Ralph and Jack could've just been the same person and then there'd be no tragedy, no sad tale of lost hope, it'd just be "An evil bully leader landed on an island and continued to be an evil bully"
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I think it's obvious that Golding's view of "human nature" is not so dim that he doesn't think friends who genuinely trust each other can ever exist Just that it's sometimes tragic when you feel like people obviously desperately need a relationship like that but fail
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And that you see that happen - A LOT - in middle class schoolyards And those same ugly dynamics crop up disturbingly often in the halls of state in this supposedly advanced civilization of ours
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(I reveal my bias here but I think a lot about Ralph looking at Piggy and just thinking how funny his fat little face and whiny little voice is when he's trying to be serious and warn him about Jack "Ugh stop calling everyone you disagree with a Nazi you fucking nerd")
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("I don't know if he's right about all this wonk shit but I just wanna shove that guy into a locker you know what I mean")
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