TORTURE AS A MANIFESTATION OF ALIENATION FROM THE SPIRITUAL AND DIVINE IN THE NOVEL PINCHER MARTIN BY WILLIAM GOLDING
TORTURE AS A MANIFESTATION OF ALIENATION FROM THE SPIRITUAL AND DIVINE IN THE NOVEL PINCHER MARTIN BY WILLIAM GOLDING

Summary/Abstract: The modern world, in which an individual is increasingly lost, questions the belief in religion and religious dogmas, resulting in suffering and torture. The novel Pincher Martin is concerned with exploring human nature through the representation of individual human tragedy and torture. Defying God and Heaven, Golding examines the limits of human selfishness as well as the immortality of the human spirit that is willing to fight even in hopeless situations. The choice between the divine and the earthly can often be tedious because of Golding’s standpoint that humans are evil by nature. The archetypal vision of a loner on a cliff who faces God reflects a new dimension of torture in the modern world.

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