William Golding A Rapist Essays - Rape, Laws Regarding Rape

William Golding: A Rapist? The Nobel laureate Sir William Golding, whose novel Lord of the Flies turned notions of childhood innocence on their head, admitted in private papers that he had tried to rape a 15-year-old girl during his teenage years, it emerged today. - The Huffington Post, Sep 16, 2009. William Golding the author of the boys book Lord of the Flies had tried to rape a girl. Rape: forced, unwanted sexual intercourse. Rape is never okay. It doesnt matter if it is from someone who is the same age as you to someone who could be your child or grandchild or someone who could be your mother or grandfather. Rape is unacceptable no matter who does it(or attempts to) to who is the victim. You may say its okay because they are the same age or close to the same age, no. Rape is never justifiable even if the person is drugged, dead, intoxicated, or just walking in the street with little clothes on. I saw online about this experiment and people were asked there was a woman outside and she wasnt wearing a top and got raped, is it justified? Almost all of them said yes, then the person said the girl was 5 and was raped by her father. All of them who said yes started immediately taking back what they had previously said and were now saying that it was wrong and unjustifiable. No, it would have been unjustifiable anyways. Celebrity Shia Lebeouf got raped by a women and kept silent and because he is a man and kept quiet for so long people are now saying that hes making it up. That is wrong, people who are raped go silent for a long time because they are scared of the judgement that comes with saying that they were raped. There should only be judgement on the person who attempted or did the crime. My hatred for him is not all because he didnt include women in his novel, other than the pig which could be taken extremely rudely. I understand why he didnt include women, because he is a male, he can not speak from a females point of view and do it correctly or easily because in some senses females and males are very different when it comes to the way some think, but, they are also vastly ranged in thoughts just in the one category or one being smarter or stronger or more of a leader. My hatred for him goes down deeper, as a woman who has not had to deal with rape but has heard enough about it that she is not allowed to go out at night because of the thought that she might get raped. Most men, especially teenagers and immature adults, are only scared of going to jail because they dont want to be raped or drop the soap. Some men do get raped out of jail and some men dont, some women get raped on the streets and some women dont. However, the risk for women is higher than the risk for men even though they could be wearing the exact same outfit but because women are supposed to be so conservative that if they go out in a revealing outfit they are basically waiting for the judgement to be put on them if they get raped because people will say you asked for it. No one asks to be raped. William Golding will always be, in my eyes, a terrible man because he attempted rape.