Английский язык. Ч. 1. Гималетдинова Г.К - 37 стр.

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cial, for it is here that Golding gives his abbreviated ironical summary of the ro-
mantic view of human progress. The passage needs analysis in depth (impossible
in an article of this length), but it should be pointed out that Golding has chosen
as explorers those who have dominated the history of man: the totalitarian, the
parliamentarian and the mystic-poet. And, as is clear from the text, Simon is the
realist of the triumvirate. When the boys examine the bushes on the mountain,
Simon accepts them for what they are. Ralph and Jack are concerned only with
how the buds can be used. That Golding’s figure of religious faith accepts reality
as it is provides an interesting comment on the limited approaches of the parlia-
mentarian and the dictator.
      As we follow Simon through the novel, we discover that he is the mystic who
separates himself from the others to ponder the mysteries of existence. Simon is the
carpenter who continues building the shelters after the other boys have abandoned
the work; Simon feeds the “littluns”; Simon encounters the beast in all its loathsome-
ness and does not succumb to the beast’s temptation to despair. This encounter is
the boy’s Gethsemane: he comes face to face with evil, recognizes it for what it is,
and, despite the agony and horror of the meeting, he is neither defeated nor intimi-
dated by it. Immediately after he recovers consciousness, he ascends the mountain
to free the dead pilot, whose parachute lines have become entangled in the rocks. In
other words, Simon climbs the mountain to free “fallen man”.
      He returns then to the boys to announce the good news; they need no
longer fear the beast. But the group will not listen to him. Like the One in whose
place he stands symbolically, Simon is murdered during a religious festival – the
diabolic liturgy of the pig. His death occurs while the island world cowers under
the lash of a gigantic storm. And it is only after Simon has actually died that the
dead man in the parachute is finally freed and washed out to sea, the sea which
is Golding’s symbol of mystery, not chaos.
      Finally, Simon has his symbolic hour of glorification: his body is surrounded
by “moonbeam-bodied creatures with fiery eyes”; gleaming in this unearthly
phosphorescence, he is carried gently out to sea. And it is difficult not to recog-
nize the hint of a resurrection motif here, for the pattern is that of the hero carried
through the waters to his apotheosis.

to elect smb as leader       to be concerned with          to abandon work
to explore                   religious faith               to come face to face with evil
crucial                      to provide                    to recover consciousness
abbreviated ironical sum-    limited approaches            to ascend the mountain
   mary                      to follow smb through the     to announce
to need analysis in depth        novel                     to be washed out to sea
to be pointed out            the mysteries of existence
     Задание 2. Сделайте письменный перевод текста Б.
                                    Teкст Б
                                 Word Meaning
     For much of the history of semantic studies, and still to a considerable extent
today, the investigation of meaning has been based on the relationships of refer-
ence and denotation. Certainly meaning includes the relations between utter-
ances and parts of utterances (e.g. words) and the world outside; and reference
and denotation are among such relations. But for the purposes of linguistics it is