English 11: Freudian Theory and LOTF

 Some review of defense mechanisms and the Id, Ego and Superego.

Back to psychology! Here we go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUELAiHbCxc&t=227s

English 12: Existentialism

For our last stretch, we'll be looking at existentialism and its application in literature and our lives. To start, we need to figure out what existentialism is.

Existentialism is the idea that the world is inherently meaningless, and we must make it meaningful for ourselves. Existentialism rejects essentialism - which argues that meaning inherently exists as the essence of all things.

Sartre’s "Ratchet Up the Anguish"

(Activity) 

Next, the Myth of Sisyphus and Camus:

LOTF!

How do the boys’ perceptions of one another change in Chapters 10–12 as fear and power take hold, and how does the naval officer’s reaction at the end of the novel challenge or expose the way the boys have come to see themselves and each other?

Chapter 6 LOTF

 How does the discovery of the “beast from air” in Chapter 6 intensify the boys’ fear, and how does this growing fear begin to undermine Ralph’s attempts at order and rational leadership?