The Stephen King Institute against the Lord of Mouches: themes and contrasting messages
After watching a new Stephen King TV adaptation, it is difficult not to notice how he apparently challenges the obsessive message behind a prohibited 71 -year book. Most often, Stephen King’s stories take off the layers of the ordinary life of human characters to reveal a darker and more scary nucleus.
Because of this, even if most of Stephen King ‘books are fictitious and almost always have strange fantastic elements, their central themes seem to be relatable. As bizarre and imaginative as Stephen King’s story may seem initially, it often reflects its real fears surrounding morality, mortality, the loss of individual freedom and the dark influence of power.
An acclaimed Stephen King book, which has been adapted in a television program, seems to be rifting on similar anxieties in the real world. A more in -depth examination of the Stephen King television show also reveals how his overall message is contrary to that of another 71 -year -old renowned book which was prohibited due to his perceived moral message.
The Institute serves as an anti-thesis for the Lord of Flies
Stephen King’s show retorts the main theme that animates the classic novel
Stephen King The Institute And William Golding Mouches Lord Have a similar history configuration where children find themselves in an isolated and terrifying situation, without the supervision of responsible adults. While the young characters of Mouches Lord do not have adults around them, those The Institute are controlled by those who do not care about their well-being.
However, although they are not supervised by adults, the characters of the two stories act differently. In Mouches LordChaos follows when the boys gradually give in to their primary instinct and realize that the absence of rules allows them to engage in violence, domination and cruelty without consequences.
As a result, they become more and more barbaric and create divisions between them instead of finding a way out. Those in The InstituteOn the other hand, unite and try to keep their innocence instead of succumbing to their darker impulses. With his representation of his central young boys, Mouches Lord Try to grasp how the company reveals an internal evil when all the constraints are deleted.
The Institute seems to counter this idea by showing that young characters are not a source of their own terror. Unlike those of Mouches LordThey seem to have an internal voice that guides them to fight against oppressive forces and help each other to find justice against external evil.
Interestingly, the Lord of the Mouches inspired Stephen King to become an author
The Lord of the Mouches changed Stephen King to adolescence
In an interview (via The guardian), Stephen King said he had read William Golding Lord for the first time at the age of 12. He compared the book with JK Rowling Harry Potter Books, recalling how he was obsessed with Ralph and Jack how Harry Potter was with Harry Potter at the top of his popularity.
In many ways, Stephen King He Echoes too Mouches Lord With its exploration of the loss of childhood innocence.
The king of horror also revealed that, even if it had taken him a while to really understand the symbolism and the sexual subtext of the book, he wanted to write something similar. With that, Mouches Lord has become one of the most determining books Stephen King Read, playing a key role in opening the way to become an author.
