Influence of Flashback Narrations In the Literary Works of William Golding

Ramdeep Kaur

Influence of Flashback Narrations In the Literary Works of William Golding

Exploring the Conflict between Rationalism and Faith in William Golding's Free Fall

by Ramdeep Kaur*,

- Published in Journal of Advances and Scholarly Researches in Allied Education, E-ISSN: 2230-7540

Volume 5, Issue No. 9, Jan 2013, Pages 0 - 0 (0)

Published by: Ignited Minds Journals

ABSTRACT

Golding uses the flashback technique of Pincher Martin more extensivelyin his next novel, Free Fall (1959).Unlike his first three novels, FreeFall is told with a first person narrator, an artist named SamuelMountjoy. The novel takes as a model Dante's La Vita Nuova, a collection of love poems interspersed withDante's own commentary on the poems. Golding uses the character Mountjoy tocomment on the conflict between rationalism and faith.

KEYWORD

flashback narrations, literary works, William Golding, Pincher Martin, Free Fall, first person narrator, Samuel Mountjoy, Dante's La Vita Nuova, love poems, rationalism, faith