Zoomorphism In Lord Of The Flies
The Wicked Within
When you think of Adolf Hitler, what are the first words that come to your mind? Maybe they are cruel, inhumane, or corrupt. The reality of every person is there is always a little bit of darkness inside our souls. What helps the darkness grow depends, but in Hitler’s situation, it was his hate and blame towards the Jewish people. In the book, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, when an airplane is shot down and crashes on an inhabited island with dozens of young boys ranging in ages six to twelve, they experience what the blackness in their hearts can do if influenced. The anger and resentment that bloomed in Adolf Hitler and the boys’ souls eventually consumed their morality …show more content…
This device means when humans show animal characteristics or act like them. After learning the truth of what has become of the savage boys, the traumatized Simon, went to the beach to explain it to them. When Simon arrived, they all thought he was the beast that the boys were afraid of. “At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt onto the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore”(153). The savages continued to attack Simon until he took his final breaths. “There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws”(153). The use of zoomorphism in these quotes show how the boys brutally murdered Simon as if he was killed by frenzied animals. The words “leapt onto, screamed, bit, and the tearing of teeth and claws” provide animal features to reveal the corruption within the boys as they remain stranded on the …show more content…
Being stuck on an uncolonized island and having no idea if they would be saved, drove the boys insane. As much as they tried to be civilized and to have structure as a whole, it failed because of the feeling of having power and the evil found within them. William Golding catches the children’s worst times of corruption and makes them significant by using the literary devices zoomorphism, imagery, and conflict. Always having compassion in our hearts is just as true as always having evil in our hearts because it is human nature. No one is completely righteous; we all have our
When you think of Adolf Hitler, what are the first words that come to your mind? Maybe they are cruel, inhumane, or corrupt. The reality of every person is there is always a little bit of darkness inside our souls. What helps the darkness grow depends, but in Hitler’s situation, it was his hate and blame towards the Jewish people. In the book, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, when an airplane is shot down and crashes on an inhabited island with dozens of young boys ranging in ages six to twelve, they experience what the blackness in their hearts can do if influenced. The anger and resentment that bloomed in Adolf Hitler and the boys’ souls eventually consumed their morality …show more content…
This device means when humans show animal characteristics or act like them. After learning the truth of what has become of the savage boys, the traumatized Simon, went to the beach to explain it to them. When Simon arrived, they all thought he was the beast that the boys were afraid of. “At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt onto the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore”(153). The savages continued to attack Simon until he took his final breaths. “There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws”(153). The use of zoomorphism in these quotes show how the boys brutally murdered Simon as if he was killed by frenzied animals. The words “leapt onto, screamed, bit, and the tearing of teeth and claws” provide animal features to reveal the corruption within the boys as they remain stranded on the …show more content…
Being stuck on an uncolonized island and having no idea if they would be saved, drove the boys insane. As much as they tried to be civilized and to have structure as a whole, it failed because of the feeling of having power and the evil found within them. William Golding catches the children’s worst times of corruption and makes them significant by using the literary devices zoomorphism, imagery, and conflict. Always having compassion in our hearts is just as true as always having evil in our hearts because it is human nature. No one is completely righteous; we all have our