Bringing it all Together

The time has come to look back on all three novels and see what brings them together in this little blog. How they all use inanity for one reason or another so lets take a look for a quick recap of what has already happened.


Hamlet
The use of your own insanity to get what you want from other people is what we see in this play. The lies told soon are reveled but the damage is already done and the lives that are affected by it are the ones who truly suffer the consequences. The insanity that started off as only a ploy to get the truth turns into a serious problem for all those involved.

Lord of the Flies
The lack of the social structure that the boys are so used to is the reason for their eventually decent into madness. While it is not the madness that can be seen in the other works it is more of a group trying to coup with the situation that they are left in by resorting to the basic imprint that is in all human beings and it is this instinct that keeps us going, either kill or be killed.

Heart of Darkness
This is a more drawn out view of insanity and it shows how the mind goes from the state of being perfectly ok to raving mad. Being faced with certain horrors the only solution could be to become the thing that you are fighting, whether it is a savage native or the cold hearted trader we do what we must to survive.


One of the links that I see tying these novels together would have to be the use of insanity to come to terms to the world around you. It seems that all these characters did was try to solve a problem they are faced with by bringing their minds to such a level that their opponent wouldn’t know how to handle them.