Роман В. Голдінга „Зрима темрява”: особливості проблематики і поетики

Abstract

Досліджується своєрідність проблематики та особливості поетики роману В. Ґолдінґа „Видима темрява”. Особлива увага приділяється проблемам композиції, амбівалентності та метафоричності образів.

Like all of Golding’s novels Darkness Visible is concerned with the ambivalence of moral issues, the difficulty of judgment and of breaking down the partitions that isolate men and prevent them from feeling a sense of community. Golding employs mythic, fabular and allegorical modes to convey his insight about human nature. The novel destroys the binary opposition assumed to exist between good and evil, shows that they are interdependent, the one incapable of existing without the other. Matty and Sophy, the main characters, seem to live in a spiritual dimension, but at the opposite ends of it. „Pure elements” of good and evil represented by them appear to be parts of the hidden human nature that form the hell of the contemporary society.