Grandpa's great writer

Chapter 699 Lord of the Flies (first update)
Llorente's dreams are quite strange. Before that, he said that the monster Lin Lexi in his book was also in his dreams.

"Well, I've had this kind of dream many times. Those dreams are like disaster movies. People's wailing can always be heard. Houses collapse one by one, and countless cracks appear on the ground. Some people panic and fall. into the cracks..."

The other three looked at each other as Llorente described his dream.

Linde said, "Then do you still dare to sleep?"

Llorente said indifferently, "Why don't you dare, such a dream is not without benefits. Apart from feeling fear in the dream, I don't feel anything after waking up, and it can also provide material for some of my novels, I consider that to be a lucky thing.”

Linde nodded, "Come on, dream more, write more novels, and next time you won't have to complain about the house price being too expensive."

Llorente pouted, "The house price is really expensive."

……

After sending Lin De and the others back to the hotel, Zhang Zhong also returned home.

The two of them will stay in Huaxia for a while. After all, the way back and forth is not close, so they will naturally have to stay for a few days longer.

All the way home, Zhang Zhong was actually still thinking about the dream that Llorente had mentioned before.

When Llorente described his dream, a work—Lord of the Flies—suddenly appeared in Zhang Chong’s mind.

"Lord of the Flies" is the first novel of the Nobel Prize-winning British novelist William Golding, and this novel is also his representative work.

Unlike Jack London, Golding lived in a well-off intellectual family since he was a child. At the age of 19, he obeyed his father's arrangement and entered Oxford University to study natural sciences. Two years later, he switched to literature.

At the age of 24, he graduated from Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts degree, and then worked as a director and actor in a small theater troupe.

At the age of 29, he joined the Royal Navy. It was a time of war. Being in the navy was not as simple as just messing around, but he personally participated in the war at that time.

Five years later, at the age of 34, he retired from the army and went to school to teach English literature, that is, a language teacher.

It was not until he was 43 years old that he published his first novel "Lord of the Flies".

Compared with Jack London's ups and downs but short life, Golding's life is more stable, but a late bloomer.

A person's style of work can often be traced from his life experience, such as Jack London, whose ups and downs of life filled his heart with contradictions, such as his work "Sea Wolf", whose creative motivation was to criticize Nietzsche's "Superman ", but after reading it, readers find that Jack London himself has created a vivid "Superman".

Another example is "Martin Eden". When he wrote this work, he once said that he wanted to indict individualism, but this motivation was completely changed by his own enthusiasm and appreciation for the protagonist in the creation.

As for William Golding, growing up in such an intellectual family and receiving higher education, his thinking about human nature began to become rooted.

In his works, readers can often see the theme of "human nature is evil".

Freedom leads to indulgence, lack of rules leads to corruption, and lack of restraint leads to evil.

This is the case with "Lord of the Flies". The story describes a group of little boys who evacuated from the mainland because of the outbreak of the "Third World War", but there was an accident during the flight, the plane was hit, and all the adults were killed.

Several little boys fled to an uninhabited deserted island. At first they, led by a boy who looked more reliable, lit a fire for help, built a house to hunt.However, they split into two factions. A few people continued to wait for rescue, while others abandoned their civilized habits and became savage hunters, even wanting to kill others.

Children originally from a civilized society gradually lose their subjectivity (which can be understood as self-awareness), lose their rationality, forget basic morals and ethics, and become obedient to violence and power, and become the will to power. implementation object.

Thinking of "Lord of the Flies", Zhang Zhong thought of "Coral Island" again.

When creating "Lord of the Flies", Golding drew a lot from "Coral Island". The background, environment and even the names of the people in the story are a bit similar to "Coral Island".

But the two works are very different in theme.

"Coral Island" is more like a decent children's literature. The novel tells the story of a group of children who leave the shelter of adults and face the challenges of life directly.

Zhang Zhong loves "Lord of the Flies" more, this is not a denial of "Coral Island", but he feels that compared to "Coral Island" which directly reflects the subjectivity of human beings through individualism, he prefers "Lord of the Flies" as the plot advances Digest the subjectivity of the characters, and when revealing the darkness of human nature, let the readers realize the epiphany in shock and reflect in fear.

Ding dong.

The message prompt brought Zhang Chong's thoughts back to reality. He looked down, and he didn't know when he took a pen and wrote a sentence—maybe there was a beast, maybe it was just us.

This is a sentence in "Lord of the Flies". I didn't expect to write it out by accident.

Zhang Zhong looked at the phone again. It was a package advertisement sent by the communication company. He turned off the phone with a smile, and then continued to write on the paper with a pen.

……

"You didn't seem to have a good rest last night? Did you also dream about the atomic bomb explosion?"

Looking at Zhang Zhong's tired face, Llorente joked.

Zhang Zhong smiled and said, "Thanks to you, I suddenly had some inspiration, so I worked for a while last night."

"Oh?" Llorente became interested, "Is it the kind of cyberpunk where starfish are facing destruction due to the nuclear crisis, human beings are surviving in adversity, and technology is advancing?"

"No." Zhang Zhong shook his head.

"That's good, if that's the case, it would be too boring." Llorente laughed again.

Zhang Zhong was used to this guy's way of speaking, so he ignored him.At this time, the car had already driven to the entrance of the Xunwang Exhibition Hall. Zhang Zhong pointed to the gate and said, "We are here."

Llorente looked at the exhibition hall in front of him and exclaimed, "It's bigger than I thought. Is this really your personal?"

"Of course." Zhang Zhong smiled.

"Tsk tsk, I'm jealous."

Zhang Zhong raised his eyebrows, surprised by his expression, "You're a fast learner, Daniel."

"Isn't it?" Llorente shrugged arrogantly.

Linde next to him was a little confused, "What do you mean by being jealous?"

"That means I'm jealous. This is an authentic Chinese way of expression. Linde, you still have a lot to learn." Llorente said earnestly.

Seeing his frightened look, Zhang Zhong really wanted to take out the "three nests of smart rabbits" he said before and talk about it.

(End of this chapter)