Daniela Vasquez The book‚ “Lord of the Flies”‚ by William Golding‚ contains many characters that each symbolize something‚ one of them being Ralph who symbolizes structure and government. In the beginning of the book‚ Ralph was leader and everything was organized. Once Ralph’s position declines and Jack’s’ position rises‚ the children begin to become savages. Ralph is the most important character because once structure and government is lost‚ humans become savages and beasts. In the beginning
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The Disassembly of Government Lord of the Flies‚ a novel about a group of young British boy’s struggle for society and survival after their plane crashes on a deserted island. The boys slip into many forms of government while trapped. Their unstable government contributes to the ultimate fall from civilization to savagery. Golding’s characters‚ Jack‚ Ralph‚ and the littluns‚ carry attributes of the many forms of government and how the different types‚ totalitarianism‚ democracy‚ and socialism‚ affected
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William Golding‚ in his novel lord of the flies‚ implies that without the constraints of social order‚ people would descend into anarchy and chaos. Three examples in the text that demonstrate this idea are the conch‚ the character of jack‚ and the deaths of piggy and Simon. The conch is symbolic of the descent of social order between the boys. The conch is a shell that is capable of making a loud‚ attention grabbing noise‚ Piggy describes this noise by saying it “moo-ed like a cow”. It symbolizes
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risks people can push the fear aside but the fear will always be there. Fear can be very powerful and can lead societies to chaos. The biggest fears in the book were fears of dying and the fear of the unknown. Every body in the book had their own way of expressing their fear and what they had a fear of‚ but it was in everyone. In William Golding’s book The Lord of the Flies‚ fear is what eventually causes them to turn against each other until they are so paranoid about the beast that they kill one
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bedroom with no lights on. Would you be pretty scarce right? Thinking about the possible monsters under your bed or ghosts in your closet. But it’s not that these ghosts or monsters are actually there‚ it’s just the fear of the unknown. In the Lord of the Flies the characters are afraid of the unknown‚ which causes them to act differently‚ irrationally‚ and impulsively. The fear of the unknown causes fear. In LOTF‚ this is proven by how the children react to every little movement‚ noise‚ or dark outlining
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Important quotes‚ events Ralph 1) “boy with fair hair” 2) “mildness about his mouth and eyes that proclamined no devil” 3) “a stillness about Ralph as he sat that marked him out: there was his size‚ and attractive appearance; and most obscurely‚ yet most powerfully‚ there was the conch” 4) “all day I’ve been working with Simon. No one else.” 5) “the best thing we can do is to get ourselves rescued” -> PRIORITY 6) Ralph was a “specialist in thought” – “I cant think. Not like Piggy” 7) “The
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large amount of tension between the Soviet Union and the UK‚ or more particularly‚ Stalin and Churchill‚ during World War II‚ so "Reds" could simply show the British boys’ scorn for the Soviets. The island becomes a microcosm of the self-destructive society that sent them away. Their failure to create stability and decency mimics the larger failure of the grownups to do the same‚ and there is real ambiguity as to whether or not the children’s rescue by the naval cruiser at the end of the novel represents
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boring‚ but it is not. There is structure‚ order and no one is going around killing people. Out of them all‚ Piggy and Ralph still had an inkling of civilization in them‚ unlike the other boys who turned unrecognizable. Lord of the Flies by William Golding is about young British boys that are stranded on an island without adults and they turn into young savages. The most important theme in Lord of the Flies is the loss of civilization. The first example that civilization was starting to lack is disappearance
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a man’s own mind‚ it is not his enemy or foe‚ that lures him to evil ways.” In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies‚ this quote is proven true. When the plane of english boys crash lands on a deserted island and forces the group of boys to fend for themselves‚ it shows the true evil and society. It shows that evil is everywhere‚ inhabits everybody‚ and everything. There is no escaping evil no matter where you go or what path you take. In the novel‚ the boys convince themselves that they are not evil;
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rules about things. Ralph has an idea that they all catch onto quickly when he says‚ “Seems to me we ought to have a chief to decide things.”(Golding 22). He then starts to realize what happens when nobody wants to follow the rules and do whatever they want. Ralph says that‚ “The fire’s the most important thing. Without the fire we can’t be rescued.” (Golding 199). His idea and mindset until the end is keeping the fire going. Ralph knows at the end that it wasn’t all fun and games
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