The Mortal God on a Coral Island

At a Glance

This analysis reframes William Golding’s classic as a brutal laboratory of institutional design, where the failure of the “Conch” is not a moral collapse but a crisis of enforcement. By bridging Hobbesian political theory with trauma psychology, we explore how the “Beast” functions as a sophisticated governing instrument—proving that civilization is not the absence of the “Spear,” but its fragile domestication.