| Abstract | 第1-5页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第5-8页 |
| Introduction | 第8-15页 |
| Developmental Explorations of Human Nature in the West | 第8-9页 |
| William Golding and His Lord of the Flies | 第9-10页 |
| Critical Reception | 第10-15页 |
| Chapter One Heart of Darkness: the Formation of William Golding’s Disappointment with Man | 第15-21页 |
| ·The Experience with the Disastrous World War II | 第15-17页 |
| ·The Reading of Greek Tragedies | 第17-19页 |
| ·The Acceptance of “Original Sin” Advocated by Christianity | 第19-21页 |
| Chapter Two Reversion of Cannibals: the Failure of Reconstructing Civilizati | 第21-43页 |
| ·The Failure of Civilization and Its Realistic Projection | 第21-30页 |
| ·Ralph and Piggy—Indecisive Leader and His Advisor | 第21-26页 |
| ·Jack and Roger—the Displacement of Hitler and His Henchman | 第26-30页 |
| ·Other Boys—Representatives of Common People | 第30页 |
| ·Archetypes and the Predetermined Destiny of Protagonists | 第30-43页 |
| ·Jack—A Dionysian Devil | 第31-35页 |
| ·Ralph and Piggy—the Displacement of Apollonian-Pentheus | 第35-39页 |
| ·Simon—Christ-like Figure on the Island | 第39-43页 |
| Chapter Three Symbolic Images and Structure | 第43-53页 |
| ·Contrastive Images: the Conflict of Man’s Opposing Halves | 第43-47页 |
| ·Transformation of Circle: from Order to Chaos | 第43-45页 |
| ·Spectacles, Rock: a Reflection of Reversion to Savagery | 第45-47页 |
| ·Structural Alternation and Repetition: the Intensification of Savagery and Chaos | 第47-53页 |
| ·Alternate Emergence of Assembly and Mountain: a Contest between Democracy and Savagery | 第47-48页 |
| ·Nine Hunts: a Gradual Exposure of Human Nature—Evil and Degeneration | 第48-53页 |
| Conclusion | 第53-55页 |
| References | 第55-59页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第59-60页 |
