LESSONS FROM THE LORD OF THE FLIES: PROTECTING STUDENTS FROM INTERNET THREATS AND CYBER HATE SPEECH

摘要

In William Golding's seminal work, the Lord of the Flies, he uses the plight of a group of British school children marooned on a deserted island to explore the nature of the human condition and the reflection of individual personality on society. Free from societal restraints in the form of adult supervision, a small group of school children quickly degenerates into shocking savagery. While Golding used this work to explore the defects in society as being traceable to defects in individual human nature, this same behavior can be seen today in the manner in which school children, freed from adult supervision by the anonymity of the Web, can quickly turn on one another with the same type of savagery demonstrated by Jack and the tribe toward Simon and Piggy.