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A 4 page analysis of Golding's novel. William Golding's 1979 novel Darkness Visible, like his previous work Lord of the Flies, is extremely complex, offering an integrate narrative fabric that highlights the ambiguity of moral issues, as well as the problem of making moral judgements and how this serves to establish barriers that isolate people from one another. The novel's protagonists live at opposite ends of the spiritual spectrum, yet each seem to affect the world around them in extraordinary ways. Matty, who is deformed from a terrible burn, achieves spiritual transcendence and the beautiful Sophy employs her power by being increasingly sadistic. While this sounds as if Golding presents good and evil as polar opposites, the novel works to obliterate such distinctions and to demonstrate that good and evil are interdependent. No additional sources cited.
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issues, as well as the problem of making moral judgements and how this serves to establish barriers that isolate people from one another. The novels protagonists live at opposite ends
of the spiritual spectrum, yet each seem to affect the world around them in extraordinary ways. Matty, who is deformed from a terrible burn, achieves spiritual transcendence and the beautiful
Sophy employs her power by being increasingly sadistic. While this sounds as if Golding presents good and evil as polar opposites, the novel works to obliterate such distinctions and
to demonstrate that good and evil are interdependent. Golding explores the extremes to which people are capable and the conflicts that rage within the human soul by offering two life
stories. Matty was horribly disfigured in the fires of World War IIs London Blitz. His ghastly physical appearance contrasts sharply with his inner spirituality and ability to love selflessly and
completely. Sophy, young and incredibly beautiful, is prone to cruelty and enjoys inflicting pain. Matty sees God as determining action; Sophy sees only chance. Matty tends to take things
literally. When a teacher, Mr. Pedigree, refers to him sarcastically as a "treasure," Matty takes his as a sign of affection and becomes attached to the older man. Later, he
takes an offhand remark of Pedigree concerning another student, Henderson, too literally and, interpreting the boy to be evil, wills his death by throwing a gym shoe and muttering a
curse. Henderson falls to his death precisely where the gym shoe lands. Pedigree senses Mattys involvement and says, "You horrible, horrible boy! Its all your fault" (Golding 37). Due to
his inarticulate responses to the headmaster when Matty tries to explain what happened, he is sent away from school. He becomes a wanderer, reminiscent of the Bibles Cain or Esau,
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