Thinking+as+a+Hobby



Given the chance to arrange the headmaster's figurines, I would place them in the order shown above. I organized them so that the Venus would be placed independently, but with the leopard ready to pounce at her and so that Rodin's Thinker would be isolated from the other two. I imagine the Venus statue would represent the majority of people's personality types: content with their lives and comfortable with who they are. This group of people would not necessarily be happy because of their ignorance, as Golding might have believed, but because they are optimists. They are aware that the world is not perfect, which is why the Venus is facing the leopard, who represents relentless cynics who are ready to jump and hinder the mostly-happy lifestyle that the Venus represents. People that express this personality type are uncommon, fortunately. The third group, people like the Thinker devote much of their lives to thought and reason. The people in this category are often seen as introverts because they might be so caught up in the pursuit of knowledge that having many friends is secondary to them.