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Lord of The Flies:

Lord of the Flies is a 1954 dystopian novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author William Golding about a group of British boys stuck on an uninhabited island who try to govern themselves with disastrous results. Its stances on the already controversial subjects of human nature and individual welfare versus the common good earned it position 68 on the American Library Association’s list of the 100 most frequently challenged books of 1990–1999.



More's best known and most controversial work, Utopia is a novel written in Latin.

Utopia(book): Utopia is a work of fiction and political philosophy by Thomas More (1478–1535) published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs.

Neverland:　 It is the dwelling place of Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, the Lost Boysand others. Although not all people in Neverland cease to age, its best known resident famously refused to grow up, and it is often used as a metaphor for eternal childhood, immortality, and escapism.

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.



Plato: Plato was Socrates' student. His most famous student is Aristotle.

The Republic: The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BC. In it, Socrates along with various Athenians and foreigners discuss the meaning of justice and examine whether or not the just man is happier than the unjust man by considering a series of different cities coming into existence "in speech", culminating in a city ruled by philosopher-kings; and by examining the nature of existing regimes.

Machiavellianism: Machiavellianism is, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, "the employment of cunning and duplicity in statecraft or in general conduct", deriving from the Italian Renaissance diplomat and writer Niccolò Machiavelli, who wrote Il Principe (The Prince), among other works.




Book of Revelation: The Book of Revelation, often known simply as Revelation or the Apocalypse, is the final book of the New Testament and occupies a central place in Christian eschatology. Written in Koine Greek, its title is derived from the first word of the text, apokalypsis, meaning "unveiling" or "revelation."

Apocalyptic literature: "Apocalypse" is a Greek word meaning "revelation", "an unveiling or unfolding of things not previously known and which could not be known apart from the unveiling. → ex: The Hunger Games

Survival of the fittest Mr. Darwin


Utopia/ Dystopia



Lord of the Flies→ allegory level

Allegory→ 用道德層面來當人物名字　Ex: Virgin

→ The Faerie Queene: The Faerie Queene is an incomplete English epic poem by Edmund Spenser. It is an allegorical work, and can be read on several levels of allegory, including as praise of Queen Elizabeth I.



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Parable: A parable is a succinct, didactic story, in prose or verse, which illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles. It differs from a fable in that fables employ animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature as characters, whereas parables have human characters.

Aesop’s Fables

短篇、道德教訓、非人類角色被賦予人類特質

Ex: The North wind and the Sun, The Fox and the Grapes



三大奇幻小說家: Ursula K. Le Guin, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis