Study On The Image Of Matty In The William Golding's Darkness Visible

William Golding is one of the influential British writers around the world after World War ?. He has created many works in his whole life. He experienced the war in person and witnessed the cruelty of the war, which resulted in his consistent exploration of the evils of human nature in his works. His later works Darkness Visible continues the theme of the evil of human nature and manages to achieve breakthrough and change as well. By analyzing the image of the Matty, the author probes the complexity of human nature and humans' living conditions.Matty experiences the process of birth, the formation of ego, the building of prototype ego, the impact of mirror self, salvation and rebirth. He quests for his own spiritual face all his life by adopting a series of inexplicable ways. His accidental throwing out his shoes resulting in Henderson's death of falling out of the building is the only ray of light in this dark world. Matty continuously walks close to reality but consistently being marginalized. Therefore, Matty is a savior – the combination of being sacred and silly, a ordinary person – a compound of being kind and evil, a marginal man – a mixture of mystery and reality. The author uses the technique of the opposithon,thesymbolism and parody when shaping the image of Matty.Firstly, the use of antithesis exposes Matty's symmetric life – coming from fire and going out from fire, his appearance and his living environment. Secondly, the use of symbolization is embodied in Matty's name and his life course. Lastly, Matty's Christian image and the incidents of the prophets in the Bible form intertextuality.Matty's image of being kind and evil is a revelation to human nature. The image of mystery and reality reveals a kind of people survival crisis formed by representational crisis and faith crisis. The image of savior of being sacred and stupid represents humans' puzzles and questions to modern civilization: the inconsistence of the development of civilization and decaying of society, the discordance of rational science and religion.