As part of your discussion make sure you talk about the author's methods. The examiners want to know about ideas and attitudes, themes too, but they need to know how the author puts his ideas across.
In both the texts we are studying the authors use various methods to convey their intentions. Golding is heavily reliant on symbolism and he uses several items to explore the ideas of civilisation, control, the breakdown of order and the irony attached to some of these. For instance the glasses represent order, civilsation, control, knowledge, power, clarity, vision, perspective - they are the height of technology on the island as they can be used to provide fire for warmth, cooking and signalling however their use in this manner leads to destruction and power struggle. Remember that the signal fire leads to a significant portion of the island being destroyed, as well as the assumed death of the boy with the mulberry birthmark. Its importance also leads to the raid on Piggy and Ralph's camp by Jack and his followers. What the glasses represent is somewhat ironic as it can be used by rational thinkers, but equally by 'savages' - perhaps the author is suggesting that technology does not breed civilisation and order, but also death and destruction; remember that the other references to technology include an atomic bomb and fighter planes.
In both the texts we are studying the authors use various methods to convey their intentions. Golding is heavily reliant on symbolism and he uses several items to explore the ideas of civilisation, control, the breakdown of order and the irony attached to some of these. For instance the glasses represent order, civilsation, control, knowledge, power, clarity, vision, perspective - they are the height of technology on the island as they can be used to provide fire for warmth, cooking and signalling however their use in this manner leads to destruction and power struggle. Remember that the signal fire leads to a significant portion of the island being destroyed, as well as the assumed death of the boy with the mulberry birthmark. Its importance also leads to the raid on Piggy and Ralph's camp by Jack and his followers. What the glasses represent is somewhat ironic as it can be used by rational thinkers, but equally by 'savages' - perhaps the author is suggesting that technology does not breed civilisation and order, but also death and destruction; remember that the other references to technology include an atomic bomb and fighter planes.
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