![]() ![]() ![]() Instead of Lok being lord and master of his feet, Lok is subservient. This hints at a lack of integration that I discussed previously. Further, Lok is dependent and trusts his feet to guide him. ![]() Golding gives Lok's feet human-like powers: they see, they hear, they guide. They threw him round the displayed roots of the beeches, leapt when a puddle of water lay across the trail.Now they could hear the river that lay parallel but hidden to their left." "Lok was running as fast as he could.Lok's feet were clever. Golding establishes his world view from the opening lines and we can use chapter one to look at how he does his. For this reason, the plot is quite hard to follow on the first reading. He writes almost the whole book from the point of view of the Neanderthals, who do not understand the dramtic changes that are happening to them. His premise was that the Neanderthals were gentle hunter-gatherers, an idea in marked contrast to the zeitgeist at the time. William Golding wrote 'the Inheritors' in 1955 and I think it is a brilliant piece of writing. My own, less sophisticated, attempts are below: Joseph Carroll, a University teacher from Missouri, provides a powerful set of tools for evaluating these kinds of novels. Another way of exploring the problems of Neanderthal psychology is to look at the work of other authors that have ploughed this particular furrow before. ![]()
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