Lord of the Flies
Frazz
Pearls Before Swine
"The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not. (The only rule of thumb was: whatever is not compulsory is forbidden.) Thus, the ruled can always be found to be in the wrong. The ability to run such a 'system' is among the greatest pleasures of arbitrary authority, and I count myself lucky, if that's the word, to have worked this out by the time I was ten. Later in life I came up with the term "micro-megalomaniac" to describe those who are content to maintain absolute domination of a small sphere."
"Worst of all, I have found, are those post-Hobbesian places--such as the Congo--where tyranny and anarchy manage a fearful symmetry, and occur simultaneously."-- on traveling to "countries where things cannot be taken for granted and where there is either too much law and order or too little."
--Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22
LOTF Long Essay explanation and rubric
Prof. Diane Henningfeld's Critical Essay on the Allegories.
Character Analysis Short Essay - Explanation and Rubric
Video of Stanley Milgram's Shock Experiments
MLA citation for this video:
"Milgram Obedience Study." YouTube, uploaded by livewordcanada, 12 Dec. 2011, https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=fCVlI-_4GZQ&feature=emb_logo.
Parenthetical citation: ("Milgram Obedience Study")
French Reality Show mimicking Milgram's Experiment (and video)
BBC documentary about the Stanford Prison Experiment
MLA citation for this video:
BBC. “The Stanford Prison Experiment.” 2002. YouTube, uploaded by Patricia Im, 24 April 2011, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=760lwYmpXbc.
Parenthetical citation: (BBC)
Peter Brook, the director of the 1963 film version, on making the film
Time Magazine blurb from April 2010 about bullying and LOTF
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract (full text)
Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan (full text)
An example of a student's alternate ending to the novel
Listen to William Golding discuss the novel
How to cite these recordings:
In the text:
The author states that girls are "far superior" to boys (Golding "Introduction").
In your Works Cited:
Golding, William. "Introduction." Lord of the Flies (audiobook). Random House, 2005.