Totemism, Homoeroticism, Sexual repression: their relation to the issue of power and civilization in William Golding's Lord Of The Flies.

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…land, is in tatters - the bombs, the gunship and the destroyed airplane: war is raging. Thus apparent civilization and apparent primitivism is shown to be the extensions of the same line: only looked at from different coordinates. It indeed leaves us with a bleak message, the futility of existence: "what is anything at all?" [this is the abstract of a pepr with the same title:i seek comments first, whole essay can come later]