Flashback Technique In Novels of William Golding

Anu  Shruti

Flashback Technique In Novels of William Golding

Exploration of Rationalism and Faith through Flashback Technique in William Golding's Novels

by Anu Shruti*,

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

Volume 7, Issue No. 13, Jan 2014, 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 technique, novels, William Golding, Pincher Martin, Free Fall, first person narrator, artist, Samuel Mountjoy, Dante's La Vita Nuova, love poems, rationalism, faith