer reading of it is the opposite of that It's *literally* "White people who think they can build a new society from scratch fuck it all up"https://twitter.com/NussbaumAbigail/status/1259386486643924992 …
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Like, I dunno, I feel like a hypothetical reader who could go galaxy brain enough to use LotF to justify an actively pro-colonial message could do that with literally any text Who's the colonist in the story then, the Navy guy at the end?
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The whole point of his deus ex machina appearance is he has no idea what's happened or how to fix it, it's totally against his worldview He *says so*, that he thought British schoolboys on an island would end up having a grand Robinsonade adventure
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And, remember, the framing device of the story - easy to miss and dropped from many parodies/adaptations, to be fair - is HIS SOCIETY FAILED TOO The boys got stranded in the first place because London got nuked The grownups burned down their island too
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The strongest dominance hierarchy on the island from the beginning was always Jack and his choirboy minions though
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