In William Golding's Lord of the Flies, we watch an island of British schoolboys try to burn everything down. There is fighting, killing, stealing, everything you don't want to mix with an island of 5-12 year old boys. They bully the weak, compete for dictatorship, brutally murder, the whole shebang. Though Lord of the Flies was set in 1954, I believe it gives a somewhat accurate perception of today's economy.
They used rules to establish a hierarchy, only for a rebelious group to try to bring it down. These movements of anarchy can be found anywhere and everywhere in modern culture today.
On the other hand, we have Tina Fey's "Mean Girls". It's a story about two groups of high school students who fight and bully each other, only to become friends in the end. "Mean Girls" takes place in a mainstream society high school in 2004. It's one of your stereotypical American high schools where people lower and debase themselves for the benefit of being deemed socially acceptable. There is fighting, gossip, backtalk, and drama. And yet, through all of the backstabbing, these teens learn an important lesson about innocence and competition.
These stories are very different, yet they both come with the same basic concept. The quest of human nature.
They used rules to establish a hierarchy, only for a rebelious group to try to bring it down. These movements of anarchy can be found anywhere and everywhere in modern culture today.
On the other hand, we have Tina Fey's "Mean Girls". It's a story about two groups of high school students who fight and bully each other, only to become friends in the end. "Mean Girls" takes place in a mainstream society high school in 2004. It's one of your stereotypical American high schools where people lower and debase themselves for the benefit of being deemed socially acceptable. There is fighting, gossip, backtalk, and drama. And yet, through all of the backstabbing, these teens learn an important lesson about innocence and competition.
These stories are very different, yet they both come with the same basic concept. The quest of human nature.