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Indeed, the rate of depravity may even have increased.
why should girl be expected to provide maturity & order? safest thing would be if she pushed all the boys in the sea...
the boys became killers & klled pigggy who was clever but no self preservation - some of the girls would have so much self preservation & get their own way by manipulation playing people off agaist each other etc as well as hitting them on the head
Any girls in the 'littleluns' group (however that was spelled) wouldn't make a difference, that group was meant to be on the lowest survival mode (play, eat, sleep). Girls in the older group, such as Piggy being female, would have added a new element, and likely would have been resistant to violence from boys (but early chivalry would still breakdown eventually). I think it would have been interesting for Golding to portray what he believed would occur between girls and boys along his book's slow erosion of socialization and morality, but really though, Golding doesn't have girls in the book because of the military context/background of it, which in his time was male only (soldiers and officers).
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why should girl be expected to provide maturity & order? safest thing would be if she pushed all the boys in the sea...
the boys became killers & klled pigggy who was clever but no self preservation - some of the girls would have so much self preservation & get their own way by manipulation playing people off agaist each other etc as well as hitting them on the head
Any girls in the 'littleluns' group (however that was spelled) wouldn't make a difference, that group was meant to be on the lowest survival mode (play, eat, sleep). Girls in the older group, such as Piggy being female, would have added a new element, and likely would have been resistant to violence from boys (but early chivalry would still breakdown eventually). I think it would have been interesting for Golding to portray what he believed would occur between girls and boys along his book's slow erosion of socialization and morality, but really though, Golding doesn't have girls in the book because of the military context/background of it, which in his time was male only (soldiers and officers).
